Bathing, Manhattan Beach.

Richmond County: view of Silver Lake, August 1897. Ice house at right.

Sports, Skating, Van Cortlandt Park.

Sports, Bathing, Midland Beach. People seated on beach with boats and swimmers visible.

Street Scene-Bronx-1899 Grand Concourse at 164th St. Large crowd of men and women gathered on the Grand Concourse to witness the unveiling of the Lorelei Fountain, which honors Heinrich Heine and was purchased by German citizens in New York after Dusseldorf, rejected it.

Former Prospect Park Carousel, ca. 1900.

Madison Sq. Park. Children playing at a fountain in Madison Square Park.

Tompkins Square Park, Arbor Day, 1904. Named after Daniel H. Tompkins, fourth Governor of New York and Vice President under James Monroe, the Tompkins Square Park site was once part of a salt marsh owned by the Stuyvesant family. The Stuyvesants transferred the land to the city in 1829, and between 1834 and 1850, the site was drained, graded, landscaped, and finally opened as a public park. Arbor Day was founded in the United States in 1872 by a Nebraskan newspaper editor and later Secretary of Agriculture, J. Sterling Morton. It is a holiday (observed in most countries) that celebrates and encourages the care and planting of trees.

Garden party, Governors Island, ca. 1911. Physically, the Island changed greatly during the early 20th century. Using rocks and dirt from the excavation of the Lexington Avenue Subway and dredge from New York Harbor, the Army Corps of Engineers supervised the deposit of 4,787,000 cubic yards of fill on the south side of Governors Island. This fill was used to add 103 acres of flat, treeless land, increasing the size of the Island to 172 acres by 1912.

Lawn tennis players Thomasina F. Fisher and Rose B. Loring sit by a net on the Long Meadow with their rackets and balls, August 20, 1913.

Large tulip tree, Inwood, New York City, 1916.

Staten Island Boat Club Staten Island Boat Club Clifton \[handwritten on recto] Staten Island shore with man standing on rock in foreground. Scrapbook page from “Views of New York City, Brooklyn and other places. Vol. 2.” by Eugene Armbruster.

\[Sunset Park lake] View of section of Sunset Park with five children standing at edge of lake. Two children in foreground are playing with toy sailboat.

Astoria Park, view from the War Memorial. hand written on back of print: Along Line of Triborough Bridge from World War Monument in Park March 14, 1931 Astoria

My Archive Spring 2019 “My dad Richard Roth Jr. Is in the middle of two forgotten children. The photo was taken around 1934/1935. In the background are the twin towers of the Eldorado designed by his grandfather Emery Roth.” —Robyn Roth-Moise

Islands - Plumb Island - Point Breeze - Brooklyn. Plumb Island at Point Breeze, looking southeastward, showing a canoe partly on the Beach. This is a set of three views at slightly different angles. July 7, 1935.

Manhattan: Carl Schurz Park. Carl Schurz Park: A new pedestrian over pass is in the central portion of the Park; built by the W.P.A. The photographers vantage point is eastward and shows through same the Astoria shoreline across the East River. August 17, 1936. P. L. Sperr.

Recreations and hobbies, miscellaneous: Children eating a bit of lunch during dips in the water at the foot of the Fountain of Abundance in the Grand Army Plaza on Fifth Ave., at 59th Street. August 4, 1937. P. L. Sperr.

Highland Park View of children with hoes in foreground in Children’s Farm Gardens in Highland Park and two adults, several other children, and small building in background.

Before Owl’s Head Park, this property was the estate of Henry Cruse Murphy, Mayor of Brooklyn, U.S. Congressman, New York State Senator and founder of The Brooklyn Eagle. In 1866, he met other politicians here to formulate the agreement for the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. In that same year, he sold the estate to Eliphalet W. Bliss, a wealthy pressed metal manufacturer. Bliss constructed stables and an observatory tower, and upon his death in 1903, willed the estate to the city for use as a park. Locally the park is still referred to as Bliss Park. Its buildings were left to deteriorate and were all demolished before 1940. In 1994, the park was restored and an equestrian-themed playground was installed on the site of the stables.

Manhattan: High Bridge Park - Swimming pool - \[High Bridge Tower.] High Bridge Park: An eastward view showing the swimming pool that replaced the former reservoir and the old water tower. July 30, 1937. P. L. Sperr.

Jacob Riis Beach Bathhouse ca. 1937 The Art Deco Bathhouse was proposed in 1930 by Queens Parks Commissioner Albert C. Benninger, who was inspired by the bathhouse at Jones Beach State Park, completed in August 1929. The designs for Riis’s bathhouse were made by architect John L. Plock in November 1930. The project was approved by the mayor’s office in February 1931 and construction began that November. The bathhouse was opened on August 6, 1932.

Bronx: Pelham Bay Park - Orchard Beach. Pelham Bay Park–Orchard Beach: The newly erected beach on Long Island Sound, built by the W.P.A. The beach was artificially created by filling in Pelham Bay between Hunters Island and Rodman Neck,thereby joining the former with the mainland. August 20, 1939 P. L. Sperr

\[Children in wading pool in Marine Park] Children in wading pool in Marine Park; parents and other children behind iron fence around pool; chainlink fence, houses, and trees in background.

Man playing chess in Washington Square Park; unknown date.

\[Fort Greene Park] Young man, with a camera case hanging from his left shoulder, taking a close-up photograph of young woman sitting on a bench in Fort Green Park.

Batter up! Children … start batting a couple around in McCarren Park at Driggs Ave and Lorimer St. The park was named in memory of State Senator Pat McCarren who was a Greenpoint hero …"

My Archive Spring 2019 “This photo was taken on a class trip to the 1964 Worlds Fair. I am sitting with my fourth-grade teacher Sister Josefa and classmate Brian. It was taken by my mother, who was a class mother on the trip.” — Lisa Malaspina

\[Union Square Greenmarket.]

\[Riverview Terrace at Sutton Square.]