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Parks Council Records [Bulk Dates: ca. 1920s-1979]

Accession# 1989.002 ©2014 Columbia University Library

SUMMARY INFORMATION

Creator

Parks Council

Abstract

The Parks Council is a non-profit advocacy organization that promotes the

development, use, and maintenance of parks, playgrounds, community gardens, and

open space in New York City. This collection includes office papers,

correspondence, grant applications, reports, exhibitions materials, photographs,

printed materials, maps, and scrapbooks related to the work and interests of the

Parks Council in New York City.

Size

23 linear feet (in 23 archival boxes and 6 book cases)

Call number

D&A Parks Council ReCAP

Location

Department of Drawings and Archives

Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Room 213

Columbia University

1172 Amsterdam Ave., MC0301

New York, NY 10027

Arrangement and Description

The collection’s arrangement and description is maintained from the Parks Council’s

control at the time of transfer.

ACQUISITION AND APPRAISAL

Provenance and Acquisition

This collection was donated in 1989 by the Parks Council (Accession# 1989.002).

PARKS COUNCIL

Box/Folder Description

Box 1

Internal/Committees 1940s, civic groups, miscellany. Some materials from 1920s.

FOLDER 1 Borough Committees 1949 FOLDER 2 Sample Copies FOLDER 3 Notes for Board of Directors FOLDER 4 All Boro Committees FOLDER 5 Advisory Committees FOLDER 6 Nominating Committee FOLDER 7 W. Earle Andrews FOLDER 8 Baker FOLDER 9 Chadbourne FOLDER 10 Mrs. Robert E. Carew FOLDER 11 Board of Directors FOLDER 12 Mrs. D.L. Elliman FOLDER 13 Miss Ellen Horrmann FOLDER 14 James FOLDER 15 Kirby FOLDER 16 Laskrr FOLDER 17 Lyeth FOLDER 18 MacDonald FOLDER 19 Mand FOLDER 20 Meyer FOLDER 21 Parsons FOLDER 22 Savacool FOLDER 23 Shaw FOLDER 24 Sulzberger FOLDER 25 Leonard Sutter FOLDER 26 Warburg FOLDER 27 Co-Sponsor Meetings Luncheons – City Planning Commission FOLDER 28 Citizens’ Conference on City Planning FOLDER 29 Garden Council FOLDER 30 City Planning in NYC FOLDER 31 Citizens Union – City of NY FOLDER 32 National Garden Institute FOLDER 33 Museum of the City of New York FOLDER 34 New York Garden Club FOLDER 35 N.Y. Paint, Varnish & Lacquer Association FOLDER 36 Outdoor Cleanliness Association FOLDER 37 Data on Historic Sites, Museums etc. in New York City FOLDER 38 Lists of Names from Organization Directors Etal. – and

Acknowledgement Thereof FOLDER 39 Miscellaneous K FOLDER 40 Mrs. Lasker – Plantings FOLDER 41 Miscellaneous M FOLDER 42 Mayor’s Office FOLDER 43 Memberships – Prospects and Enrollments FOLDER 44 Members – Requests for Dues, etc. FOLDER 45 Memorials – Parks – Etc.- Miscellaneous Correspondence FOLDER 46 Miscellaneous FOLDER 47 The Municipal Art Society FOLDER 48 Miscellaneous A

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Internal/Committees 1940s, civic groups, miscellany. Some materials from 1920s. (cont.)

Box 1 (cont.)

FOLDER 51 Miscellaneous D FOLDER 52 Miscellaneous E FOLDER 53 Encroachments FOLDER 54 Flushing Meadow Meeting Empty Folder (Miscellaneous F) FOLDER 55 General Correspondence FOLDER 56 Miscellaneous G FOLDER 57 Miscellaneous H FOLDER 58 Miscellaneous N FOLDER 59 Miscellaneous P FOLDER 60 Personnel FOLDER 61 Promotion Matters FOLDER 62 Miscellaneous R FOLDER 63 Memberships – Promotional Work FOLDER 64 Members – Lists of FOLDER 65 Members – General Correspondence FOLDER 66 Pres Clippings – in Re Parks, Etc. FOLDER 67 Radio Broadcasts – October 16, 1945, October 23, 1945 FOLDER 68 Suggestions FOLDER 69 Unidentified FOLDER 70 Smoke Nuisance FOLDER 71 Street Tree Planting FOLDER 72 Survey – 1946 (Greater New York) FOLDER 73 Unidentified FOLDER 74 Tree Planting Inquiries FOLDER 75 Unidentified FOLDER 76 Trees – Memorials FOLDER 77 Unidentified FOLDER 78 Airline Delivery Service Co. (Messenger Service) FOLDER 79 War Memorial for N.Y. City FOLDER 80 American Institute of Architects FOLDER 81 Board Members (Resigned) FOLDER 82 Columbia Broadcasting Co. FOLDER 83 Conference House Associates Inc. FOLDER 84 Congress (Proposed) 1945 FOLDER 85 Lawrence Craner FOLDER 86 Mr. Kaufmann FOLDER 87 Regional Directors FOLDER 88 Susan Dannat Griffith – Bequest FOLDER 89 Sports Tournaments 1940-1943 FOLDER 90 Testimonials FOLDER 91 Park Department – Sports Tournaments 1944, 1945, 1946 FOLDER 92 Reorganization Data FOLDER 93 Resignations, 1946-1947 FOLDER 94 Van Swinderen – Testimonial FOLDER 95 Post-War Exhibit Meeting, May 11, 1944 FOLDER 96 Film Strips FOLDER 97 Miscellaneous W FOLDER 98 For File

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Individual Parks, 1940s. Alphabetical a-z, 1930s. Miscellany, 1960s. Internal Governance, 1950s.

Box 2 FOLDER 1 Washington Square Park FOLDER 2 Bronx Committee FOLDER 3 Harlem Committee FOLDER 4 Borough of Queens FOLDER 5 Brooklyn Committee – Mrs. Tracy S. Voorhees, Chairman FOLDER 6 Private and Parochial Schools FOLDER 7 Mrs. Sulzberger’s Luncheon – October 7 FOLDER 8 Borough of Brooklyn FOLDER 9 Register of Information – Information and Price Lists FOLDER 10 Borough of Richmond FOLDER 11 Mrs. Pratt’s List of Contributors FOLDER 12 B FOLDER 13 C FOLDER 14 D FOLDER 15 E FOLDER 16 F FOLDER 17 G FOLDER 18 N FOLDER 19 O FOLDER 20 P FOLDER 21 J FOLDER 22 L FOLDER 23 K FOLDER 24 I FOLDER 25 H FOLDER 26 M FOLDER 27 R FOLDER 28 Q FOLDER 29 1953 – 100

th Central Park

FOLDER 30 W FOLDER 31 V FOLDER 32 U FOLDER 33 S FOLDER 34 T FOLDER 35 Background FOLDER 36 Kaplan Correspondence FOLDER 37 Reports FOLDER 38 Western Town FOLDER 39 Design FOLDER 40 Neighborhood Improvement Committee 67-68 FOLDER 41 Projects and Proposals – Sidewalk of NY Symposium FOLDER 42 Projects: NYCHA Playground Design FOLDER 43 Projects and Proposals – Central Park Book FOLDER 44 Projects and Proposals – Sculpture Exhibition FOLDER 45 Projects and Proposals – Christmas Card Project FOLDER 46 Projects: Educational Program FOLDER 47 1958-1960 FOLDER 48 Park Association 1960 FOLDER 49 Meyer, Charles G., 1957-1959

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Individual Parks, 1940s. Alphabetical a-z, 1930s. Miscellany, 1960s. Internal Governance, 1950s. (cont.)

Box 2 (cont.) FOLDER 52 P.A.: Board Minutes and Agendas FOLDER 53 Vest Pocket Parks – 128

th Street

FOLDER 54 Garden Committee FOLDER 55 Junior High School Park Projects FOLDER 56 Street Tree Committee Individual Parks, 1960s. Alphabetical 1940s-1960s. Individual Parks,

1930s-1960s Box 3 FOLDER 1 Vest Pocket Parks FOLDER 2 R.C.A.A. Cultural Affairs FOLDER 3 Queens: Jamaica Bay FOLDER 4 Breezy Point FOLDER 5 Unidentified FOLDER 6 Neighborhood Development Committee FOLDER 7 Central Park FOLDER 8 Theatre District FOLDER 9 Castle Clinton – Battery Park FOLDER 10 Seton Hospital FOLDER 11 Beach Front Properties FOLDER 12 Jetport FOLDER 13 Ward’s Island FOLDER 14 Esplanade FOLDER 15 Neponsit Hospital Site FOLDER 16 39A. Playground Pelham Bay FOLDER 17 98A. Playground Fort Schuyler FOLDER 18 G. Conference House Park FOLDER 19 Washington Square Park – Zoning Laws FOLDER 20 Harlem River Playground and Park, Lenox Avenue – 143

rd and 145

th

Streets FOLDER 21 Ecology Courses 1959 – Riverdale FOLDER 22 91. East Bronx Shore Drive FOLDER 23 8. Bryant Park (2) FOLDER 24 High Bridge Park FOLDER 25 49D. Jacob Riis Playground FOLDER 26 23. King Park FOLDER 27 Richmond Town FOLDER 28 86. Memorial Field of Flushing FOLDER 29 Museum of Natural History. Museum of Health in Flushing Meadow FOLDER 30 Hanover Square FOLDER 31 31. Wolfe’s Pond Park FOLDER 32 98I. Fort Schuyler Park FOLDER 33 Brooklyn War Memorial FOLDER 34 98C. Fort Schuyler Park FOLDER 35 98E. Fort Schuyler Park FOLDER 36 16. Marine Park, Staten Island FOLDER 37 46. South Beach (Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk and Beach) FOLDER 38 1. Aqueduct Lands FOLDER 39 2. Bronx Park FOLDER 40 15. Joseph Rodman Drake Park

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Box 3 (cont.) FOLDER 41

Individual Parks, 1960s. Alphabetical 1940s-1960s. Individual Parks, 1930s-1960s (cont.)

16. Marine Park. 16A. Recreation Area

(Empty Folder): 16. Owen F. Dolen Park (Empty Folder): 17. Echo Park (Empty Folder): 17A. Echo Park Playground FOLDER 42 21. Cunningham Park (Hillside Park) FOLDER 43 39. Pelham Bay Park (Empty Folder): 18. Triangle FOLDER 44 19. Ewen Park FOLDER 45 20. Fort Independence Park Playground FOLDER 46 26. Hines Park FOLDER 47 27. Hunts Point Park FOLDER 48 28. Joyce Kilmer Park FOLDER 49 29. James J. Lyons Square (Playground) FOLDER 50 30. Macomb’s Dam Park FOLDER 51 30.B Plot #2 R.A. and Field House FOLDER 52 33. Mosholu Parkway (Empty Folder): 33B. Mosholu Parkway Recreation Area FOLDER 53 34. John Mullaly Park (Macomb’s Dam Ext.) FOLDER 54 34A. John Mullaly Park Playground FOLDER 55 35. Maurice Muller Park Individual Parks, 1930s -1950s. Manhattan Playgrounds, same

period. Internal Governance Materials 1960s. Box 4 FOLDER 1 Mayoralty Candidates – Pledges, etc. FOLDER 2 39D. Isaac Rice Memorial Stadium FOLDER 3 92. Van Cortlandt Park FOLDER 4 39C. Split Rock Golf Course FOLDER 5 40. Poe Park FOLDER 6 41A. Pulaski Park Playground FOLDER 7 43. George P. Ryan Square FOLDER 8 44. St. James Park FOLDER 9 45. St. Mary’s Park FOLDER 10 46. Seton Falls Park FOLDER 11 47. Franz Sigel Park FOLDER 12 87. Louis Zimmerman Playground (W.M.) FOLDER 13 92A. Van Cortlandt Recreation Area FOLDER 14 92E. Van Cortlandt Recreation Field FOLDER 15 94. Washington Bridge Park FOLDER 16 102. Vincent Ciccarone Playground FOLDER 17 126. Ferry Point Park FOLDER 18 104. Williams Bridge Playground FOLDER 19 113. Playground – Permit Board of Education FOLDER 20 118. Sound View Park FOLDER 21 119. Mott Haven Health Center Playground FOLDER 22 Queens FOLDER 23 2. Anawanda Park FOLDER 24 3. Ashmead Park FOLDER 25 4. Astoria Park FOLDER 26 4B. Astoria Park Swimming Pool

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Individual Parks, 1930s -1950s. Manhattan Playgrounds, same period. Internal Governance Materials 1960s. (cont.)

5. Baisley Pond Park

FOLDER 28 6. Bowne Park FOLDER 29 7. Bays Water Park FOLDER 30 8. Brookville Park FOLDER 31 9. College point Shore Front Park (Chisholm Park) FOLDER 32 15. Forest Park FOLDER 33 12. Crocheron Park FOLDER 34 14. Playground – Astoria Heights Recreation Park FOLDER 35 20. Highland Park FOLDER 36 93. Van Nest Memorial Park FOLDER 37 Prince’s Bay FOLDER 38 Van Cortlandt Park- Freshwater Swamp FOLDER 39 Park Association Materials FOLDER 40 Central Park Tavern on the Green Controversy FOLDER 41 Park Association Photos 1942 FOLDER 42 Tompkins Square Park FOLDER 43 Advertising Publicity FOLDER 44 Circular Letters and Form Letters FOLDER 45 45. John Andrews Playground FOLDER 46 Unidentified FOLDER 47 Morningside Park Gymnasium FOLDER 48 Unidentified FOLDER 49 City Hall Park FOLDER 50 Highbridge Nursery – Macomb’s Dam Park FOLDER 51 Martyrs’ Monument FOLDER 52 Park Association (Historical) FOLDER 53 Bedloes’ Island FOLDER 54 Park Department – Robert Moses FOLDER 55 Park Department – Miscellaneous FOLDER 56 Park Association, January 8, 1961 – February 25, 1961 FOLDER 57 Unidentified – March 1, 1968 to June 30, 1968 FOLDER 58 The Parks Council – Statements, September 1966 to March 1967

(Central Park Maintenance/ED.Project) FOLDER 59 Recreation Study Outline FOLDER 60 Completed Booklet and Information Requests FOLDER 61 Rugby - May 1970 to November 1970 FOLDER 62 Park Department – Charter Revisions FOLDER 63 By-Laws and Certificate of Incorporation Internal Materials, 1950s-1960s. Clips, documents, lawsuit – 1930s.

Chronological files, 1960s. Projects/Proposals, 1960s. Box 5 FOLDER 1 Parks Association – Seymour FOLDER 2 To Be Filed Corporation FOLDER 3 Rugby Adv. Playground Receipts May 23 to July 26, 1971 to August

12. Rugby May 24, 1971 to September 3, 1971 FOLDER 4 General Listing Boro Committees FOLDER 5 Minutes 1928-1937 FOLDER 6 Parks Council – Office Equipment Information FOLDER 7 Records – By-Laws, Purpose, Certificate of Incorporation

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Internal Materials, 1950s-1960s. Clips, documents, lawsuit – 1930s. Chronological files, 1960s. Projects/Proposals, 1960s. (cont.)

Park Association Projects: Exhibits

FOLDER 9 Parks and Playgrounds Association of City of New York – Dissolution Certificate

FOLDER 10 CV: International Nature Conservancy FOLDER 11 President, Park Association FOLDER 12 1958 FOLDER 13 By-Laws (With Revisions) FOLDER 14 News Releases 1960-1961 FOLDER 15 1961 (Some Earlier Material) P.A. for Filing FOLDER 16 1960 FOLDER 17 Minutes – May 1948 to December 8, 1953 FOLDER 18 The Parks Council – Correspondence April through June 1967 FOLDER 19 November 1 through December 31, 1967 – Correspondence FOLDER 20 The Parks Council – Correspondence September 1 through October

31, 1967 FOLDER 21 5. Battery Park FOLDER 22 Unidentified (Brooklyn College – Patricia Riddell) FOLDER 23 Miscellaneous Pamphlets, News Releases, Speeches, etc. FOLDER 24 Unidentified FOLDER 25 Central Park Association – Minutes of Meetings – Statements –

History of Central Park FOLDER 26 1926 FOLDER 27 1928 FOLDER 28 Unidentified FOLDER 29 (1927) FOLDER 30 Projects: Olmstead and Vaux Memorial FOLDER 31 Projects and Proposals – Pratt Conference – Park Planning – April 29,

1965 FOLDER 32 Projects and Proposals – Do-It-Yourself Play Equipment FOLDER 33 Projects and Proposals – Guide to the City Parks FOLDER 34 Projects and Proposals – Vandalism Contest Internal Materials, 1930s. Awards/Correspondence/Budget, 1930s.

Miscellany, 1930s-1950s. Internal Material, 1940s. Box 6 FOLDER 1 Park Association – Administrative Ideas and Saw FOLDER 2 History of Parks Council – Annual Reports (1939) FOLDER 3 History of Parks Council – Park Tours 1953-1963 FOLDER 4 1941 FOLDER 5 Unidentified: Mrs. Kelly ay Zoo FOLDER 6 Awards of Park Association – History of Parks Council – 1947-1956 FOLDER 7 Unidentified FOLDER 8 Unidentified FOLDER 9 Awards Committee – Test. Award of Merit, 1938 FOLDER 10 Presentation – Awards 1939. May 23, 1939. Tavern on the Green FOLDER 11 Unidentified FOLDER 12 OCSH Memorial Test FOLDER 13 Unidentified FOLDER 14 Special Reports FOLDER 15 Unidentified

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Internal Materials, 1930s. Awards/Correspondence/Budget, 1930s. Miscellany, 1930s-1950s. Internal Material, 1940s. (cont.)

Miscellaneous Park Reports

FOLDER 17 Unidentified: Concession Photographs and Negatives FOLDER 18 Board Meeting – May 6, 1952 FOLDER 19 121A. B.C. Playground FOLDER 20 Tuckerman Luncheon FOLDER 21 Resignations FOLDER 22 Carrousel, Central Park FOLDER 23 Publicity FOLDER 24 Bank of the Manhattan Company FOLDER 25 Water Pollution FOLDER 26 Bronx Borough Committee FOLDER 27 Unidentified FOLDER 28 Complaints FOLDER 29 Clean-up Campaign FOLDER 30 Central Park Clippings FOLDER 31 Sewage and Pollution Clippings FOLDER 32 Playground Extension FOLDER 33 Press Releases FOLDER 34 Unidentified FOLDER 35 Theatre 1959 – Testimonials and Scrolls FOLDER 36 Membership Prospects FOLDER 37 Delinquent Notices FOLDER 38 Unidentified FOLDER 39 School and Leisure – May 14-22, 1952 FOLDER 40 Unidentified FOLDER 41 News Clips – 1951-1952 FOLDER 42 Regional Directors – Central Park 1953 FOLDER 43 Andrews, W. Earle FOLDER 44 William M. Chadbourne FOLDER 45 Peter Grimm FOLDER 46 Unidentified FOLDER 47 Sutter, Leonard L. FOLDER 48 Form Letters FOLDER 49 Form Letters FOLDER 50 Miscellaneous G FOLDER 51 Miscellaneous H FOLDER 52 Hamilton Grange FOLDER 53 Mary Lander’s Memorial FOLDER 54 Moses, Robert FOLDER 55 Records: Financial Past FOLDER 56 Annual Meeting January 14, 1941 (Board of Directors) FOLDER 57 Annual Meeting January 12, 1943 FOLDER 58 Nomination Committee 1941 FOLDER 59 Money Received – Circular Letters FOLDER 60 Board Meeting Minutes, etc. 1958 FOLDER 61 Executive Directors – 1956. Miscellaneous for Filing FOLDER 62 Resignations FOLDER 63 Unidentified

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Newsclips, 1940s. Internal, 1940s. Water Pollution, 1948. Major Deegan. Vandalism, 1939-1943. Parks Council Tours, 1940s-1950s.

Box 7 FOLDER 1 Unidentified: (Long Island Press July 2, 1940) FOLDER 2 Department of Parks – First Annual Sports Tournament 1940 FOLDER 3 Unidentified: (Within Legacy) FOLDER 4 Unidentified FOLDER 5 Membership Drive – Lists and Letters. Board of Directors, Committee

Members FOLDER 6 Definitely Committed Letters – A to K FOLDER 7 Definitely Committed Letters – L to Z FOLDER 8 Final Commitments List FOLDER 9 Unidentified: (The Municipal Art Society of New York) FOLDER 10 Park Association of New York City, Inc. FOLDER 11 Membership FOLDER 12 Board Meetings – Minutes, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948 FOLDER 13 Annual Meeting – January 1947, February 1948 FOLDER 14 Annual Meeting – January 1946 FOLDER 15 Board Meetings – Notices to Directors – 1946, 1947, 1948 FOLDER 16 Annual Meeting – January 1945 FOLDER 17 Parks – Complaints Regarding Vandalism FOLDER 18 Deegan Expressway Through Van Cortlandt Park FOLDER 19 Water Pollution FOLDER 20 Parks – Vandalism – 1930 to March 1, 1943 FOLDER 21 Vandalism FOLDER 22 Prospect Park FOLDER 23 Five of Int. Education FOLDER 24 Staten Island Tour, June 21, 1950 FOLDER 25 Staten Island Tour, St. 1 – June 24, 1952 FOLDER 26 Brooklyn Tour, June 5, 1951 FOLDER 27 Bronx Park Tour, 1951 FOLDER 28 Tours – Bronx, October 2, 1946 FOLDER 29 Queens Tour, May 18, 1954 FOLDER 30 Unidentified: (Park Association of New York City – Tour of Brooklyn

Parks) FOLDER 31 Queens Tour, September 20, 1950 FOLDER 32 Unidentified FOLDER 33 1953, June 29 – Water Trip (Inquiries Regarding Tour s and General

Information FOLDER 34 Manhattan Water Tour, July 19, 1950 FOLDER 35 Idlewild Water Tour, 1946 FOLDER 36 Brooklyn Tour FOLDER 37 Unidentified: (Starts “Tours” Folder) FOLDER 38 Water Tour, 1947 FOLDER 39 Staten Island Tour, June 1947 FOLDER 40 Unidentified: (Tour of Parks in Northern Manhattan Park Association

of New York) FOLDER 41 Manhattan Tour, June 6, 1952 FOLDER 42 Brooklyn, 1957 FOLDER 43 Unidentified: (Annual Tour of New York City Parks) FOLDER 44 Unidentified

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Park Council Tours, 1930s. Internal/Financial/Celebrations, 1930s-1940s. Theatre Benefits, 1950s.

Box 8 FOLDER 1 1931 FOLDER 2 Brooklyn Park Tour, September 1937 FOLDER 3 Manhattan Water Tour, 1948 FOLDER 4 Queens Tour, 1947 – N-A FOLDER 5 Membership Dues Miscellany, Statements regarding Receipts,

Delinquents, etc. FOLDER 6 Borough Luncheon, Second Membership Drive – Queens – N-A FOLDER 7 Borough Dinner – Staten Island – N-A FOLDER 8 Form Letters FOLDER 9 Third Annual Forum, 1947 FOLDER 10 Hunter College – Moses Meeting – October 23, 1945 FOLDER 11 Hunter College Meeting 1945 FOLDER 12 Forum – Second Annual FOLDER 13 Citizens Golden Anniversary Planting Programs – Printing FOLDER 14 Unidentified FOLDER 15 Unidentified: (Statements of Account – Park Association of New

York) FOLDER 16 Col. Chadbourne – Treas. FOLDER 17 Bank of Manhattan Co. – Deposits FOLDER 18 Mr. Lockwood (Mr. Baker’s Office) FOLDER 19 Auditor’s Report FOLDER 20 Benart Mail Service Inc. (Ticket Printing) FOLDER 21 Board Luncheons FOLDER 22 De-Fi Manufacturing Company FOLDER 23 Gramercy Stationary Co. FOLDER 24 “Paid” Bills – 1939 to 1944-1948 – Office Equipment – Stationary –

Lunches – Etc. FOLDER 25 Hooven Letters, Inc. FOLDER 26 Miscellaneous Expenses FOLDER 27 Golden Jubilee Receipts FOLDER 28 Golden Jubilee FOLDER 29 Leases FOLDER 30 Owen Petersen & Co. FOLDER 31 Office Supplies – Furniture – Typewriter – etc. and Moving FOLDER 32 Petty Cash – 1944 to 1946 FOLDER 33 Pine Hill Crystal Spring Water Co. FOLDER 34 Printing and Multigraphing Stationary FOLDER 35 Rent and Light FOLDER 36 Stocks FOLDER 37 Unidentified FOLDER 38 Tel. & Tel. FOLDER 39 Towel Supply (Empty Folder): Unpaid Bills – Current Month FOLDER 40 Mortimer J. Palmer, 1945 FOLDER 41 Mortimer J. Palmer, 1946 FOLDER 42 Unidentified FOLDER 43 Memorandums from Mr. Cormier FOLDER 44 Markers FOLDER 45 Unidentified: (Golden Anniversary)

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Park Council Tours, 1930s. Internal/Financial/Celebrations, 1930s-1940s. Theatre Benefits, 1950s. (cont.)

Mr. Baker Regarding C.S.A.P. Programs

FOLDER 47 Unidentified FOLDER 48 Theatre Benefit – 1955 FOLDER 49 Theatre Benefit Coronet Theatre “Quadrille” – December 8, 1954 FOLDER 50 1958 (Friday, December 7) 1956 Theatre Benefit FOLDER 51 138. 1953 – Theatre Party FOLDER 52 1952 – Theatre Benefit (Records) FOLDER 53 1951 – Theatre Benefit “Sigi” FOLDER 54 Theatre Benefit “Bless You All” 1950 Miscellaneous, 1960 and earlier. E.g.: Breezy Point, Ruppert

Greening, TBTA, Federal Land and Water Conservation. Box 9 FOLDER 1 Parks Council General: Civic Organizations - National - American

Institute of Architects FOLDER 2 Bronx County Historical Society Museum of Bronx History FOLDER 3 BN – Council for Parks & Playgrounds – Brooklyn Chapter FOLDER 4 Parks Council General: Civic Organizations – Local – City Walls FOLDER 5 Parks Council General: Civic Organizations – National – National

Trust for Historic Preservation FOLDER 6 New York Urban Coalition FOLDER 7 Open Space Action Committee FOLDER 8 BN – Brooklyn Arts and Culture Association (BACA) FOLDER 9 Parks Council General: Open Space Planning Council FOLDER 10 Public Agency – Operation Better Block FOLDER 11 Parks Council General: (Environmental ED.) Mohonk Conference FOLDER 12 Parks Council General: (Fifth Avenue Widening) FOLDER 13 Parks Council General: (Films) FOLDER 14 Parks Council General: Fireworks FOLDER 15 BN – Canarsie Beach Park – Community Organizations FOLDER 16 Gateway FOLDER 17 Parks Council General: (Gateway – Breezy Point) A FOLDER 18 Parks Council General: (Gateway – Breezy Point) B FOLDER 19 Parks Council General: (Scenic Hudson Preservation – Storm King) FOLDER 20 Staten Island: Greenbelt, 1965-1969 FOLDER 21 Parks Council General: (Greening of Ruppert) C FOLDER 22 New York City Government Planning Commission FOLDER 23 New York City Government (City Planning) 81 75,000 Study FOLDER 24 New York City Landmarks FOLDER 25 New York City Agency. Model Cities FOLDER 26 New York City Government PRCA – Legislation FOLDER 27 New York City Government Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority FOLDER 28 New York City Government PRCA – Recreation Co-Ordinating Board FOLDER 29 New York City Government PRCA General (B) FOLDER 30 Agency – New York State Natural Beauty Commission FOLDER 31 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation –

Environmental Management Councils FOLDER 32 New York State Office of Planning FOLDER 33 Government: New York State Tri-State Transportation Commission FOLDER 34 Government: Federal Land and Water Conservation

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Minutes, Board of Directors, 1967-1972. Matching Program, 1976, 1970s (Notebooks).

Box 10 Matching Program FOLDER 1 Applications Inactive, Rejected or Withdrawn – Bronx, Queens,

Staten Island, Brooklyn FOLDER 2 Chronological Correspondence, January 6 through December 31, 1975 FOLDER 3 Original Bids from Contractors (There is also a duplicate book).

Notebook for Special Projects such as Jefferson Market Greening, original bids are in those files

FOLDER 4 Copies of Original Bids form Contractors. (There is a book containing originals) Notebook for Special Projects such as Jefferson Market Greening, original bids are in those files

FOLDER 5 Chronological Correspondence, June 13 through December 30, 1974 FOLDER 6 Applications Inactive, Rejected and Withdrawn – Manhattan Only FOLDER 7 Chronological File – December 24, 1975-1976 Minutes FOLDER 8 June 1968 to May 1969 – Financial Report – Year Ended April 30,

1969 – New Members – In Fiscal Year May 1, 1968 to April 30, 1969

FOLDER 9 June 1970 to June 1971 – Financial Report – Year Ended April 30, 1971

FOLDER 10 October 1969 to June 1970 FOLDER 11 June 1967 to May 1968 FOLDER 12 September 1971 to June 1972 FOLDER 13 August 1972 to June 1973 Miscellaneous/Recreation 1960s. Box 11 FOLDER 1 Unidentified: New Ideas for City Playground FOLDER 2 Parks Council General: (Recreation and the Schools) A FOLDER 3 Parks Council General: (Recreation and the Schools) B FOLDER 4 Parks Council General: (Recreation and the Schools) C FOLDER 5 Parks Council General: (Recreation and the Schools Decentralization

Statement) FOLDER 6 Parks Council General: (Recreation: Indoor) FOLDER 7 Parks Council General: (Roofs) FOLDER 8 Unidentified FOLDER 9 Parks Council General Agencies. Private – Pratt Center for

Community Improvement FOLDER 10 Parks Council General: (Recreation) FOLDER 11 Parks Council General: Recreation – Bibliography Material FOLDER 12 Parks Council General: Recreation – Council for Children’s Play FOLDER 13 Parks Council General: (Small Urban Spaces) FOLDER 14 Parks Council General: (Stolports) FOLDER 15 Parks Council General: (Store Front Facility – Play Street) A FOLDER 16 Parks Council General: (Store Front Facility – Play Street) B FOLDER 17 Parks Council General: (Store Front Facility – Play Street) C FOLDER 18 Unidentified FOLDER 19 Parks Council General: (Tree Planting) 1970 and Before FOLDER 20 Unidentified FOLDER 21 Funding for Window Box Program FOLDER 22 Unidentified

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Miscellaneous/Recreation 1960s. (cont.) Parks Council General White Papers – 1965

FOLDER 24 Parks Council General White Papers – 1969 FOLDER 25 Parks Council General: (Window Boxes) Bedford – Stuyvesant

Project Annual Events, Chronological Files, 1970s. Box 12 FOLDER 1 Chronological – August 1977 FOLDER 2 Chronological – July 1977 FOLDER 3 Chronological – June 1977 FOLDER 4 Chronological – May 1977 FOLDER 5 Chronological – July 1977 FOLDER 6 Chronological – April 1977 FOLDER 7 Chronological – March 1977 FOLDER 8 Chronological – February 1977 FOLDER 9 Chronological – January 1977 FOLDER 10 Chronological – December 1976 FOLDER 11 Union Carbide Exhibit Layout FOLDER 12 Union Carbide Reception – 1977 FOLDER 13 Mitchell Moss Report – NYC Waterfront – 1976 FOLDER 14 Parks Council Statements (1969) FOLDER 15 Parks Council Statements (1966, 1967) FOLDER 16 Parks Council General: Sea Grant Advisory Service FOLDER 17 Sea Grant – 1977-1978 – (Contract, Please Go Near the Water) FOLDER 18 Sea Grant – 1978-1979 – Please Go Near the Water FOLDER 19 Sea Grant 0 Workshops Contract FOLDER 20 Parks Council General: (Sea Ventures) FOLDER 21 North Shore Study / Queens FOLDER 22 Parks Council General: (Annual Events 1975), Track Meet 1975 FOLDER 23 Parks Council General: (Annual Events 1974), Track Meet 1974 FOLDER 24 Parks Council General: (City Park Meet, 1973), Track Meet FOLDER 25 Parks Council General: (Annual Events) 1974, Wall Street Flower

Show (Publicity) FOLDER 26 Parks Council General: (Annual Events) 1973, Wall Street Flower

Show (General) FOLDER 27 Parks Council General: (Annual Events) Publicity (1973, Wall Street

Flower Show) FOLDER 28 Parks Council General: (Annual Events) 1973, Wall Street Flower

Show (Thank You Letters) FOLDER 29 Parks Council General: (Annual Events) 1973, Wall Street Flower

Show (Fund Solicitation Letters) FOLDER 30 Parks Council General: (Annual Events) 1973, Wall Street Flower

Show (Thank You For Contributions) FOLDER 31 Parks Council General: (Annual Events) 1972, Wall Street Flower

Show FOLDER 32 Wall Street Flower Show Contributions Lists FOLDER 33 Parks Council General: (Photos) 3

rd Wall Street Flower Show

FOLDER 34 Parks Council General: (Photos) 4th

Wall Street Flower Show FOLDER 35 Parks Council General: (Annual Events) 1974, Wall Street Flower

Show (Community Groups Thank Yous)

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Annual Events, Chronological Files, 1970s. (cont.) Parks Council General: (Annual Event) 1974, Flower Show (Negative

Responses) FOLDER 37 Parks Council General: (Annual Event) 1974 Flower Show

(Solicitations Letters) FOLDER 38 Parks Council General: (Annual Event) 1974 Flower Show (Thank

You Letters) FOLDER 39 Parks Council General: (Annual Event) 1974 Wall Street Flower

Show (General) Volunteers, 1970s. Jefferson Market. Box 13 FOLDER 1 Manhattan West Village Committee FOLDER 2 MP Community Board #2 – Jefferson Market Greening –

URS/Madigan-Praeger FOLDER 3 Empty Folder: (1981 – Jefferson Market Garden) FOLDER 4 M-86 Jefferson Market Greening – File 2 of 3 – Sub. 7 FOLDER 5 M-86 Jefferson Market Greening Drawings – Sub. 7 – File 3 of 3 FOLDER 6 File 1 of 3 – MP Community Board #2 – Jefferson Market Greening –

M-86 FOLDER 7 Volunteers FOLDER 8 Empty Folder: (1978) FOLDER 9 Fan Mail FOLDER 10 Guidelines Request Form FOLDER 11 Vital Records – Save for Reports FOLDER 12 1978 Volunteer Program FOLDER 13 Volunteer Program – 1977-1978 FOLDER 14 Volunteer Projects Pending – Fall 1978 FOLDER 15 Seeking Project – 1977 FOLDER 16 Evaluation of 5 model District FOLDER 17 Press Release: Many Beame FOLDER 18 1978 Project List FOLDER 19 Press Release: 10,000 Flowering Plants for City Parks FOLDER 20 Volunteer Program – General FOLDER 21 Volunteer Events – 1978 FOLDER 22 Publicity FOLDER 23 1977 (Empty Folder) FOLDER 24 Project Lists FOLDER 25 Publicity FOLDER 26 Community Improvements Committee FOLDER 27 Dear Official July 25 FOLDER 28 Invoices – Parks Council Orders Only FOLDER 29 Unidentified FOLDER 30 Recognition Event – 1977 FOLDER 31 Empty Folder: (1976) FOLDER 32 1976 Volunteer Program – Project Lists FOLDER 33 Recognition of Volunteers – Celebration and Awards for

Neighborhood Preservation – October 28, 1976 FOLDER 34 Submissions to DPR – Chronological Orders Placed by DPR – By

Project

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Box 14

New York State Council on the Arts, 1970s

FOLDER 1 New York State Council on the Arts – 1978-1979 Application FOLDER 2 New York State Council on the Arts – Submission – UIP – 1974-1975 FOLDER 3 New York State Council on the Arts – 1979-1980 Application FOLDER 4 New York State Council on the Arts – 1979-1980 – Financial Papers FOLDER 5 New York State Council on the Arts – 1980-1981 – Application

Folder 1 FOLDER 6 New York State Council on the Arts – 1975-1976 Submission FOLDER 7 New York State Council on the Arts – 1976-1977 FOLDER 8 New York State Council on the Arts – 1977-1978 FOLDER 9 New York State Council on the Arts – Application – 1977 – Copy FOLDER 10 New York State Council on the Arts – 1979 FOLDER 11 New York State Council on the Arts – Jamaica Bay. Attachments with

Application FOLDER 12 New York State Council on the Arts – 1978-1979 Application (File

Copy) New York State Council on the Arts, Other Fundraising, 1960s-

1970s. Box 15 FOLDER 1 J. H. Taylor Management Company FOLDER 2 Technip International Inc. FOLDER 3 Tetley Inc. FOLDER 4 Texas Gulf Inc. FOLDER 5 J. Walter Thompson Co. FOLDER 6 Tiffany FOLDER 7 Tishman Realty and Construction FOLDER 8 Tolson and Co. FOLDER 9 Touche Ross and Co. FOLDER 10 Trans World Airlines FOLDER 11 The Corporation of Trinity Church FOLDER 12 Turner Construction Company FOLDER 13 UMC Industries Inc. FOLDER 14 Union Pacific Corp. FOLDER 15 United Mutual Savings Bank FOLDER 16 United States Lines Inc. FOLDER 17 United States Tobacco Publications FOLDER 18 United States Trust Company FOLDER 19 Uniworld Group FOLDER 20 Ups N’ Downs Inc. FOLDER 21 Us Magazine FOLDER 22 Vikeship FOLDER 23 Viking Penguin, Inc. (Empty) FOLDER 24 Wall St. Journal (Dow Jones Found.) FOLDER 25 Wallace-Murray Corp. FOLDER 26 Walsh Construction FOLDER 27 Warnaco inc. FOLDER 28 Warner Communications, Inc. FOLDER 29 Washington Federal Savings and Loan Assn. FOLDER 30 Waterford Glass Inc. FOLDER 31 Waterman Steamship Corp. FOLDER 32 Weiss, Peck and Greer

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New York State Council on the Arts, Other Fundraising, 1960s-1970s.

Wertheim and Co.

FOLDER 34 Whiterock Corporation FOLDER 35 Whirlpool Corporation FOLDER 36 White, Weld and Co. FOLDER 37 Widmers Wine Cellars FOLDER 38 Harry Wils Company FOLDER 39 Harry Winston, Inc. FOLDER 40 Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam and Roberts FOLDER 41 WNEW FOLDER 42 Wood, Struthers and Winthrop Management Co. (Empty) FOLDER 43 Xerox Fund FOLDER 44 Arthur Young and Co. FOLDER 45 Young and Rubicam International FOLDER 46 American Conservation Association, Inc. FOLDER 47 American Red Cross FOLDER 48 [Arca Foundation] (Missing Label) FOLDER 49 Avalon Foundation FOLDER 50 The Frank and Marie Louise Bailey Foundation FOLDER 51 The Belfer Foundation, Inc. FOLDER 52 The Samuel Bronfman Foundation, Inc. FOLDER 53 Chadbourne, Estate of William M. FOLDER 54 Coro Foundation FOLDER 55 Danforth FDN. FOLDER 56 Phelps Dodge Foundation FOLDER 57 Doris Duke Foundation FOLDER 58 Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation FOLDER 59 [Mary W. Harriman Foundation] FOLDER 60 The William and Flora Hewlett FOLDER 61 The Humes Foundation, Inc. FOLDER 62 The Itt Rayonier Foundation FOLDER 63 Mac C. Fleischemann Foundation FOLDER 64 The Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation FOLDER 65 Ittleson Foundation FOLDER 66 J.M. Foundation FOLDER 67 Karin’s Letters FOLDER 68 The Kandell Foundation FOLDER 69 The W. K. Kellogg Foundation FOLDER 70 The Charles F. Kettering Foundation FOLDER 71 Frederick A. Kungenstein Foundation FOLDER 72 Knox Foundation FOLDER 73 Lasker (Albert and Mary) Foundation FOLDER 74 Lavanburg Foundation FOLDER 75 The Henry Luce Foundation FOLDER 76 Lucy Rooney Lowe Trust (The Chase Manhattan Bank) FOLDER 77 Loews Foundation FOLDER 78 Ruth S. May – Legacy – 1975 FOLDER 79 MacArthur Foundation, John and Catherine FOLDER 80 James A. MacDonald Foundation

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New York State Council on the Arts, Other Fundraising, 1960s-1970s. (cont.)

The McMillan Foundation

FOLDER 82 Marquis George MacDonald Foundation, Inc. FOLDER 83 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation FOLDER 84 The Noble Foundation FOLDER 85 Norman Foundation, Inc. FOLDER 86 Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, Inc. FOLDER 87 Old Dominion Foundation FOLDER 88 Ottinger Foundation FOLDER 89 The Ritter Foundation FOLDER 90 Scriven Foundation FOLDER 91 The Skerryvore Foundation, Inc. FOLDER 92 Joseph F. Stein Foundation, Inc. FOLDER 93 20

th Century Fund

FOLDER 94 Twenty-first Century Foundation FOLDER 95 Union Foundation FOLDER 96 Vanneck-Bailey Foundation FOLDER 97 L.A. Wallace Foundation (Reader’s Digest) FOLDER 98 Samuel J. and Evelyn L. Wood Foundation, Inc. FOLDER 99 The Wood Foundation, Inc. FOLDER 100 The White Foundation, Inc. FOLDER 101 The William C. Whitney Foundation FOLDER 102 The Wilfred Fund FOLDER 103 Council-Projects-Conference Danger in the Parks FOLDER 104 Corporate Members FOLDER 105 Work/Study Donors FOLDER 106 Work/Study Donors Letter 1979, 1980 FOLDER 107 Public Relations Programs FOLDER 108 Fund Raising General 1974-1975 FOLDER 109 Fund Raising Sample Letters FOLDER 110 86

th Street Playground Party

FOLDER 111 Benefit Ideas FOLDER 112 Mitty Benefit FOLDER 113 Fund Raising Corporate Lists FOLDER 114 NEA Grant Application – Design Work – Book Back-Up Papers,

Correspondence, January 2, 1976 FOLDER 115 National Endowment for the Arts FOLDER 116 NEA Grant Application – Design Work – Book, January 2, 1976 (File

Copy) FOLDER 117 NEA Cityscale – Proposal 1975 FOLDER 118 [National Endowment for the Arts Guide to Programs] FOLDER 119 [The Waterfront, an Urban Frontier – Application for Environmental

Education Act Funding] FOLDER 120 M-33: Columbia Prep (Upper West Side), Withdrawn FOLDER 121 NEA 1976-1977 FOLDER 122 Waterfront – Sailor Snug Harbor UCP

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Box 16 FOLDER 123

New York State Council on the Arts, Other Fundraising, 1960s-1970s.

Staten Island Waterfront

FOLDER 124 NEA – 1979 FOLDER 125 National Endowment for the Arts Expansion Arts Program, 1975-1976 FOLDER 126 NEA: Grant Recognition Application, December 1979 FOLDER 127 NEA: 1974-1975, Street Ends/Piers City Options FOLDER 128 NEA – Street Ends Final Report FOLDER 129 National Endowment for the Arts Foundation – General FOLDER 130 [Application for Environmental Education Funding] FOLDER 131 Hew-Environmental Ed. Grant Application FOLDER 132 M-35: 7

th Street (C-D) B.A., Inc. (Lower East Side), Withdrawn, July

30, 1974 FOLDER 133 NYSCA – 1981-1982 FOLDER 134 NYSCA – December 1, 1980 – Bryant Park Application FOLDER 135 NYSCA – 1980-1981 – Budget Papers Pamphlets Box 17 FOLDER 1 [Mayor’s Report of December 1978, Mayor’s Management Report of

April 26, 1979] FOLDER 2 Program for Extension of Parks and Parkways in the Metropolitan

Region [with maps] FOLDER 3 Playground, Notting Hill Gatem W. 10 FOLDER 4 Adventure Playbarns FOLDER 5 Kinderspielplätze und Freizeitanlagen der Stadt Zürich FOLDER 6 Planning for Children’s Play FOLDER 7 Children’s Playgrounds: A Visual Commentary FOLDER 8 Playgrounds: United Kingdom: Whose Playgrounds FOLDER 9 Children’s Land Juvenile Hall FOLDER 10 Wien und Seine Kinderspielplätze FOLDER 11 Play Centers for the Community FOLDER 12 Heated Sand Pit: Play Park at Karlstad, Sweden FOLDER 13 Park Property List – August 1, 1967 FOLDER 14 The Bicentennial Barge FOLDER 15 PCA Playscapes Fulton Arcade Occupational Projections and Training Data – U.S. Department of

Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics 1979, Bulletin 2020 Career Education and the Comprehensive Employment and Training

Act – Office of Career Education, February 1978 Outdoor Recreation: Trails in New York State – State Council of

Parks and Outdoor Recreation 11 New Park Areas, 1463 Acres for the City of New York: Under the

Park Land Acquisition Proposition and Act of 1960 – Department of Parks

Can Man Survive? – The American Museum of Natural History Centennial /1869-1969

Conservation: Your Choice – Farrgut State Park, Idaho, 1969 “You Can Be a Conservationist: A story for young Americans” by

Charles Edgar Randall, What Can I Do? People-Power and Pollution – The American Forestry Association

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Pamphlets (cont.) Box 17 (cont.)

The Neighborhoods of Poverty – Community Development Agency City of New York, Haskell G. Ward, Commissioner

Tracking Community Services in New York City – The Nova Institute The City of New York, Section 208: Areawide Waste Treatment

Management Planning Program – Grant Agency: NYC Department of Environmental Protection, Participating Agency: NYC Department of City Planning, Managing Consultant: Hazen and Sawyer, April 1979

Executive Summary, The City of New York, Section 208: Areawide Waste Treatment Management Program DRAFT – Grant Agency: NYC Department of Environmental Protection, Participating Agency: NYC Department of City Planning, Managing Consultant: Hazen and Sawyer, March 1978

Ruston Way Design & Human Scale Study: a design guide for development – City of Tacoma

Madison Mall – Office of Midtown Planning and Development, 1971 Revising the New York City Charter, Introductory Report – State

Charter Revision Commission for New York City The Threatened City, A Report on the Design of the City of New York

by the Mayor’s Task Force Smithsonian, May 1978 Improving the Quality of Urban Life – Hud PG-47, December 1966 Community Action for Environmental Quality The Future of Nassau County: a supplement to The Second Regional

Plan, a draft for discussion – Regional Plan Association, March 1969

Journal of the New York State Recreation and Park Society – March, 1970

30 Years of Progress, 1934-1964 – Department of Parks, 300th

Anniversary of the City of New York, New York’s World Fair

Technical Assistance Notifications 5: HCRS Information Exchange – U.S. Department of the Interior, Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service

Eco*Sources: Environmental and Natural Resources Directory for Environmental Action and Information – Echo Ranch Media Project

The Park’s Council’s Offbeat Olympiad, October 15, 1975 7:30-12:00P.M., Passenger Ship Terminal Berths 3 & 4, 55

th Street &

the Hudson River A Primer on Water Quality – United States Department of the Interior

Geological Survey WLRA Bulletin – World Leisure and Recreation Association, Mar.-

Apr., 1974, Vol. XVII, no. 2 Playgrounds and Recreation-centres – Pro Juventute, Zurich, 1964 Summary Report of The Governor’s Conference on Natural Beauty –

Friday, February 25, 1966, New York, NY Therapeutic Recreation Journal – National Therapeutic Recreation

Society, National Recreation and Parks Association, Vol. VII, Number 4, Fourth Quarter, 1973

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Aviation Volunteer 3, 50th

Anniversary, Featuring a Picture History of Clason Point and it’s People – Fire Co. Bronx, N.Y. 1923-1973

Participation in Urban Spaces: Development of Interacting Relationships Between People and the Public Environment – Philip Vlasak, Designer

Conservation Good Turn – Boy Scouts of America, 1971 Recreational Facilities of New Yorkers, 1963-1964 Recreational Facilities of New Yorkers, 1965-1966 National Parks of the United States Recreational Facilities for New Yorkers – New York City Department

of Parks Parks, 1960s and Earlier Box 18 FOLDER 1 Offerman and Neuwirth Reports on Window Boxes. 66 Park

Association – Neighborhood Improvement Program – 1966-1969

FOLDER 2 Parks Council General: (Vest Pocket Parks) FOLDER 3 Vest Pocket Parks: 128

th Street

FOLDER 4 Parks Council General: (Energy Demands, Con Edison’s Astoria Plant)

FOLDER 5 Parks Council General: (Encroachment – General) FOLDER 6 Parks Council General: (Eisman Day Nursery Backyard) FOLDER 7 Parks Council General: (Playgrounds – Catalogues, Brochures, Etc.) FOLDER 8 Parks Council General: (Playground Revolution) FOLDER 9 Parks Council General: (Community Gardens) 1969 and Before FOLDER 10 Parks Council General: (Vest Pocket Parks) Metro North – East 100

th

Street FOLDER 11 Vest Pocket Parks: A Preliminary Outline FOLDER 12 Parks Council General: Vest Pocket Parks General FOLDER 13 Parks Council General: (Playground) Design Before 1968 FOLDER 14 Parks Council General: Harlem Action Committee FOLDER 15 Parks Council General: (H.I.P.P.) FOLDER 16 Parks Council General: (Transportation) FOLDER 17 Minority Contractors FOLDER 18 Parks Council General: (Mobile Units) Correspondence, Notes,

Memo, Prop. FOLDER 19 P.C. General: (Nature Conservation Meeting) November 14, 1967 FOLDER 20 Parks Council General: (Open Space) Recreation Coordination Reports Pamphlets Box 19 FOLDER 1 Aullwood Audubon Center: Director’s Report, Sep. 1, 1971-Aug. 31,

1972 FOLDER 2 Vacant Properties in East Harlem, April 1968 FOLDER 3 Environmental Graphics Litter Prevention…An Aid to Conservation – Keep America Beautiful,

Inc. You Can Move to a Cleaner Block Without Leaving Home Science Adventures in Children’s Play – Prepared for Play Schools

Association by Edythe Rieger, Educational Consultant

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Use or Abuse: How to turn vacant storefronts, buildings, and lots into community assets

City of New York Department of Parks: 24 Years of Progress, 1934-1958 – January 1, 1958

Trips: New York City and Out-of-Town – Play Schools Association Message to the Legislature – Governor Mario M. Cuomo, January 8,

1986 The World Around You: Our Natural Resources Education Packet New York State Award/1968 – New York State Council on the Arts Guidelines to Conservation Education Action A Primer on Waste Water Treatment – U.S. Department of the Interior,

Federal Water Pollution Control Administration Science, Technology & Human Values – National Endowment for the

Humanities “Wild Flowers of Our Prairies” by Olive S. Thomson, Audubon Aids:

Audubon Nature Bulletin “Some Common Mosses” by John W. Thomson, Audubon Aids:

Audubon Nature Bulletin “Seeds And How They Travel” by Rutherford Platt, Audubon Aids:

Audubon Nature Bulletin “Forecasting the Weather” by Joseph J. Brumbach, Audubon Aids:

Audubon Nature Bulletin “Hardwood Trees and their Leaves” by John W. Thomson, Audubon

Aids: Audubon Nature Bulletin “The Terrarium” by Jessie Howard Tollison, Audubon Aids: Audubon

Nature Bulletin “Bird Nests” by Dorothy A. Treat, Audubon Aids: Audubon Nature

Bulletin “The Curious World of Plant Cells” by Richard B. Fischer, Audubon

Aids: Audubon Nature Bulletin “Ferns” by Boughton Cobb, Audubon Aids: Audubon Nature Bulletin “A Flannel Board Story: The Good Word BON, or Balance of Nature”

by Dorothy A. Treat, Audubon Aids: Audubon Nature Bulletin “’Togetherness’ in the World of Nature – Symbiosis” by Dorothy E.

Shuttlesworth, Audubon Aids: Audubon Nature Bulletin “Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountains” by Stanley L. Welsh, Audubon

Aids: Audubon Nature Bulletin Zoning Handbook: A Guide to the New York City Zoning Resolution

– John V. Lindsay and John E. Zuccotti, NYC DCP 73-20 Waterfront Festivals: Potential for Developing Events on Public Lands

and Availability of Technical Services – John A. Lucy, Sea Grant Marine Advisory Services, Sea Grant Program

Portfolio on … Nature Centers and Outdoor Education Areas Folder contains 6 Documents: Manual of Outdoor Interpretation, Trail Planning and Layout: Kinds of Trails, Design, Construction, Features, Educational Uses, Wildlife Habitat Improvement, Manual of Outdoor Conservation Education, Planning a Nature Center – National Audubon Society, A Nature Center for Your Community – National Audubon Society

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Estacionamientos – Vyesa, No. 118, Madrid-16 Property List – Department of Parks, City of New york, April 1, 1965 New York City’s Bicycle Program: Sharing the Road in New York

City – Department of Transportation, March 1983 Environmental Plan for New York State: Preliminary Edition – New

York State Department of Environmental Conservation Adaptive Reuse Handbook: Opportunities for Housing in Old

Buildings – Tri-State Regional Planning Commission, June 1981 The State of the City: A report by the New York State Chapter – The

American Institute of Architects Proceedings of the New York State Forest Resources Planning

Symposium held February 28 and 29, 1980, Albany, NY – Forest Resources Planning New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

Citizen Participation Plan for the Community Development Program in New York City – Department of City Planning, NYC DCP 79-24, Revised, October 1979

Neighborhood: The Journal for City Preservation A Primer On Water – United States Department of the Interior

Geological Survey Feb. 2, 1971: Recycling Day in New York – New York Board of

Trade’s National Business Council on Environment, National Association of Secondary Material Industries

Landscape of Architecture: 100 Years of Landscape Architecture, April 1965

The American Museum Hayden Planetarium New York City New York City in Perspective: A View from the Top Alley Pond Park: A Teacher’s Guide New York: A Month of Sundays – School for Children Lincoln Square: Slum Clearance Plan Under Title 1 of the Housing

Act of 1949 as Amended People-Resources-Recreation: New York Statewide Recreation

Program Directions Portfolio on … Nature Centers and Outdoor Education Areas Conservation Foundation Letter: Offshore Oil Heats Up as Energy

Issue – Conservation Foundation, Nov.1972-Nov.1974 Plan for New York City: Critical Issues Photos Box 20 FOLDER 1 67 St. Playground FOLDER 2 Playgrounds & Park Visited on Bus Tours 66, 67 etc. FOLDER 3 Misc. Playground Designs & Equipment FOLDER 4 Happenings FOLDER 5 Adventure Playground: Requests to Develop Private Lots FOLDER 6 Rejects FOLDER 7 UIP FOLDER 8 Playgrounds FOLDER 9 Unidentified: (Group to Help Residents Make Gifts of Improvements

to City)

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Photos (cont.) VIP - Photos - City Parks Week (Greening of Bloomingdale’s)

FOLDER 11 VIP - Photos – Kiosks

FOLDER 12 VIP - Photos - Green NBHD Fund 1972 Arbor Day Planting Hancock St. - Brooklyn

FOLDER 13 Vest Pocket Parks FOLDER 14 Unidentified FOLDER 15 Philadelphia Tour – Misc. Photos FOLDER 16 Adventure Playgrounds – Contact Sheets FOLDER 17 Parks Council c/o and Banford #1095 FOLDER 18 Flowers Meetings FOLDER 19 Pictures 1982 FOLDER 20 Annual Meeting – 1980 (Slide Shop Inc.) FOLDER 21 The Central Park Work/Study Summer Program 1975 – Restoration of

the Cave and Stone Arch Areas FOLDER 22 Parks Council Works/Study Program 1980 – Training Sessions

Tompkins Square Park FOLDER 23 The Central Park Summer Work/Study Program Photograph File –

1973-1974 FOLDER 24 W/S ’80 Job – Education w/ Virginia Flintou FOLDER 25 Leslie Talbut – Community Group Planning Sessions FOLDER 26 Slide Show FOLDER 27 Tree Planting Tompkins Square Park FOLDER 28 “Children’s Day” Tompkins Square Park – May 1981 FOLDER 29 Children’s Day Tompkins Square Park 5-81 & Budget Hearings 5-26-

81 FOLDER 30 Unidentified FOLDER 31 Children’s Day Tompkins Square Park – May 1982 FOLDER 32 Unidentified FOLDER 33 Daffodils Distribution – 1981 FOLDER 34 FY ’82 Budget Hearing FOLDER 35 St. Augustine’s Glee Club City Hall Park Tree Press Conference FOLDER 36 Unidentified FOLDER 37 Friends of Tompkins Square Park Painting Bandelull Spring 1981 FOLDER 38 Fall 1980 – Bulb Planting Tompkins Square & Sunset Parks FOLDER 39 Photos – Tree Maintenance Program in Tompkins Square Park –

11/6/80 FOLDER 40 Brooklyn Bikeway CPW 1968 FOLDER 41 Annual Meeting 1967 – Park Association of NY City FOLDER 42 Mrs. Peter Findlay – 160 E. 81

st

FOLDER 43 1968 Benefit Committee Harlem Cultural Festival FOLDER 44 HEP Garden City – 1967 FOLDER 45 Unidentified FOLDER 46 Bloom Day – Claremont, 1967 FOLDER 47 Arbor Day 1967 FOLDER 48 Lower East Side 1968 FOLDER 49 Annual Meeting Photos 1977 FOLDER 50 Annual Meeting 1968 FOLDER 51 City Parks Week Photos FOLDER 52 Neighborhood PR Photos

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Photos (cont.) Unidentified

FOLDER 54 Unidentified FOLDER 55 Unidentified FOLDER 56 Misc. FOLDER 57 Unidentified FOLDER 58 Unidentified FOLDER 59 School Nature Walk – City Parks Walk 1967 FOLDER 60 Annual Meeting Photos 1966 FOLDER 61 Unidentified FOLDER 62 Bus Stop Benches & Neg. FOLDER 63 I….? Park 1968 FOLDER 64 Unidentified FOLDER 65 Junior League Exhibit FOLDER 66 Adventure Playgrounds FOLDER 67 Photographs Slides and Photos Box 21 FOLDER 1 Volunteers FOLDER 2 Bryant Park Photos – B&W Negatives FOLDER 3 Parks Council – Awards Photographs FOLDER 4 Bryant Park Proj. FOLDER 5 Parks Council Genl. (Photos) Delaware River Basin Commission FOLDER 6 Opening Day – City Parks Walk 1967 – Nature Walk in North Central

Park FOLDER 7 Wall Street Flower Show 1971-1972 FOLDER 8 Annual Meeting 1986 FOLDER 9 Special Meetings FOLDER 10 3

rd Avenue Project

FOLDER 11 Misc. FOLDER 12 Waterfront FOLDER 13 Parks Council – Box I Studio FOLDER 14 Parks Council – Box I #1720 FOLDER 15 Annual Meeting FOLDER 16 Evelyn Lauder Bulb Planting Contest Launch FOLDER 17 1987 Annual Meeting FOLDER 18 5H: Photos from Playground Survey (Other Photos and Negatives) FOLDER 19 Unidentified FOLDER 20 Hip & Baseball In CP FOLDER 21 The Parks Council – Sanctuary (Grey Disc) FOLDER 22 (27a) Asphalt/Baseball – Basketball v. Meeraes (Yellow Box) FOLDER 23 Annual Meeting May 19, 1986 (Kodak Box) FOLDER 24 Slides – Tompkins (Envelope) FOLDER 25 Street Tree TV Spot FOLDER 26 VIP Slides – Play Equipment for File (Green Box) FOLDER 27 (48) Film for Annual Meeting 1975 (Film) FOLDER 28 (29) Yellow Stone Park (Kodak Box) FOLDER 29 (8) Morrisanne (Color Transparencies) FOLDER 30 (38) - 72

nd Street/29 St./81

st St./Expo ’67 (Airequipt Magazine)

FOLDER 31 (1) NY Pallation 13359 (Color Film)

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Slides and Photos (cont.) Ecology_1 Pollution (Blue Box)

FOLDER 33 (2) Greening of Ruppert (Yellow Box) FOLDER 34 Gateway Trip – I.S. 162 RISS Park Trip Waterborne Experiment

6/20/75 #49 (Blue Box) FOLDER 35 RIIS Playground – 2

nd & 29

th (Color Transparencies)

FOLDER 36 (41) P.C. Annual Meeting 1974 (Blue Box) FOLDER 37 Rugby Adventure Playground Slides (Yellow Box) FOLDER 38 (37) Vest Pocket Parks (Magazine for Airequipt Slide Changer) FOLDER 39 CP Slides for A.M. 5/19/86 (Black Box) FOLDER 40 Brooklyn – Rugby Adv. Playground (Color Slides) FOLDER 41 Playgrounds – Adventure – Lenox St. Burndus (Blue Box) FOLDER 42 Simon Benepe – 54 W. 22

nd St. (Kodak Slides)

FOLDER 43 Park Maintenance ( Blue Box) FOLDER 44 1985 – Budget Hings (White Box) FOLDER 45 Streets – Irving Place Corner (Blue Box) FOLDER 46 4. Lady in the Park etc. (Blue Box) FOLDER 47 (2) NY Pall…? – 13518 (Color Film) FOLDER 48 (35) Grant St. Williamsburg So. 3

rd St. Park (Color Slides)

General, 1960’s and earlier. Bottle Bill. Box 22 FOLDER 1 Parks Council General (Annual Event) 1969 Arbor Day, Mend Garde FOLDER 2 Parks Council General (Arbor Day 1967) FOLDER 3 Parks Council General (Annual Meeting) 1970 FOLDER 4 Parks Council General (Annual Meeting) Annual Awards 1969 FOLDER 5 Parks Council General (Annual Meeting) 1968 FOLDER 6 Parks Council General (Annual Meeting) Free Awards, Etc. 1967 FOLDER 7 Parks Council General (Annual Meeting) 1966 FOLDER 8 Parks Council General (Annual Meeting) 1965 FOLDER 9 Parks Council General (Annual Meeting) 1964 FOLDER 10 Parks Council General (Annual Meeting) 1963 FOLDER 11 Parks Council General (City Park Week, ’71) General FOLDER 12 Parks Council General (City Park Week, ’71) Broadway Mall FOLDER 13 Parks Council General (Brooklyn Bridge Festival) 1971 FOLDER 14 Parks Council General (City Park Week, ’71) Brooklyn Bridge

Festival of Flowers FOLDER 15 Parks Council General (City Park Week, ’71) Colloquium FOLDER 16 Parks Council General (’71, Orange Pond) FOLDER 17 Parks Council General (City Park Week, ’71) Park with a Bank

Around It FOLDER 18 Parks Council General (City Park Week, ’71) Press Release – T.V.

Slides FOLDER 19 Parks Council General (City Park Week, ’70) “How To Do It” Kit FOLDER 20 Parks Council General (City Park Week, ’70) Book Stalls/ Flower Cart FOLDER 21 Parks Council General (City Park Week, ’70) Gateway Cruise 5/29/70 FOLDER 22 Parks Council General (City Park Week, ’70) Picnic Benefit FOLDER 23 Parks Council General (City Park Week, ’70) General/Press Releases FOLDER 24 Parks Council General (City Park Week, ’70) Treasure Contest FOLDER 25 Parks Council General (City Park Week, ’70) Speaker Requests FOLDER 26 Parks Council General (City Park Week, ’67) 1967

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General, 1960’s and earlier. Bottle Bill. (cont.) Parks Council General (City Park Week, 1965-1969)

FOLDER 28 Architects’ Technical Assistance Center FOLDER 29 Neighborhood Improvement Committee (67 Parks Association Info. –

19660-1967) FOLDER 30 Bottle Bill – Bibliographies FOLDER 31 Bottle Bill – Legal Issues FOLDER 32 Bottle Bill – Press Clips FOLDER 33 N.Y.C. Agency Statements, Reports FOLDER 34 Unidentified FOLDER 35 Parks Council Statements, Etc. – Bottle Bill FOLDER 36 Legislation and Impacts in Other Jurisdictions, Inc. Fed. Legislation FOLDER 37 N.Y.C. Reports, City Council Hearings FOLDER 38 N.Y.C. Groups Lobbying, Statements General, 1960’s. Ruppert; vest-pocket parks. Box 23 FOLDER 1 69 Parks Association – Publications: Citizens View Their Parks –

1962 FOLDER 2 N.Y.C. Parks – General – Jan.1968-Dec.1968 FOLDER 3 94 Parks Association: Budget & Planning Correspondence: 1966 FOLDER 4 Parks Council General Surveys: Capital Appropriations FOLDER 5 Comptroller’s Reports FOLDER 6 Vest Pocket Parks: Commercial Areas FOLDER 7 Waterfront N.E.A. Project Funding, Revenue FOLDER 8 Parks Council General (Vest Pocket Parks) FOLDER 9 Neighborhood Improvement FOLDER 10 Unidentified FOLDER 11 Asphalt Green FOLDER 12 Asphalt Green FOLDER 13 Parks Council General (Greening of Ruppert) D FOLDER 14 Parks Council General (Greening of Ruppert) General FOLDER 15 Parks Council General (Greening of Ruppert) A FOLDER 16 Parks Council General (Greening of Ruppert) B FOLDER 17 Unidentified FOLFER 18 Federal Agency Reports FOLDER 19 Consumer Prices, Other Consumer Issues FOLDER 20 Litter, Recycling, Solid Waste Management – Reports, Statements FOLDER 21 Bottle Bill 1982 FOLDER 22 Greenways Empty Folder: (N.A. Waterfront) FOLDER 23 Unidentified FOLDER 24 Industry – Impacts, Profiles, Statements FOLDER 25 Seeds 1978 – Summary, Mailings, Etc. (“Bottle Bill” Beverage

Container Deposit Bill) FOLDER 26 Bottle Bill Square Park (Plan) FOLDER 27 Draft 1 FOLDER 28 Unidentified FOLDER 29 Environ. Education Proposal FOLDER 30 NEA Proposal Writing FOLDER 31

Environmental Planning Lobby – Env. Voters Guide

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Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 Book 5 Book 6

Petty Cash, Nov. 1920 Membership Dues, 1952-1959 Membership Dues, 1946-1951, 1960, 1945 Central Park Reservoir Scrapbook Brooklyn Tour, Bronx Tour, Queens Tour, Staten Island Tour

[Scrapbook] [Nov. 2, 1928 - Nov. 1, 1929, Newspaper Articles Mentioning Parks

Council]