Central Park has nine of New York City’s so-called “Great Trees.” In 1985, New York City embarked on a “Great
Frederick Law Olmsted is considered by many as the “father of American landscape architecture,” co-designing many famous urban parks with
On the south shore of Staten Island, an abandoned house is the only remnant of what was Frederick Law Olmsted's farm where he conducted his early experiments that would lead to his famous landscape designs for Central Park and more.
On Staten Island, Frederick Law Olmsted's home has been left abandoned but the NYC Landmarks Conservancy is campaigning and fundraising to save it.
In the Gilded Era, East Coast elite families built summer residences in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. Here are 12 of those estates you can visit today.
Prospect Park Alliance is celebrating the groundbreaking of the restoration of the Flatbush Avenue park perimeter, and unveiled designs for new entrances.
A look at some quirky and surprising details in Central Park that were not a part of the original Greensward Plan, yet have become a part of its history.
NYC's Central Park was a grand vision by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux but not everything was shaped anew in the monumental effort
Celebrate 150 years of Prospect Park at the upcoming "Witness Tree Project" exhibit, displaying items about the immigrant experience made from a fallen elm tree
The Replica of Mount Vernon in Prospect Park. Image from Brooklyn Historical Society via Prospect Park Alliance On April 1st and