On October 6 and 7, TCLF will host What’s Out There Weekend NYC, fifth in a series of FREE tours led by expert guides at 25 publicly accessible sites throughout New York City.

The five boroughs include examples of some of the nation’s most innovative landscapes spanning two centuries of design, including several Modernist gems in Midtown Manhattan, the great civic spaces at Grand Army Plaza and Prospect Park, Wave Hill’s majestic views of the Hudson River, and Woodlawn Cemetery’s unmatched romance and memorials designed by some of the country’s most illustrious landscape architects and architects. The free tours will be led by landscape architects, designers and other professionals, and will feature insights and anecdotes about city shaping, landscape architecture and the design history of places they may see daily and others that are “hidden in plain sight.” The goal of What’s Out There Weekend NYC is to make these places, the stories behind them, and the people responsible for them visible.

The weekend is an extension of the What’s Out There database of America’s designed landscapes. The free, online, searchable, and vetted database hosts illustrated entries about more than 1,000 parks, gardens and open spaces throughout the U.S.

In partnership with the Central Park Conservancy, TCLF will also host a symposium on Friday, October 5 (the day before the tours), focused on the design and complexity of Central Park’s Woodlands, part of a broader theme, Bridging the Nature/Culture Divide.

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