4 a.· >· >/'·- ·· · a 1 - ?·' / ·' " ·'· V'* ·*--, January -'June 19#2 1. l/lO Continuation of childrens marionette and magic shows 2. l/ll New playground in Queens adjacent to P.S.68 3. l/l4 Gift of new recreation area in St. Albans, Queens 4. l/l8 Paerdeqat Park in Borrklyn open to the public 5. l/21 Fourteen boxing bouts in East 5^-th street gym scheduled 6. l/23 City wide ice carnival on January 24th 7. l/25 Municipal lifeguard training course starts February 19th 8. 2/3 Proposed change in zoning resolution 9. 2/3 Roller skating show in Flushing Meadow February 3 10. 2/8 Extension of lifeguard course 11. 2/l4 Demonstration of recretional activities starts Fenruary 15th 12. 2/15 Groups putting up service flags, honor rolls and memorials in the city 13. 2/21 Learn to swim campaign going on in indoor pools 14. 2/23 500th performance of puppet and marionette show 15. 3/l3 9 park projects bids open to finish work done by WPA - maps 16. 3/l3 Golf and tennis courts open -where and how much they cost. 17. 3/l4 Social and square dancing in Queens March 19 and 26th 18. 3/l9 ©lanting of new landscaping in parks 19. 3/l9 Bids for landscaping work on Brooklyn connecticing highway - map 20. 3/20 N.Y. State Indoor Speed Skating championships March 25th 21. 3/23 Hershey estate donates two female lions 22. 3/24 Robert Moses letter to ¥alter Hoving re. major living in Gracie Mansion 23. 3/27 154 baseball diamonds and 279 Softball fields open April 17th 24. 3/29 Park and community trust conducts sports competition for children 25. 4/7 City wide boxing finals April 8th 26. 4/ll Ten municipal golf courses open April 17th 27. 4/17 Easter flower show - Prospect Park April l8th 28. 4/l8 New York Community Trust Spring sports tournamant 29. Vl9 Girl Scout day camps starting July 1st 30. V29 Four thousand tulips donated by James Keur 31. 5/2 Roller skating in Flushing Meadow 32. 5/3 Timber bulk heads being built in Soundview Park, Bronx and Great Kills 33. 5/3 Finals of NY Trusts Tournament in roller skating, hockey etc. 3k. 5/T Finals in Spring Tournament 35. 5/8 Reopening of Claremont Inn 36. 5/lO Additional fishing areas designated 37. 5/13 City vide finals is CTT (City Trust Tournament) 38. 5/13 Pitch and putt golf course in Jacob Riis Park 39. 5/l3 Childrens orchestra presents concert May l6th ko. 5/15 Continuation of CTT iH 5/18 Boxing finals in CTT k2. 5/21 Birth of Aoudad (Barberry Sheep) "Yank" V3. 5/21 Finals in CTT kk. 5/23 Paddle tennis and Roller Derby finals in CTT 2+5. 5/28 Outdoor swimming pools open k6. 5/28 City wide finals in CTS kj. 5/29 Four Naumbery concerts scheduled 48. 5/31 Expanded park facilities k-9. 6/2 Moses comments on proposed amendment to permit Sylvania building ]ab 50. 6/3 City wide finals in CTT 51. 6/4 City wide finals finishing 52. 6/9 Surf cast fishing restricted - hours listed 53. 6/ll Climax of CTT 5k. 6/ll Birth of Fallow Deer 55. 6/l2 33 concerts in various parks during the summer 56. 6/l3 Park Department Puppeteers will be back in the park 57. 6/13 Roller skating discontinued for summer 58. 6/13 Birth of two deer 59. 6/lk Sports tournaments begins June 19th 60. 6/l6 Planning Committee public hearing June l6 61. 6/l8 Swimming finals of FYCTT 62. 6/ 19 Birth of more fallow Seer 63. 6/ 26 16 out of 17 swimming pools will be kept open later in evening 6k. 6/26- Schedule of Trysts finals 65. 6/28 First in series of five concerts June 29th 66. 6/29 Awards of Trusts Tournament 67. 6/30 Concerts with dancing in parks throughout the city. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS 6 . :. :" ^0 ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK TEL. REgent 4-1000 FOR RELEASE Wednesday, June 30,1945 The Park Department announces a series of concerts with dancing in the various parks throughout the city. This is a second annual series to be given by the Consolidated Edison Company. Ad- mission is free. The series will be inaugurated Thursday, July 1, at the Mall in Central Park by Bob Allen and his orchestra. The last con- cert Till be held Friday, September 17. Large open dance areas have been selected and seating arrangements will be provided for thosa who com© to hear the music and watch the dancing. These concerts and dances will run five nights a week from 3:30 to 10»30 P.M. in designated areas throughout the city. Two nights per week, the program will be broadcast by Station WNYC. In each case provisions will be made for dancers and spectators. Before the season is over, the public will have an opportunity to hear such bands as Sammy Kaye, Will Osborne, Jerry Wald, Johnny McGee and Joe Venuti. Following is a list of the parks where thoso events will take place during tho summer: In Manhattan: Mall, Central Park, Colonial Play Center In Brooklyn: Prospect Park, McCarron Park, Ocean Parkway and Avenuo P, Bushwick Park, and Loiv Eriksson Playground. In Queenst Jackson Heights Playground, Victory Field, G-rover Cleveland Playground and Jewell Playground. In Bronx: Poo Park and Van Cortlandt Park, 242nd Streat and Broadway. Attached Schedule, # CITY 0? NET YORK DEPAT?TMSNT OF P/.PKS CONSOLIDATSD EDISON'S HAKE BAND DANCES 1943 DATE LOCATIONS Thursday, July 1 Mall, Centra] Pnrk Friday, July 2 Prospect Park Dunce Area a t 11 S t r e e t & Prospect Park W« Monday, July 5 C o l o n i a l Play C e n t e r , 153 S t r e e t h Bradhurst Avenue, Man. Tuesday, J u l y 6 Jackson Heights Playground, Queens, 84 S t . & 25 Avenue Wednesday, J u l y 7 Poe Park, 1 9 2 S t r e e t t Grand Concourse, Bronx Thursday, July 8 Mall, C e n t r a l Park Friday, July 9 Prospect Park ^ n c e Area Fond ay, J u l y 18 McCarren parV,Lorimer S t r e e t * Drigp;s Avenue Tuesday, J u l y 13 Playground a t 3C Ho?d & 45 S t r e e t , Queens Wednesday, J u l y 14 Poe Park, 192 S t r e e t * Grand Concourse, Bronx Thursday, J u l y 15 F o i l , C e n t r a l Pork F r i d a y , J u l y 16 Prospect Park Drnce Area Monday, J u l y 19 Grover Cleveland Playground, Stanhope S t r e e t & Grand view Av. Tuesday, J u l y 20 V i c t o r y F i e l d , Woodhaven Blvd. &. Myrtle Ave«, Queens Wednesday, J u l y 21 Van C o r t l a n d t Pork, 242 S t r e e t & Broadway, Bronx Thursday, July 22 Mall, C e n t r a l Park F r i d a y , J u l y 23 Prospect Park Dance .area Monday, J u l y 26 C o l o n i a l Park, Manhattan Tuesday, July 27 Jackson Heights Playground, 25 Ave. «. 84 S t r e e t , Queens Wednesday, July 28 P«e Park, 192 S t r e e t I Grand Conoourse, Bronx Thursday, J u l y 29 MB 1 1 , C e n t r a l Park F r i d a y , J u l y 30 Prospect Park Panoe ,-rea Mondpy, August 2 Colonial Park, 153 S t r e e t < ?· B r a d h u r s t Avenue, Man. Tuesday, August 3 Jewell Playground, Jewell;venue & Utopia Parkway, Flushing 1fr ednesdrv, /.up-ust 4 Poe Park, 192 S t r e e t f: Grand Concourse, Bronx · «*» # - 2 - Thursday, *.ugust 5 Mall, Central Pork Friday, .uugust 6 Prospect Park Dance ^ Monday, August 9 Playground a t Ocean Pkwy, & Avenue P, Brooklyn Tuesday, August 10 Jackson Heights Playground, 84 Street L 25 Avenue, Queens r r . odnesday, August 11 Van Cortlandt Perk, 242Street & Broadway, Bronx Thursday, August 12 Mall, Central Park Friday, August f$ Prospect Perk Dance Area Mondoy, August 16 Playground at Broadway £ 78 S t r e e t , Joc v son Heights, Queens Tuesday, August 17 Playground at 30 Poad & 45 Street ·""ednc-sdav, August 18 Poe Perk, 192 Street & ^rend Concourse, Bronx Thursdey, August 19 Mall, Central Park Friday, August 20 Prospect Park Dance ,'rRo Fonday, ..ugust 23 Colonial Park, 153 Street L Bradhurst ..^venue, fen. Tuesday, ..ugust 24 Jewell Playground, Jewell ^ve. & Utopia Parkway, Flushing Wednesday, August 25 Poe Park, 192 Street &· Grand Concourse, Bronx Thursday, august 26 Mall, Central Park Friday, august 27 Prospect Park Dance ~rea Monday, August 30 Bushwick Park Playground, Knickerbocker Avenue £ Putnom Av. Tuesday, August 31 Marconi Playground, 155 Street I 108 Avenue, Jemaico Tcdnesdcy, Sept* 1 Van boytlrndt Perk, 242Street t Broadway, Bronx Thursday, Sept* 2 F e l l , Central VvrY. - . *ridov, Sept, 3 Pr o s pc c t Par Y Dp nc c- Ar e a Vontey, Sc-pt. 6 Leiv ·RrikssMi Plcyground, 66 Street t, 8 Poe p erk, 192 Street f: Grand Concourse, Bronx Thursdo.y, Sept. 9 F e l l , Central Perk Friday, Sept. 10 .Prospect ±D,-rk Dance . r e a Thursday, Sept, 16 Mcll, Central Perk Friday, Sept. 17 Prospect P;/rk Dcnce x\rea · # DEPARTMENT OP PARIS FOR RELEASE Tuesday ARSEE&L, CENTRAL PARK June 2 9 , 1943. TEL. REgent 4-1000 The Department of Parks announces that p r e s e n t a t i o n of awards of t h e New York Community T r u s t ' s Spring Sports Tournament w i l l t a k e place a t t h e c i t y - w i d e f i n a l s of t h e senior bojrs s o f t b a l l game i n Heckscher Playground, Central Psjrk, Manhattan, Tuesday, June 2 9 , 6 P.M. The Honorable Mayor LaGuardia has been i n v i t e d t o open t h e e v e n i n g ' s ceremonies by throwing out t h e f i r s t b a l l . Commissioner Moses and Mr. Ralph Ha^res, r e p r e s e n t i n g t h e New York Community T r u s t , w i l l d i s t r i b u t e t h e awards c o n s i s t i n g of Twenty-Five D o l l a r War Bonds and luggage t o a l l t h e c i t y - w i d e w i n n e r s , who have been summoned for t h i s occasion. Musical s e l e c t i o n s w i l l be provided by t h e Department of S a n i t a t i o n Band. I n a d d i t i o n t o the s o f t b a l l game, an e x h i b i t i o n i n horseshoe p i t c h i n g w i l l be given a t t h e same l o c a t i o n , by t h e finalists and winners of that event. The Spring Sports Tournament, made possible by a $10,000 donation from the He?; York Community Trust, embraced baseball, basketball, bo:dng, handball, horseshoe pitching, paddle tennis, track meet, ping pong, punchball, roller hockey, softball, shuffleboard and swimming, began in April and has attracted 43,644 entrants, who performed before 315,515 spectators. 3,998 prizes consisting of Twenty-Five Dollar War Bonds, leather traveling bags, brief cases, military brushes, leather pocket- books, and other valuable prizes were awarded. The program will bo broadcast by station WFYC. Ad- mission is free. # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK TEL. REgent 4-1000 For Release Monday, June 28, 1943 The Department of Parks announces t h a t t h e f i r s t of a s e r i e s of f i v e concerts by the City ianateur Symphony O r c h e s t r a , with Hon. Leopold Prince as conductor, w i l l be given on the M a l l , C e n t r a l Park, Tuesday, June 29, a t 8:30 P.M. The program f o r t h i s opening concart m i l include well known s e l e c t i o n s by Beethoven, R o s s i n i , Bizet and Sousa. The. four remaining concerts of t h i s s e r i e s w i l l a l s o ba given on the M a l l , Central Pfc.rk, on consecutive Saturday evenings--July 3 , 10, 1 7 , and 24 a t 8:30 P.M. A l l c o n c e r t s w i l l ba broadcast over WYC from 8:30 to 10 o'clock. * OF PARKS I/. EELlASi Saturday. ARSMAI,, OBJpAL PARK TSL. REGENT 4-1000 June 26, 1943 i The Department of Parks announces thaar <-><~. »/{i IT "*% FOR RELEASE Sunday June 13 TELEPHONE: REGENT 4-1000 ^£JF V ""'" ' The Park Department announces that after the evening session at the New York City Building, Flushing Meadow Park, on Sunday, June 13, 1943, roller skating will be discontinued for the summer season. Patronage of the roller rink has decreased rapidly during the past few weeks and, with the recent warm weather, interest in this activity has become so lew that the attendance no longer justifies its continued operation. Both the roller and ice skating rinks will reopen early in the fall. During the past season 235,642 persons availed them- selves of this facility. * Si: .«* DEPARTMENT OF PARKS Arsenal,Central Perk F0I.v. RELEASE Sundey, June 13,1943 Tel. REgent 4-1000 The Department of Parks announces that the Perk Department Puppeteers who, last year, played to 75,000 children, will give a series of open air puppet and marionette shows, including "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Jack and the Beanstalk," daily except Sunday, from June 14 to July 3, inclusive, in various park playgrounds throughout the five boroughs, from an especially constructed trailer stage. The first showing will be made beplnninp; Vonday, June 14, st Dry Harbor Playground, 80th Street and Myrtle Svenue, Queens, Rt 11 A.M. and 3:30 P.K.' "Jack and the Beanstalk" consists of three acts lasting; approximately 45 minutes, while "Little Red Eiding Food11 consists of three acts and lasts about 50 minutes. After a very successful winter season of performances at various public agencies throughout the city, the puppeteers spent a number of weeks in constructinr figures and rehearsing parts for the roles in "Little Red Riding Hood." Peter Pan, the Magic I'an, with his bag of songs and tricks will make his initial seasonal eppeerence st Glendele Play- ground, 78th .Avenue and 74th Street, Glendele, and,Jackson Heights Playground, 84th Street and 30th Avenue, on June 14, st 11 J.K. end 3:30 P.M. respectively. · The shows idll continue to be presented at the various boroughs according to the attached schedule: Queens - June 14 to 17, inclusive Bronx - June 18 to 22, inclusive Manhattan - June 23 to 27,inclusive Brooklyn - June 28 to July 1, inclusive Richmond - July 2 end 3 *» CITY OF NEW YGxiK DEPARTMENT OF SCHEDULE OF TRAILER MARIONETTE THEATRE 1943 "RED RIDING HOOD" & "JACK AMD THE BEANSTALK/1 QUEENS, Monday June 14 Dry Harbor Playground .11 A* M. & 3:30 P. M. 80 Street and Myrtle Avenue Tuesday Juno 15 Liberty Park 3:30 P. M. Liberty Avenue and 172 Street 7'Jednesday June 16 Maurice Playground, Borden, 3:30 P. M. Maurice and 54 Avenues, Maspeth Thursday June 17 Queensbridge Playground, 21 Avenue and Vemon Boulevard 3:30 P. M. 3R0NX Friday June 18 Glaremont Park North Plgd., 11 A. M. & 3:30 P. M. Teller and Mt. Eden Avenues Saturday June 19 Poe Park, East 192 Street 11 A. M. & 3:,"30 P. M. and Grand Concourse Monday June 21 Watson, Gleason and Noble 11 A. M. & 3:30 P. M. Avenues Playground Tuesday June 22 St. Mary's East Play ground, 11 A. M. & 3:,X) P . M. 14S Street and Trinity Avenue Alf Wednesday June 23 J . ilood .iirigj.it Playground, 175 11 A. M. & 3:30 P . M. S t r e e t & ?i. Washington Avenue Thursday June 24 Kelly Playground, 17 Street 11 A. M. & 3:30 P. M. n e a r 8 Avenue Friday June 25 Mt. Morris East Playground, 11 At M. & 3:30 P. M. 120 Street and Madison Avenue Saturday June 27 Ileckscher Playground, 11 A. M. & 3:30 P. M. 65 Street and Central Park BROOKLYN Monday June 28 McCarren Play Center 11 A. M. & 3:30 P. M. Driggs and Lorimer Street Tuesday June 29 Ne,r Lots Playground, Riverdale 11 A. K. & 3:30 P. M. Avenue and Sackraan Street Wednesday June 30 Sunset Playground, 6 Avenue & 11 A. M. & 3:30 P. M. 44 Street Thursday July 1 Kelly Memorial Playground, 11 A. M. & 3:30 P. M. Avenue S and East 14 Street Friday July 2 Clove Lakes Park, Victory 11 A. M. Blvd. & Clove ltd.., west Bri.v'iton Silver Lake Park, Victory Blvd. 3:30 P. M. and Forest Avenue, West Brighton Saturday July 3 Lev/ Playground, Jewett and 11 A. M. Castleton Avenua, Pt. Richmond CITY OF N S J Y0i?K DSPMlTIvENT OF PAJK8 ******************* I IA.GIO SONG 3USSN3 Monday, June 14 - Glendale Playground, 78 Avenue 11 A, M. and 74 S t r e e t , Glendale Jackson Hei-silts Playground, 3:'.>G P.M. 84 Street and 30 Avenue Tuesday, June 15 - 30th ~i.oad Playground, 45 S t r e e t 11 A . II.& and 30 .-.toad, Astoria 3:30 P.M. "Wednesday, June 16- Daniel O'Connell ?la3r£i*ound, 11.A. M. & 113 S t . & 196 S t . , S t . Aibans 3:30 P.M. Thursday, June 17- Tudor Playground,N. Conduit Ave. 11 A , M . & 80 & 88 S t s . , S. 9zone Park 3:50 P.1.1. B30NX Friday, June 18 - Zimmerman Playground, Oli'nville 11 -s.. Li. & Avenue and B r i t t o n S t r e e t 3: " JO P.M. Saturday, June 13-Jillianisbridge Oval, D. 208 S t . 11 A. Ivi. & Bainbridge Avenue S t . James Plays-oound, Jerocie 3:30 P. M. Avenue and E. 191 S t . Monday, June 21 - Lyons Square Playground, Aldus S t . , 11 A . M. & Bryant and vJhitlock Avenue 3;30 P.M. Tuesday, June 22 - Liullaly Hecreation Building, 11 A. M. & Jerome Avenue & 3. 165 St. 3:30 P . M. MANHATTAN "Wednesday,June 23- East River Drive and 12 Street 11 >t. M. Playground Corlears iiook Playground, foot 3::o P.M. of Jackson Street, & Cherry St. Thursday, June 24- Se.iard Park, East Broadway and Canal Street Columbus Park, Baxter and Jorth 3 : . 50 P. ,k. Streets Friday , June 25 - Lewis and ..iivin^ton Strosts Plgd. 11 . M, 3ulick Playground, Sheriff, ^0 P. lu Broome and DsL.ncey Streets Saturday,June 26 - Kelly Playground, 17 Street near 11 A 8 Avenue Downing Playground, Downing & 3:30 P. .1.1. Carmine Streets kioniay, June 28 - lit. Morris .Jest Play^r-eund, Nathan 11 . i Davis Place and 'J. 122 Street ' McCray Playground, . ;' . 138 Street, 3&: P, ,M. between 5th and tenox Avsnues BROOKLYN Tuesday, June 29 - New Utrecht Avenue . nd 70 S t . PlX) P.M. * ** .J. 0>n'^) DEPARTMENT OF PARKS F0R ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK HELEASE TEL. REGENT 4-1000 June 12, 1943 The Department of Parks announces a series of 33 concerts under the sponsorship of a number of commercial organizations arranged by the American Federation of Musicians Local 802. These concerts will be presented at various parks in the city beginning with the first concert on Sunday, June 13, 3:30 P.M. at the Music Grove, Forest Park, Queens, and continuing until Thursday, September 2, according to the attached schedule. Because of the travel restrictions due to war necessities, the schedule has been so arranged that these concerts will be conducted at 27 diversified areas. There will be ten afternoon concerts and the remainder will be held in the evening. The sponsoring organizations are: The N*w York Central System, Manufacturers T 'ust Company, New York Telephone Company, International Business Machine Corporation, Prudential Steamship Company, Skouras Theatres Corporation and Cushman Sons Inc, Attach. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS CITY OF NEW YORK Presents - SERIES OF CONCERTS SPONSORED BY COMORO IAL..ORGANIZATIONS I n Cooperation With Local 802, A. F . of M. Sun. June* 13 3;30 p.m. F o r e s t Park Music Grove, Woodhaven B l v d . & Myrtle Ave, York C e n t r a l System Tues, June 15 7:00 p.m. Queenabridge Housing P l g d . , Vernon B l v d . , 40 Ave. & E.R. Manufacturers T r u s t Co, T h u r s . June 17 7:00 p.m. L i n c o l n Torraoe P l g d . , Rochester & E . N.Y. A v e . , Bklyn* Cushman's Sons, I n c . Sun, June .20 3:30 p.m. Poe P a r k , 192 S t r e e t & Grand Concourse, Bronx New York Telephone Co, Wed, June 23 12 noon Union Square Park, Manhattan Skouras T h e a t r e s Corp, Thurst June 24 7sOO p.m. Grover Cleveland P l g d # , Stanhope S t , & F a i r v i e w Ave, Q. Manufacturers T r u s t Co, Sun, June 27 3:30 p»m. Tompkins Square P a r k , 10 S t . & Ave, A (New B l d g . ) New York Telephone Co, Tues. June 29 7:00 p.m. Neptune Ave & West 25 S t r e e t P l g d . , Brooklyn I n t e r n a t i o n a l B u s i n e s s Machine Corp. T h u r s , July 1 7:00 p.m. Betsy Head P l g d . , Dumont & Hopkinson A v c s , , Bklyn. Fcnufcicturcrs T r u s t Co, Sun. Jul3>" 4 7:00 p.m. Thomas J e f f e r s o n Park, 113 S t , 4- E a s t River D r i v e , Man. New York Telephone Co. Tues. July 6 7:00 p.m. Red Hook Park Stadium, Richard & Pioneor S t s , , Bklyn Cushman's Sons, I n c . Thurs. July 8 7:00 p.m. Bushwick P l g d . , Knickerbocker & Putnam A v e s , , B k l y n . P r u d e n t i a l Steamship Co. Sun. J u l y 11 3:30 p.m. F o r e s t Park,Music Grove, Woodhaven B l v d . L Myrtle Avc, Q I n t e r n a t i o n a l Businc-ss Machine C o r p . Tues. J u l y 13 3:30 p.m. Orchard Beach, Bronx Manufacturers T r u s t Co, T h u r s . July 15 7:00 p.m. Sunset P o o l , 7 Ave. t 44 S t r e e t , Bklyn. New York Telephone Co. Sun. July 18 3:30 p.m. King P a r k , Jamaica Ave. & 150 S t r e e t , Queens Skouras Theatres C o r p , - 2 - Tucs. July 20 7:00 p.m. Riverside Park at 105 S t r e e t , Manhattan Fanu fa. o tur or s Trust Go. Thurs. July 22 7:00 p.m, Crotona Pool, East 173 St. & Pulton Ave., Bronx York Telephone- Co. Tucs. July 27 7:00 p.m. Colonial Prrk, Bradhurst Ave. & 146 S t . , Man. Prudential Steamship o. Thurs. July 29 7:00 p.m. MaCarren Pool, Driggs Avc. & Lorimcr S t . , Bklyn. lew York Telephone Co. Sun. Aug. 1 3:30 p.m. Forest Park Music Grove, Myrtle Ave. & Woodhsvcn Blvd.Q Manufacturers Trust Co. Tucs. Aug. 3 7:00 p.m. S t . Mary's Park, E. Trinity Avc. & S t . Mary's S t . Bronx Cushrrnns Sons, I n c . Thurs. Aug. 5 7:00 p.m. Chelsea Park. 28 S t r e e t & 9 Ave., Manhattan New York Telephone Co. Sun. Aug. 8 3:30 p.m. Poc- Park, 192 Street & Grand Concourse, Bronx New York Central System Tucs. Aug. 10 3:30 p.m. Orchard Beach, Bronx Manufacturers Trust Co. Thurs. Aug. 12 7:00 p.m. State Anphitbrntrc., Flushing Jfcc;dov Prrk, Queens Skouras Theatres Corp. Tucs. Aug. 17 7:00 p.m. River Park a t Rivington S t r e e t , Manhattan New York Telephone Co. 1/ir Thurs. Aue. 19 7:00 p.m. illia.msbridgc Oval, 208 S t . & Bairibridgc Avc«, Bronx Manufacturers Trust Co. Sun. Aug. 22 7:00 p.m. Playground a t Albany & East New York Avcs,, Brooklyn New York Telephone Co. Tucs. Aug. 24 7:00 p.m. Hamilton Fish Pool, P i t t & Stanton S t s . , Manhattan Manufacturers Trust Co, Thurs. Aug. 26 7s00 p.m. Colonial Park, 146 Street & Bradhurst Ave., Manhattan New York Telephone Co. Tucs. Aug. 31 7:00 p.m. McCombs Dam Park, 161 S t . L Jerome Avc., Bronx Manufacturers Trust Co. Thurs. Sept. 2 7:00 p.m. Thomaa Jefferson Park, 114 S t . b 1 Avc., Manhattan New York Central System · DEPARTIISNT OF TURKS AJasa&Al, CI8TRAI. PARK A F0H Friday, TEL. fiEGSTP 4-1000 June 1 1 , 1943 The Department of Parks announces the b i r t h of an eight pound fallow deer a t the Prospect Park Zoo on June 7. The father Spike, and the mother E l s i e , were anonymous donations to the zoo in 1935, The new a r r i v a l i s doing well and photographs aay be taken a t any time. * * * * DSFARTISSHT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE Friday,, TSL. REGENT 4-1000 June 1 1 , 1943 The Department of Parks announces that the New York Community Trust's Spring Tournament is approaching a climax beginning Friday, June 11, through Sunday, June 13, with district finals in swimming and borough finals in baseball, soitball and track meets. Throughout the past week 17,000 spectators have witnessed 45 games of elimination in this tournament. The senior boys on the winning baseball and softball teams will be the recipients of military brushes, and the juniors a ball and glove, while the winning girls team will be awarded handsome leather handbags. The district winners in the swimming events will receive suitable prizes. BASEBALL - BOROUGH FINALS June 12 - Manhattan, North Meadow P l a y g r o u n d , 100 S t . & West Drive 3J00 P.M. June 13 - Brooklyn, Parade Grounds, Coney I s l a n d cc Caton Avenues 4:00 P.M. June 11 - Queens, V i c t o r y F i e l d , Woodhaven Boulevard & Myrtle Avenue 6:00 P.M. June 13 - Bronx, S t . M a r y ' s P a r k , S t . M a r y ' s S t . & Jackson Avenue 11:00 A.M. June 13 - Richmond, Clove Lakes P a r k , V i c t o r y Blvd. & Clove Road 10:00 A.M. SOFTBALL - BOROUGE FINALS p__ JL6_ .yjsars June 13 - Brooklyn, L i n c o l n T e r r a c e P l g d , , Buffalo & R o c h e s t e r Avenues 4:00 P.M. June 13 - Bronx, Crotona P a r k East n e a r C h a r l o t t e S t r e e t 2:00 P.M. June 14 - Richmond, S i l v e r Lake P a r k , West New B r i g h t o n 4:00 P.M. June 13 - Manhattan, Eeckscher Plgd., 62 St. & West Drive, Central Park 3:00 P.M. June 13 - Brooklyn, Lincoln Terrace Plgd., Buffalo & Rochester Avenues 6:00 P.M. June 13 - Bronx, Crotona Park near Charlotte Street 10130 A.M. June 14 - Richmond, Silver Lake Park, West Kew Brighton 6S00 P.M. June i f Manhattan, Heckscher P l g d . , 62 S t . & West D r i v e , C e n t r a l Par 6:00 P.M. June 12 Brooklyn, Lincoln T e r r a c e P l g d . , Buffalo & R o c h e s t e r Avenues 6:00 P.M. June 13 Bronx, Crotona P a r k near C h a r l o t t e S t r e e t 12:00 Noon TRACK MEETS _-_ BOROUGH FIKALS June 12 Brooklyn, Red Hook Stadium, Bay & Court S t r e e t s 2:30 P.M. June 12 Bronx, Macombs Dam P a r k , East 162 S t r e e t & R i v e r Avenue 1:00 P.M. June 12 Richmond, Clove Lakes P a r k , Clove Road & V i c t o r y Blvd. 10:00 A.M. June 13 Queens, V i c t o r y F i e l d , Woodhaven'Blvd. & Myrtle Avenue 1:00 P.M. June 11 - Richmond, Faber Pool, Richmond Terrace at Faber Street 4:00 P.M. t! " " Lyons Pool, Victory Blvd., Bay St. & Murray Hulbert Ave. 4:00P.M. June 12 - Manhattan, Thomas Jefferson Pool, 111-114 St. & 1st Avenue 11:00 A.M. i! it «t Carmine St. Pool, Clarkson Street & 7 Avenue 11:00 A.M. tl n n Hamilton Fish Pool, East Houston & Pitt Street 2:00 P.M. fl n !t Colonial Pool, Bradhurst Avenue & W. 145 Street 10:00 A.M. If tf « Highbridge Pool, Amsterdam Ave. & 173 Street 11:00 A.M. June 13 - ft East 23 St. Pool, last River Drive at 23 Strsst 11:00 A.M. n n tt West 60 St. Pool, 11 Avenue & West 60 Street 2:00 P.M. tt n If John Jay Pool, 78 Street & East River Drive 2:00 P.M. June 12 & 13 - Brooklyn, McCarren Pool, Driggs £s Lorimer Streets 2:00 P.M. 1 1 " " - Queens, Astorie, Pool, 19 Street & 23 Drive 1:00 P.M. June 12 - Bronx, Crotona Pool, 173 Street & Fulton Avenue 10:00 A.M. · * * DEPARTMENT OF PARKS \ ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR R Wednesday, TEL. SKBNT 4-1000 June 9, 1943 Because of the heavy and early usage tliis year of the beaches by the bathing public, the Department of Parks has found it necessary to restriqt surf casting fishing at Rockaway and Coney Island to the hours listed below:- Rockaway Beach, Beach 17 to Beach 19 Streets - dawn to 8 A.M.· Rockaway Beach, Beach 19 to Beach S3 Streets - daylight hours Rockaway Beach, Beach 23 to Beach 73 Streets - davm to 8 A.K,' Rockaway Beach, Beach 126 to Beach 149 Streets - dawn to 8 A,M»· 3ay 13, Jacob Riis Park, Keponsit - davm to 8 A.M. BROOKLYN Coney Island, Bay 14, east of Steeplechase Pier - dawn to 8 A.M.' * * * DEPARTIviajT OF PARKS V | P ARSfflAL, CJETRAL PARK cpTf}, f> I H U " ^ Fnl^H^ASE Friday, T TSL. HBGfflJT 4-1000 % yJ , ' * June 4, 1943 The Department of Parks announces that the city-wide finals of the New York Community Trust's Spring Tournament in Basketball will be hald on Sunday, June 6, at 11:00 A.M., at Victor/ Field, Woodhaven Boulevard and Hyrtle Avenue, Queens, and in Girls Punchball at Roosevelt Playground, Forsyth and Chrystie Streets, Manhattan, on Saturday, June 5, at 2:30 P.M. There are three divisions in basketball, Junior Boys 12 to 16, Senior Boys, 16 to 18 and Senior Girls, 14 to 18 years. The contenders for the championship will play off at Victory Field as follows: J r . Boys Basketball - 11:00 A.M. - Sunday, June 6 The Bronx boys from Spoffard Avenue Playground will meet the winner of the Brooklyn-Richmond game which i s to be played off at Roosevelt Playground on Saturday. Sr. Boys Basketball - 3t00 P.M. - Sunday, June 6 The boys on the O'Connell Playground Team representing Queens w i l l play the winner of the Brooklyn-Richmond game to be played off on Saturday at Roosevelt Playground. Girls Basketball - 1:00 P.M. - Sunday, June 6 The g i r l s of the Astoria Playground Team representing Queens w i l l take on the winners of the Brooklyn-Richmond game which will have been played on Saturday. How that the teams are running down the home stretch, the final game in each division promises to be very lively, interesting and keenly contested. All of these teams are semi-finalists, who have survived an arduous series of eliminations. A t o t a l of 516 basketball games were played during Kay, and the teams now comin g out on top show real championship quality, keen, fast and well organized. The Girls Punchball contest consists of one division for g i r l s 14 to 18 years. Representing Queens, the team from Broadway and 78 Street Play- ground will meet the Lynch & Lee Avenues Playground team from Brooklyn, on Saturday, June 5, at 2:30 P.M., at Roosevelt Playground. This i s the champion- ship game. Each member of the winning team in the Junior and Senior Boys basket- b a l l divisions will receive a handsome leather gladstone bag, vfoile members of the runner-up teams will receive a leather brief case. ^The winning members of the g i r l s toams in both punchball and basketball w i l l receive airplane luggage. The second place winners will get silk umbrellas. A? D2PARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK I F0R Thursday, TIL. REGENT June 3, 1943 The Department" of P a r k s announces t h a t t h e c i t y - w i d e f i n a l s o f t h e Boxing Championships i n t h e New York Community T r u s t ' s Spring Tournament w i l l be conducted a t McCarren P a r k , Driggs Avenue and Lorimer S t r e e t , Brooklyn, on F r i d a y , June 4 , a t 7:00 P.M. Admission i s f r e e . These b o u t s embrace two a g e d i v i s i o n s of boys 14 t o 16 and 16 t o 18 years, with six bouts in the Junior and five bouts in the Senior division. The Junior group w i l l contest t i t l e s , ranging from the 85 l b . class to the 135 lb. class, while the Seniors will decide the championships in the 118 l b . to the 160 l b . c l a s s . The boys appearing in these finals have fought their way through a series of eliminations starting in the d i s t r i c t finals and emerging as the victors in the city semi-finals. The winners in each weight classification will receive a Twenty-Five Dollar War Bond and the runner-up w i l l be awarded a brief case. Following are the boys competing in the final bouts: JUNIORS 85 lb. class Alfred Wilkinson (Man.) VS Kenneth McLain (Bronx) 95 lb. class Leon Russel (Kan.) VS John I n g e n i t o (Brooklyn) 105 lb. class Angelo Luonga (Man.) VS Steve Y e l l o v i c h (Richmond) 118 lb. class Ssme Springer (Man.) VS Frank DeBerardino (Richmond) 126 lb. class Al Lind, Jr. (Man.) VS William Wells (Brooklyn) SENIORS 118 lb. class Cecil Schoonmaker (Man.) VS Tony Giammarino (Brooklyn) 126 l b . class William White (Man.) VS Stephan Mascueci (Bronx) 135 l b . c l a s s Robert Williams (Man.) VS Howard Ward (Bronx) 147 lb. class Vernon Manley (Bronx) VS Roy A l l e n (Brooklyn) 160 lb. class Carlo Anderson (Bronx) VS Gregory Siragusa (Queens) SPECIAL 155 lb. JUNIOR CLASS Angelo ChiapPerino(Rich.) VS Andy Camera (Brooklyn) The official judges will be Henry Kremens, Joseph L. Hedberg, A.A.U. boxing official, and Oscar Michaud, time-keeper, of the Department of Parks. Referees will be Ben "Shadow" Carubia, National Golden Glove Champion and Bernard Newman, A.A.U. boxing official. * *** PifflK FOR .HSLBASB Wednesday, EBGBlT 4-1000 "" June 2, 194-3 I have been asked by the newspapers to comment on the item listed as No. 17 on the Planning Commission calendar for June 2nd, This is a substitute for the proposed amendment to Section Sl-c which was considered by the Planning Comciission a few months ago, which I opposed. While the immediate objective of both resolutions was to permit the Sylvania Products Company to build an industrial laboratory adjacent to the Clsarview (toIf Course, the safeguards provided are entirely different. The original proposal permitted the Board of Standards and Appeals, with the approval of the Planning Commission to authorize the construction of any kind of industrial, business or other development in any area, with what- ever safeguards they night require. The new proposal requires the applicant to go through the same procedure prescribed for a change in zone. Ho must submit the application to the Planning Commission, where a hearing will be held on the design and use of the structures. It would then go to the Board of Estimate for approval* If twenty per cent of the people in the surrounding area oppose such an item, it will then require the unanimous vote of the 3oard of Estimate. Thus any member of the Board could block the project. The resolution as proposed provides more safeguards than the Zoning He solution, because it requires complete approval of the -proposed use of the individual structures, approval of architectural plans, and plans of the open spaces around tho buildings. The proposed resolution specifically provides that all projects raust be "consistent with arid designed to promote and benefit the value and use of the property in such (-residential) districts or in areas which are predominantly residential - ." It requires that the site must contain at least ten acres and that at least twenty-five per cent of the property shall consist of a landscaped park area to which the public shall have access, subject to reasonable restrictions. Not more than twenty-five percent of the area can be covered with buildings and the ratio of the floor area of the buildings and structures shall not exceed .5 of the area of the plot. No buildings are permitted to be more than fifty feet in height. Obnoxious uses presently listed under Sections 4-a and 4-b of the existing Zoning Resolution are prohibited by this proposal. -2- If the proposed use as approved by the Planning Commission and the Board of Estimate is to be changed in any way, the petitioner must file a new application and go through a new hearing. I am convinced that a section such as this, which can be used to encourage a laboratory such as the Sylvania Products proposes to settle in New York, should be made a part of the zoning resolution and, unless some objections that I have not considered are raised at the Planning Commission hearing, I intend to vote favorably on the proposal. Once this amendment is approved by the Planning Commission and the Board of Estimate, it will be possible for the Sylvania Products Corporation to submit an application to the Planning Commission, and at that time those interested will be given an opportunity to be heard for and against the proposal. Sylvania Products have advised me that they will limit the use strictly to an industrial laboratory and administrative offices. As yet, they have made no formal application and it is impossible to pass judgment in advance. They are also preparing a model which will show just what they propose. They indicate that the plan is similar in principle to Nela Park, the National Electric Light Association model plant at Cleveland, Ohio. It is my honest belief that the proposed amendment and the Sylvania Flan will improve the neighborhood, protect Clearview Park and the Belt Parkway, and will in no way endanger private homes in this section. If I believed otherwise, I should not vote for it. /s/ ROBERT MOSES .<>** ^ . fAJL, OMTRAL PARK FO^ HHSAS3 , Itjonday^, ^ R3G1ST 4-1000 -7 / / May 3 1 , 1943 The Department of Parks offers a complete summer program of recreation for those who because of the pleasure driving ban must seek recreation within the city. The expanded park system provides withing walking distance or within a five or ten cent rapid transit fare, recreation areas of all types. Facilities such as the average New Yorker expects to find only miles from the city are now available liter-ally at his back door. There are sixteen picnic areas with fireplaces, one of which is along the shore front at Plum Beach in Brooklyn.,; In cooperation with the Girl Scouts of America the department has arranged an expanded program of Day Camps in the Bronx, Queens and Richmond. The camps will open on July 1 and end on August 13. All girls whether or not they are Girl Scouts are welcome and the charge for a two week period is fifty cents. The girls bring their own meals and will enjoy all that goes with camp life except that they will not live on the camp grounds. They will be taught caiapcraft, handicraft, folk dancing, singing, photography, and all that goes with a summer camp. The department is assigning personnel to aid in carrying out this program. Rowboating on a lake? Six locations are available within the city limits and within not more than ten. cents fare from any borough. Nature trails are also available as well as modern zoos in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Bronx and Richmond. Seventeen outdoor swimming pools will reopen on Saturday, May 29, for weekend operation until June 20, after which time they will remain open daily. Glasses in swimming will again be arranged this year for both adults and children in connection with which preinduction swimming" wi 11 be tau^it to the young men and women who are about to join the armed forces. At the same I--\ 5 * / - 2 - time tlie five municipally operated beaches will also open. Bathhouse accommoda- tions at Jacob Riis Park in Rockaway and Orchard Beach in the Bronx will be available on weekends until June 20 when they too will start daily operation. Golfers who this year must seek courses nearer their koines will find ten well equipped and operated courses readily accessible by local transit facilities. Permits, good at any of the ten courses, cost |>5. per season plus 100 per day's play on week days and 500 per day on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Daily permits are sold at the courses at a charge of 750 for week day play and $1. per day on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. The Park Department offers 522 tennis courts at 4-6 locations through- out the city. These bring tennis courts to within walking distance from nost areas in the city. Season permits, good at any of the locations, cost §3. per season and can be purchased at an?/ of the borough offices of ths department. In order to acquaint the public with these facilities, the Department of Parks has published a folder setting forth over 200 facilities now ready for the summer season. These folders can be obtained by writing to the Department of Parks, Arsenal Building, Central Park, Manhattan, or at any Park Department facility; the request must be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. (FOEDBR ENCLOSED.) DEPARTMENT OF PARES .ARSENAL, CMTRAL PARE FOR RELEASE Saturday, TIL. BWrMS 4-1000 C May 29, 1943 The Department of Parks announces t h a t t h e f i r s t of a s e r i e s of four Kaumburg Memorial Concerts w i l l be given on the Mall, C e n t r a l Park, on Decoration Day, Sunday, May 30, a t 3$15 P.M. . The t h r e e remaining concerts w i l l also be given on t h e Mall on: July 4 , July 31 and Labor Day, September 6, at 3:15 P.M. This concert s e r i e s i s c o n t r i b u t e d by Mr. Walter W. Kaumburg and Mr. George W. Kaumburg, in iaemory of t h e i r father, Mr. Elkan Nauaburg, wlio donated t h e bandstand on t h e M a l l . Tha Decoration Da3^ concert w i l l be given by t h e Naumburg Orchestra with Saerson Buckley as Conductor, and I n a De Martino, Soprano, S o l o i s t . The program w i l l include s e l e c t i o n s by such famous a r t i s t s a s : Tschaikowsky, L i s z t , Gounod, S t r a u s s , Moussorgsky and Mendelssohn. * * * * PARTMSJT OF PARKS JS2KAL, CENTRAL PARE R R3I3ASE Friday, TSL. RIGffiT 4-1000 May 28, 1943 The Department of Parks announces t h a t t h e city-wide f i n a l s of t h e New York Community T r u s t ' s Spring Tournament in handball w i l l take place on Saturday, May 29, at Highland Park, Jamaica Avenue and Elton S t r e e t , at 2 P.M., and in shuffle board on Sunday, May 30, at 2 P.M., a t North Meadow Playground, 100 Street and West Drive, Central Park. There w i l l be four divisions in both a c t i v i t i e s , one for boys and g i r l s between 12 and 16 y e a r s , and another for those 16 t o 18 y e a r s . These c o n t e s t a n t s a r e t h e winners in each of the five boroughs, who have won out in inter-playground, d i s t r i c t and borough e l i m i n a t i o n s . The winner in each d i v i s i o n w i l l receive a Twenty-Five Dollar War Bond, The runner-up in t h e boys d i v i s i o n s w i l i receive a l e a t h e r b r i e f case and in the g i r l s d i v i s i o n s , a b e a u t i f u l umbrella. Following a r e t h e c o n t e s t a n t s who w i l l represent t h e various boroughs? SHUFFLE BOARD Manhattan J r . Boys James Leary North Meadow Plgd., Central Park Jrf Girls Catherine Byrna North Meadow Plgd,, Central Park Sr. Boys Robert Sben North Meadow Plgd., Central Park Sr. G i r l s Catherine Leary North Meadow Plgd., Central Park Brooklyn Jr. Boys Henry Hollander LaGuardia Playground Jr. Girls Frances 3ruman Fort Hamilton High School Playground Sr, Boys Murray Hollander LaGuardia Playground Sr. Girls Geraldine Boundy 3 Avo. & Schermerhorn St. Playground Q,ueens Jr. Boys Henry Kopf Grover Cleveland Playground Jr. Girls Pauline Tomita Dry Harbor Playground Sr. Boys Joseph Faltenmayer Benninger Playground Sr. Girls Mae Munch O'Connor Playground, Bay side Bronx Jr. Boys David Yanis Williamsbridge Playground Jr. Girls Muriel Brown St. Mary's Playground 3ast Sr* Boys Melvin Wechsler Crotona Playground Sr. Girls Blanche Shear Mullaly Playground Richmond Jr. Boys Lester Heim Schmul Playground Jr. Girls Joan Slater- Lincoln Avenue Playground Sr. Boys John Mclsaac McDonald Playground Sr. Girls Rose Marie Sava Mahoney Playground ILAJUOJLJ-Js Manhattan Jr. Boys Morris Weintraub Gulick Playground Jr. Girls Sylvia Tarshis J . Eood Wright Playground Sr. Boys Jack Gundersen J. Eood Wright Playground Sr, Girls Kathleen Johnstone Inwood Park Brooklyn Jr. Boys Louis Ivliele Hew Utrecht Playground Jr. Girls Mary Jane Andriola Gravesend Playground Sr. Boys Bert Slobodkin Lincoln Terrace Playground Sr, Girls Gloria Manocchio Fort Hamilton H.igh School Playground (Queens Jr, Boys Henry Soto Jewel Avenue Playground Jr. Girls Bthlyn Mason Thompson Kill Playground Sr, Boys Victor J , Hartung Braddock Playground Sr. Girls Blanche Reeth Grover Cleveland Playground Jr, Boys Anthony Cassella Zisaraerman Playground Jr. Girls Beatrice Webman Crotona Playground Sr, Boys Gustave Trotsky Crotona Playground Sr, air Is Adele Low Crotona Playground Richmond Jr, Boys Frank Wescott McDonald Playground Jr. Girls Vinny "Viscariello Lincoln Avenue Playground Sr, Boys Joseph Sinski Mahoney Playground Sr, Girls Sarah Lyons Ealtenmeier Playground * * * * * OF PARKS 7 A ARSMAL, CBSTRAI. PARK FOR RELEASE Friday, TELEPEONE: REGENT 4-1000 "May 28, 1943" The Department of Parks announces the opening of tie seventeen outdoor swimming pools on Saturday, May 29, 1943 at 10 A.M. The pools are located as follows: Manhattan: Hamilton Fish Pool, East Houston and Pitt Streets Colonial Pool, 3radhurst Avenue West 145 Street to 147 Street Highbridge Pool, Amsterdam Avenue and 173 Street Thos. Jefferson Pool, H I to 114 Streets & First Avenue 23rd Street Pool, 23 Street and 2ast River Drive Carmine Street Pool, Clarkson Street and 7 Avenue 60th Street Pool, 59 Street between Amsterdam & 11 Avenues John Jay Pool, 78 Street and 3ast River Drive Brooklyn: Sunset Pool, 7 Avenue and 43 Street McCarren Pool, Driggs Avenue and Lorimer Street Red Eook Pool, Clinton, Bay and Iienry Streets Betsy Head Pool, Hopkinson, Dumont and Livonia Avenues Bronx: Crotona Pool, 173 Street and Fulton Avenue Queens: Astoria Pool, 19 Street and 23 Drive Flushing Meadow Amphitheatre, Flushing Meadow Park Richmond: Faber Pool, Richmond. Terrace at Faber Street Tompkinsville Pool, Victory Boulevard between Bay Street and Murray Hulbert Avenue From May 29 to June 20 the pools w i l l be open for weekends and holidays only and from June 21 u n t i l the end of the season they will be open daily with the following operating schedule. On weekdays and Saturdays from 10 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. there will be a free period for children under fourteen years of age during which hours no adults w i l l be admitted to the pool area. Aftar 1 P.M. on weekdays and a l l day Sundays and holidays there will be a 9$ charge for children under 12 years of age and a 250 charge for older children and adults. Groups in swimming, diving and water shows w i l l be organized at a l l pools. Classes in swimming, life saving and f i r s t aid will also be included in the aquatic program. Orchard Beach, Palham Bay Park in the Bronx; Jacob Riis Park Beach and Rockaway Beach in the Rockaway Peninsular, Quoens; Coney Island Beach, Brooklyn, and South Beach and Wolfe's Pond Park in Staten Island will also officially open on Saturday, May 29. Bathhouse f a c i l i t i e s at Jacob Riis Park and Orchard Beach will operate on the same schodule as the outdoor pools. From Kay 29 to Juris 20 the bath- houses will be open for weekends and holidays only and from June 21 u n t i l the end of the season they will be open daily. At Orchard Beach there i s a t o t a l of 7,7S6 lockers for bathhouse patrons and at Jacob Riis Park the bathhouse accommodates 10,000 people. Batiaiouse fee is 150 for children's lockers and 250 for adult lockers. Dressing rooms are available at Jacob Riis Park for a fee of 500 per person. Recrea- tional areas at Jacob Riis Park and Orchard Beach providing shuffle board, paddle tennis and handball are available to the public. The charge for the use of these facilities will be 100 per person per half hour. Besides these games at Jacob Eiis Park there is also an 18 hole Pitch Putt Golf Course. A charge of 500 is made for each round of golf which includes clubs. A 500 deposit is required on golf balls. In addition to these games areas a special schedule of events is planned for Jacob Riis Park. There will be calisthenics on the beach each day at 2 P.M. and each Wednesday beginning July 1 will be Children's Day, races with contests and games staged in the outfield of the softball area. These special activities are free and patrons of the beach are invited to join in the fun. Similar activities have been scheduled for Orchard Beach. Beginning Monday, June 15, at Jacob Riis Park, there will be twilight softball games every week day except Saturday, the games starting at 6:30 P.M. On Saturdays and Sundays a single game will be played starting at 2:30 P.M. Bleachers have been provided for 1,000 persons. Beach chairs and umbrellas may be rented at Orchard Beach and Jacob Riis Park at a nominal charge and beach shops are provided whero bathing accessories can be purchased* In accord with the policy set up by the Department of Parks last year, all uniformed members of the armed forces of the United Nations will be admitted to the outdoor pools and bathhouse facilities without charge. All the facilities listed can be readily reached by the New York City Transit System and the Park Department has issued a folder setting forth facilities and transit directions. These folders are available at all Park Department facilities and can also be secured by writing to the Park Department Headquarters, Arsenal Building, 64th Street and Fifth Avenue, Central Park, Manhattan. * * Y :t $ XBRAHDQNF OF PARKS ARSENAL, · CENTRAL PARK .L . FOR SSLB&SE TSL. RBGMC 4-1QOO / May 23, 1943 " · The" ^Department of Parks announces that the City-wide Finals of Faddl© Tennis and Roller Hockey in the New York Community Trust's Spring Tournament, w i l l take place on Sunday, May 23, at 2 P.M. The paddle tennis championships w i l l be decided at City Park, Flushing Avenue and Kavy Street, Brooklyn, vfcilo the r o l l e r hockey teams vri.ll meet in Carl Schurz Park, Sast 84 Street and 3&st 2nd Avenue, Manhattan* There will be four divisions in paddle tennis, one for boys and g i r l s between 12 and 16 years and another foi1 those 16 to 18 years. Tha r o l l e r hockey tournament consists of one division for boys, 14 to 18 years. The contestants in both events are the borough f i n a l i s t s , who have survived inter-playground and d i s t r i c t eliminations. The f i r s t place winners in the paddle tennis events will receive a Twenty-Five Dollar War Bond, while the runner-up in the boys division w i l l receive a leather brief case and in the g i r l s division a beautiful s i l k umbrella. Sach member of the winning team in roller hockey w i l l receive a leather Gladstone traveling bag, and tlie boys on tlie runner-up team will be awarded leather brief cases. Following are the contestants wLo will represent the various boroughs in paddle tennis: MANHATTAN: Jr. Boys Fred Hirshfield North Meadow Playground, Central Park Jr. airIs Dolores DiFelice 102 St. & Riveiside Playground Sr. Boys Robert Deneboude 102 St. & Riverside Playground Sr. Girls Althea Gibson Colonial Play Center BROOKLYN* Jr. Boys Henry Blazek JSlton & New Lots Playground Jr. Girls Mary Mezowiez McCarfen Park Sr. Boys Jack Slotnich Kelly Memorial Playground Sr. Girls Ruth Singer LaGuardia Playground QJJ2EWS: Jr. Boys Henry Bischoff Francis Lewis Playground Jr. Girls Mary June Weir Broadway & 78 St. Plgd., Jackson Heights Sr. Boys y Joseph p Leo Van Wyck Plgd., , South Ozone Park Sr. Girls Marion Grossman Van lyck Plgd., South Ozone Park BRONX: Jr. Boys Carl Kaplan Crotona Playground Jr. Girls lairiel Brown St. Mary's Park, West Playground Sr. Boys Harold Goldstein Lyons Square Playground Sr, Girls Annette DePrimio Sast 182 St. & Belmont Ave. Playground RICHMOND: Jr. Boys Dimitri Daras De Matti Playground Jr. Girls Florence Bell De Matti Playground Sr. Boys Rudy Ficciotto Kalteniaeier Playground Sr. Girls Sarah Ifsns Kaltencieier Playground Mr,.** Duncan Campbell and Slmer A. Handling, two of the outstanding Metropolitan Paddle Tennis players will also appear in an exhibition game. * #* * OF PARKS ^ £ $ 2 . -«-^> I ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK <>/>^"fe £ / j \a£fcJ FOR RELEASE Friday, TEL. REGIM1 4-1000 ^ - ; A J+r' £*' P ^ Tr -- *" The Department of Parks announces that the horseshoe pitching, basketball and g i r l s ' punchball contests in the New York Community Trust's Spring Tournament are approaching the Borough Finals which will take place on Saturday, May 22. During the past week 1,356 inter-playground eliminations and d i s t r i c t finals were witnessed by 34,360 spectators. This Spring Sports Tournament, spon- sored by the New York Community Trust, consists of 13 activities for boys and g i r l s between the ages of 12 and 13 years. As the closing date for the swimming events is May 22, boys and g i r l s desiring to enter these competitions are urged to obtain an entry blank at their neighborhood park ox playground. The winners of these events in the Borough Finals in the boys division will receive a handsome set of military brushes and the g i r l s will be awarded leather handbags. All individual winners will be eligible to compete for a Twenty-Five Dol- lar War Bond, and team winners for valuable leather luggage in the City-wide Finals. May 22 - Manhattan: Heckscher Plgd., 62 S t . & West Drive, Central Park-Sr. 2:00 P.M. May 22 - Brooklyn: Parade Grounds, Coney Island & Caton Avenue Sr. 2:30 P.M. May 22 - Queens: Victory Field, Myrtle Ave. & Woodhaven Boulevard S r . 2:00 P.M. May 22 - Bronx: Macombs Dam Park, 2 . 151 S t . 6z Ruppert Place Sr. 3:00 P.M. May 22 - Richmond: Mahoney P l g d . , Beochvrood & Crescent Ave.,New Brighton-Sir. 4 P.M. Basketball May 22 - Manhattan: Roosevelt Plgd., Grand & Chrystie S t r e e t s J r . Boys 2:00 P.M. n May 22 - « tt « « n g r . Boys 4:00 P.M. w May 22 - ' n « n « w g r # Gj. r i s 3{00 P.M. May 22 - Brooklyn: Mclaughlin Park, Jay & T i l l a r y Streets J r . Boys 2:00 P.M. May 22 - " · » « « tt n s r . Boys 3:00 P.M. w M May 22 - " « t» « s r . Girls 11:00 A.M. May 22 - Queens: Von Dohlen P l g d . , 138 Street & Archer Ave. J r . Boys 2:00 P.M. w tt May 22 - " n . tt « .··· « « S r . Boys 4:00 P.M. May 22 - . " Kissena Park, Parsons Blvd, near 164 S t . Sr. Girls 2:00 P.M. May 22 - Bronx: Mullaly Playground, Jerome Ave. & 165 S t . J r . Boys 2:00 P.M. M May 22 - " " " " " w Sr * B °y s - J 0 ° ^* M> M ¥ia.-r 2 2 - MM n tt « it S r . G i r l s 2:00 P.M. I5ay 2 1 - Richmond: McDonald P l g d . , F o r e s t Ave. & Broadway, J r . Boys 4 : 0 0 P.M. w May 21 - " West New B r i g h t o n '· « . · S r . Boys 6 : 0 0 P.M. w May 21 - « « « « « « « « « " · Sr. Girls 5:00 P.M. Punchball_^ May *22 - Manhattan: Hsckscher Plgd., 62 St. & West Drive,Central Park-Sr. 3:00 P.M. May 22 - Queens: Jewell Ave. Plgd., Jewell Ave. & Utopia Sr. 2:00 P.M. Parkway, Flushing May 24 - Richmond: McDonald Plgd,, Forest Ave. & Broadway, Sr, 4:30 P.M. West New Brighton * * ** DEPARTMENT OF PARKS Arsenal, Central Park For Release Friday, Fsy_ TEL. REgent 4-1000 The Department of Parks announces the birth of a baby Aoudad in the Central Park Zoo, The baby was born May 14. The mother, i!Tuts," is five jrears old, and the father, ''Happy/1 is.four years old. Both parents were obtained from tho J/esker Zoo, Svansville, Indiana. Aoudads are native vri.Id sheep of Forth Africa and are commonly known as Berberry Sheep. The baby will be called "Yank'i Photographs may be taken at any time. * * * * DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENA1, C2NTRAL PARK . FOR RELEASE Tuesday > ___ TIL* REGENT 4-1OOO tJU, * May 18, 1943 Tlae Department of Parks announces tliat t h e Borough F i n a l s of Boxing i n t h e New York Community T r u s t ' s Spring Tournament w i l l ' t a k e place on May 18 and 19. There w i l l be t e n b o u t s , f o r boys 14 t o 18 y e a r s , ranging from the 85 t o t h e 160 pound c l a s s . These boys have passed qualifying p h y s i c a l t e s t s and. a r e t h e winners of p r e l i m i n a r i e s , conducted during t h e past two weeks. The winners of these c o n t e s t s w i l l receive valuable p r i z e s and w i l l b e e l i g i b l e to compete in t h e City F i n a l s , with an opportunity to win a Twenty-Five Dollar War Bond. The l o s e r i n each event w i l l receive a suitable consolation prize, 3CEEDUL3 OF BOROUGI V FINALS May 18 MAHHATTilN: Gyranasium, 407 West 28 S t r e e t 8:00 P.M. Ilay 19 BROOKLYN: HcOarren Play Center, Driggs Ave. & 7:00 P.M. Lorimer S t r e e t May 19 BRONX: Crotona Play Center, 173 S t r e e t & 8:00 P.M. Fulton Avenue Jaclcson Heights Playground, 84 S t r e e t 7:00 P.M. Between E5 & 30 Avenues May 19 RICHMOND: Faber Park, Richmond Terrace a t 7:00 P.M. Faber S t r e e t * · * * * (£> MH^ 0? PARES " I0R ARSMAL, CENTRAL PARE tiSr^CJ KS^^33 Saturday, TEL. R2GHST 4-1000 VcP - Sn^K"* W * ^ * ~May 15, 1943 The Department of Parks announces the continuation of t i e New York Community Trust's Sports Toumaraent, vuth borough finals scheduled to take place in shuffleboard and handball at the various playgrounds in the five boroughs on Saturday, Hay 15, Throughout the past week, 57,000 spectators have witnessed 2,176 i n t e r - playground eliminations and d i s t r i c t f i n a l s . This Sports Tournament sponsored by the New York Community Trust consists of 13 of the most popular a c t i v i t i e s for boys and g i r l s between the ages of 12 and 18. Any boy or g i r l may obtain an entry blank at t h e i r neighborhood park or playground for the swimning events which are s t i l l open. Individual city-wide winners will receive a Twenty-Five Dollar War Bond. Each member of winning teams will be awarded luggage. Other valuable prizes will be given to Borough and District winners. Schedule of Borough Finals "May 15 T Manhattan: North Meadow, 100 S t . & West Drive, J r s . - 11 A.M. C e n t r a l Park S r s . - 2 P.M. May 15 - Brooklyn: Shore Road & 97 S t r e e t Playground Jrs. - 2 P.M. Srs. - 2 P.M. May 15 - Queens: Maurice Playground, Borden £o Maurice Avenuss, Jrs. - 2 P.M. Maspeth Srs. - 3 P.M. May 15 - Bronx: Me Combs Dam Park, 3ast 161 St. & Ruppert Place J r s . - 11 A.M. Srs. - 2 P.M. May 15 - Richmond: Mahoney Playground, Beechwood & Crescent Jrs. - 4 P.M. Avenues, New Brighton Srs. - 4 P.M. "May 15 - Manhattan: North Meadow, 100 Street & West Drive, Jrs. - 2 P.M. Central Park Srs. - 2 P.M. May 15 - Brooklyn* City Park, Flushing & Navy Streets Jrs. - 2 P.M. Srs. - 2 P.M. May 15 - Queens} Victory Field, Myrtle Avenue, Woodharen Jrs. - 2 P.M. Boulevard Srs. - 2 I.M. May 15 - Bronx: McCombs Dam Park, Jerome, Sedgwick & Exterior St. Jrs. - 11 A.M. Srs. - 2 P.M. ROLLER HOCKEY May"l5 - Queens: Windmuller Playground, 52 S t . & Woodside A v e . , Srs. - 2 P.M. Woodside, L. I . May 15 - Brooklyn: Red Hook, Henry and Lorraine S t r e e t s Srs. - 2 P.M. PADDLE! TjMNIS May "l5 - Queens} Kissena Park, Kissena Boulevard & 164 Street, Jrs. -4:30 PM Flushing Srs. -4»30 PM * * * * OF PARES ARSEHAL, CEKTBAL PARK FOR RSLHASS Saturday, TIL. HEKSKT 4-1000 fcr*- May ^ The C h i l d r e n ' s Orchestra of t h e Park Department -.Till p r e s e n t a concert a t Forest Park Music Grove, near Myrtle Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard, Glendale, Queens, May 16, a t 2:30 P.M. T h i s j u v e n i l e o r c h e s t r a i s composed of t h i r t y hoys and g i r l s from 10 t o 17 y e a r s of age who have been s e l e c t e d from musical units established in the various playgrounds under the supervision of park personnel. The program for next Sunday's concert will consist of various selections including patriotic songs, martial airs and classical numbers as well as chorus vocals. Some of the selections are ^fagner's "Lohengrin", Ballet Music from "La G-ioeonda" by Ponchielli, "El Choclo", Tango, "The Champion March" and "The English Country Dance". * * · * * \ ' DEPARTilSNT OF PARKS ARSEKAL, CMTRAL PARK -"· FOR RILSA31 TEL. REGENT 4-1000 r\ ,, 194= The Department of Parks announces the opening of the Pitch and Putt Golf Course at Jacob Riis Park for this season on Saturday, li 0 With the exceptiona 11:/ fins weather of the past £|pr-weelqr the course is in excellent conditiox^and go If orb ubiiij.^ Ihlo facilllLy will A charge of 500 a round i s made t o play on t h i s course. A golf b a l l deposit of 50£ w i l l also be required. * * * * # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSESAL, CEJTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE Thursday. TSL. REGENT 4 - 1 0 0 0 May 13, 1943 r TV The Department of Parks announces that the' city-wide finals of Ping Pong, the first of thirteen scheduled events in the Kew York Community Trust's Spring Sports Tournament, will take place on Saturday, May 15, at 2:00 P.M. at Mullaly Playground, Jerome Avenue and 162 Street, Bronx. ; There will be four divisions, one for hoys and girls betv/een 12 and 16_. years, and another for those 16 to 18 years. These contestants are the Borough finalists who have survived intreeplay- ground, district, and borough eliminations that have been talcing place since May 1. The winner in each division will be awarded a Twenty-Five Dollar War Bond. The runner-up in the boys divisions will receive a leather brief case and in the girls divisions a handsome silk umbrella. Following are the contestants who will represent the various boroughs: Manhattan: Jr. Boys Morris Ovadia Roosevelt Playground Jr, Girls Bernice Charney J. Hood Wright Playground Sr. Boys Louis Blumenthal J. Eood Wright Playground Sr. Girls Sylvia Stern Roosevelt Playground Brooklyn: Jr» Boys Walter Gilginsky Betsy Head Playground Jr. Girls Gene Roth Shiplacoff Playground Sr. Boys Allen Friedman Ft. Hamilton Parkway Sr. Girls Rose Ealperin Shiplacoff Playground Queens: Jr. Boys Charles Rivkin Thompson Kill Playground Jr. Girls Mildred Flad Braddock Playground Sr. Boys Alfred Fundora Flushing Memorial Playground Sr. Girls Peggy McLean O'Connell Playground Brons: Jr. Boys Tony Dios Lyons Square Playground it :t n Jr. Girls Anna Cassara tf Sr. Boys Harry Goldstein Sr. Girls Beatrice Fox Richmond: Jr. Boys Frank Westcott McDonald Playground Jr. Girls Florence Bell DeMatti Playground Sr. Boys Donald Hicks McDonald Playground Sr. Girls Betty Iae Lincoln Avenue Playground The following persons have consented to act as judges of the tournament and w i l l also play exhibition games: Davida Kawthorne, one of the ranking players of 1942; Edna Scheinhart, Women's Metropolitan Champion of 1942 and Women's Connecticut State Champion of 1942; Charles Schmidt, number 3 ranking national -V- V player of 1940-41; Sol Schiff, National Table Tennis Champion froia 1934 to 1938 and Cal Skinner of Yonkers. * * * t* #· DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CMTRAL PARK i FOR RELEASE Monday. T e l . REgent 4-1000 ' May 1 0 , 1943 Photographic #22891 City Editors Index # 23 Delivered to Fishing Editors 5/8/43 1 This year additional fishing areas mostly in Manhattan and Queens, have teen set aside by the Department of Parks for salt water anglers and surf casters of New York City who, because of the tire and auto rationing and the restrictions on off-shore fishing boats, must necessarily find their recrea*i6n in nearby boundary waters. The areas and their season and hours of operation, are located as follows: Jacob Siis Park, North Shore - daylight hours, all year Cross Bay Boulevard Bridge - daylight hours, all year *Jacob Riis Park Beach, Bay 13 - daylight hours, all year *Rockaway Beach, Beach 17 to Beach 73 Streets - daylight hours, all year *Rockaway Beach, Beach 126 to Beach 149 Streets - daylight hours, all year Francis Lewis Park, East River and 147 Street - daylight hours, all year Little Neck Bay, along shore of Belt Parkway - daylight hours, all year Flushing Bay, along shore of Grand Central Parkway - daylight hours, all year RICHMOND ^Wolfe's Pond Beach - October to May, daylight hours *South Beach - October to May, daylight hours MANHATTAN Southwest corner of Randall's Island - daylight hours, all year 107 Street Pier, Harlem River - daylight hours, all year Hudson River at 83 Street - daylight hours, all year Hudson River at 92 Street - daylight hours, all year Hudson River at 106 Street - daylight hours, all year Hudson River, foot of 177 Street - daylight hours, all year Hudson River, 100 feet North of Dyckman Street - daylight hours, all year Hudson River, North of Dyckman Street Ball Fields - daylight hours, all year BRONX Twin Island, Pelham Bay Park - daylight hours, all year Talapoosa Point, Pelham Bay Park - daylight hours, all year North of old Hunter Island Bridge, Pelham Bay Park - daylight hours, all year Sea wall at parking field adjacent to Huntington Mansion, Pelham Bay Park - daylight hours, all year Orchard Beach side of lagoon, Pelham Bay Park - October to May, daylight hours Ferry Point Park - daylight hours, all year BROOJIXN 'ISanarsie P i e r - d a y l i g h t h o u r s , a l l y e a r Shore Parkway, waterfront promenade between F t . Hamilton and Bay 8 S t r e e t - daylight h o u r s , a l l year Steeplechase Pier(abutment) - d a y l i g h t h o u r s , a l l y e a r Steeplechase P i e r ( b o t h s i d e s of P i e r , north of b u i l d i n g ) - October t o May, daylight h o u r s , *Coney I s l a n d Beach - October t o May, d a y l i g h t hours Neptune Avenue & West 23 S t . ( a r e a on w a t e r f r o n t promenade) - d a y l i g h t h o u r s , a l l year Plum Beach, foot of G e r r i t s « n Avenue - d a y l i g h t h o u r s , a l l year ·&JRF CASTIKG(At t h e s e l o c a t i o n s where t h e r e i s b a t h i n g , t h e hours f o r f i s h i n g are r e g u l a t e d so as not t o i n t e r f e r e w i t h beach u s a g e . ) *** * * -> DEPARBEKT OF PARKS ·ARSENAL, CBtfTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE Saturday* TEL. RB5&OT 4-1000 May 8 , 1943 P The Department of Parks announces that the historic Olaremont Inn, built in 1806 and recognized as one of New York's landmarks, on River- side Drive north of Grant's Tomb, will reopen at 5 P»M., Saturday, May 8, Claremont Inn will be open Saturday and weekday evenings from 5 o'clock on and Sundays from 12 noon. Dinners are fron $2.00 up. There will be dancing inside in the cock- tail lounge and outside on the terrace under the stars. Music will again be furnished by Joe Ricardel and his orchestra. * * * . ' " - '"" i / -i 3f * For F 155 I <·"* ./ ·» DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK For Rel'eas?xlc lay 5 TEL. REGENT . A May 7, 1943 The^ Department of Parks announces t h a t the Borough f i n a l s of t h e New York Community T r u s t ' s Spring Tournament in paddle t e n n i s , ping pong and r o l l e r hockey a r e talcing place i n the v a r i o u s playgrounds in t h e f i v e boroughs. Throughout the past weeks e l i m i n a t i o n s in playground and d i s t r i c t finals were conducted with 3,928 games witnessed by a t o t a l s p e c t a t o r audience of 34,000 people. This contest sponsored by the New York Community Trust i s happily endorsed by 37,750 boys and g i r l s between the ages of 12 and 18, who.have already signed up to p a r t i c i p a t e . Two very popular e v e n t s , swimming and t r a c k a r e s t i l l open t o boys and g i r l s , who d e s i r e to e n t e r t h e s e contests. Entry blanks can be obtained at any neighborhood park or playground. A grand p r i z e of a Twenty-Five Dollar War Bond w i l l be given t h e i n d i v i d u a l city-wide winners in each s p o r t . There v a i l be valuable p r i z e s to the members of winning teams. Borough and d i s t r i c t p r i z e s w i l l a l s o be awarded. SCHEDULE OF BOROUGSI FINALS May 7 - Richmond: Lyons Pool, Victor?/ Boulevard & Murray J r s . - 4:00 P.M. Hulbert Avenue, Tompkinsville S r s . - 4:00 P.M. J r s . -11:00 A.M. May 8 - Manhattan: West 28 S t . Gymnasium, 407 West 28 S t r e e t S r s . - 2:00 P.M. J r s . - 2:00 P.M. ilo.f 8 - Brooklyn: P i c n i c House, Prospect Park S r s . - 3:00 P.M. J r s . - 2:00 P.M. May 8 - Bronx: Mullaly Playground, 162 S t r e e t .& Jerome Ave. S r s . - 3:00 P.M. May 8 - QueensJ Flushing Memorial Playground, Bayside & J r s . - 4:00 P.M. 25 Avenues and 149 Street S r s . - 5:30 P.M. PADDLE TENNIS May 8 - Manhattan: Sast River Park at 8 Street J r s . -11:00 A.M. S r s . - 2:00 F.M* May 8 - Brooklyn: City Park, Flushing & Navy Street J r s . - 2:00 P.M. S r s . - 2:00 P.M. May 8 - Bronx: Mullaly Playground, 162 Street & Jerome Avenue J r s . - 2500 P.M. S r s . * 3:00 P.M. May 8 - Richmond: Lincoln Avenue Playground, Lincoln & J r s . - 4:00 P.M, Boundary Avenues, Midland Beach S r s . - 4$00 P.M. ROLLER.HOCKEY 2:00 P.M. " May 9 - 'Manhattan: Carl Schurz Park, 84 Street & East River Park 3:00 P.M. May 9 -.Bronx: Mullaly Flayground, 162 Street & Jerome Avenue 2:00 P.M. May 9 - Richmond: McDonald Playground, Forest Avenue & Broadway · * * · rm 26A-SM-13HX* 155 Ufa DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK For Re/ease TEL. REGENT 4-1000 May 3, 1943 The Department of Parks announces that district finals of the New York Community Trust's Spring Tournament in ping pong, roller hockey and paddle tennis are taking place in various playgrounds throughout the City, beginning Saturday, May 1. Eliminations have already started with 1468 games in basketball, Softball, handball, roller hockey, ping pong and paddle tennis contested in various playgrounds before a t o t a l spectator audience of 30,660 people. The contest will run through May and June and boys and g i r l s between the ages of 12 and 18 are s t i l l eligible to enter some of these events. Competitors may enter as many events as they desire. There is no entry fee* Entry blanks are s t i l l being accepted for the track meets, swimming, baseball, horseshoe pitching, punchball(girls). These blanks are available at a l l neigh- borhood parks and playgrounds. These should be filled out and forwarded to one of the borough, offices listed below. Thirty-three thousand boys and £i have already signed up to participate in this tournament. A grand prize of a Twenty-five Dollar War Bond will be given to the individual city-wide winners in each sport. There will also be valuable prizes to the members of winning teams. These prizes amounting to $10,000. were made possible through the generosity of the New York Community Trust. MANHATTAN Mr. P. J . Cruise Arsenal Building 64 Street & Fifth Avenue BROOKLYN M r . R. C. J s n k i n s Litchfield Hansion Prospect Park Prospect Park West & Fifth Street QUEENS Mr. J . J . Mallen The O v e r l o o k U n i o n T u r n p i k e & P a r k Lane F o r e s t P a r k , Kew G a r d e n s BRONX M r . G. L . Q u i g l e y Bronx P a r k E a s t & B i r c h a l l Avenue RICHMOND Mr. A. M. A n d e r s o n Clove Lakes Park 1150 Clove Road West New Brighton Staten Island SCHEDULE OF DISTRICT FINALS ATTACHED (23). SCHEDULE OF DISTRipT__FMALS - MEEK OF MAY1 PING PONG - Boys and G i r l s - 12 to 18 years District Location of Game Date Manhattan^ Lower East Side Playgrounds Roosevelt Playground, Chrystie May 1 and Forsyth Streets Jr. - 11 A.M. Sr. - 2 P.M. Yorkville Playgrounds Thomas Jefferson Playground, Same E. 114 St. and Plsasant Ave. Chelsea Playgrounds West 28 Street Gym, Same West 28 Street and 9 Avenue Harlem. Playgrounds West 134 Street Gym, May 3 - 4 F.M. West 134 Street & 5 Avenue Washington Heights Pie J. Eood Wright Playground, May 1 West 173 Street and Ft. J r . - 11 A.M. Washington Avenue Sr. - 2 P . M. Q,ueens? The Rockaways and Richmond Jackson Pond Playground, 108 May 5- 4 P.M. Hill Playgrounds Street and Myrtle Avenue Astoria, Ridgewood and Corona 102 Street Playground SaiiE Maspeth Playgrounds Jackson Heights, Flushing Flushing Memorial Playground, Same & Bayside Playgrounds Bayside Avenue and 150 Street Jamaica and St. Albans O'Connell Playground, 113 Ave. Same Playgrounds and 196 Street Bronx; Mott Haven Playgrounds St. Mary's West Playground May 1 E. 146 St. & St.Ann's Avenue Jr. - 11 A.M. · B r . - 2 P.M. Morrisania Playgrounds Mullaly Playground, E. 165 St. Same and Jerome Avenue Tremont Playgrounds Crotona Play Center, E. 173 St. Same and Fulton Avenue Fordham Playgrounds Williamsbridge Playground, Same E. 208 St. & Bainbridge Ave. FsHiain-WestChester Playgrounds Zimmerman Playground, Olinville Same Avenue and Britton Street Richmond: Port Richmond-West New McDonald Playground, Forest May 4- 4 P.M. Brighton Playgrounds Ave., Broadway, W. Brighton Tompkinsville-Stapleton- Lyons Pool, Victory Boulevard & May 4- 4 P.M. Rosebank Playgrounds Murray Hulbert Ave., Tompkinsville Tottenville-Hew Dorp DeMatti Playground, Tompkins May 4- 4 P»H» Playgrounds Avenue, Rosebank PADDLE IBNNIS - Boys and Girls - 12 to 18 years Brooliljn lavy Yard, Red Hook Mclaughlin Playground, Jay & May 1- 2 P.M. Playgrounds Tillary Streets Williamsburg, Greenpoint Taaffe Place Playground, Taaffe Same Playgrounds Place and Myrtle Avenue Bushwick Playgrounds 3ushwick Playground, Knickerbocker Same Avenue and Putnam Avenue Mr. - * - yaf.-P- Contisaed "f f location of Ms. ^^-:Oon|y Island, Gravesend Playground, 56 Sti May 1- 2 P.M. Marine ^ ^ ^ ' and 18 Avenue Brownsville Playgrounds Bit on & New lots Playground May 1- 2 P.M. Bay Ridge Playgrounds Bay 8th Street & Cropsey Same Avenue Playground Richmond Port Richmond, West & New /McDonald, Forest Avenue, May 4- 4 P.M. Brighton Playgrounds Broadway, W. Brighton Tompkinsville, Stapleton, Mahoney Playground, Beachwood May 4- 4 P.M« Rosebank Playgrounds & Crescent Ave., New Brighton Tottenville, New Dorp Play- Lincoln Avenue and Midland May 4- 4 P«M» grounds Beach Playground ROJOLSR EOCKEr - Boys · 14 to 18 years Manhattan: - lower Sast Side Playgrounds Corlears Eook Playground, May 1- 3 P.M. Corlears Hook & Jackson Street Yorkville Playgrounds Carl Schurz Playground, E. 84 May 2- 2 P.M. Street 3c East 3fcd Avenue Chelsea Playgrounds Chelsea, 10 Avenue, West 27 May 2- 3 P.M. and West 28 Streets Washington Heights 105 Street and Riverside Drive May 1- 1 P.M. Playgrounds Playground Brooklyn; Williamsbiirg, Greenpoint McCarren Play Center, Driggs May 1- 2 P.M. Playgrounds vs. Brownsville, and Lorimer Street East New York Playgrounds Bensonhurst-Coney Island, , Same May 1- 3 P.M. Flatbush Playgrounds vs Bushwick Playgrounds, o 00' Jackson Heights-Flushing Maurice Playground, Borden May 1- 11 A,M. Playgrounds v s , Jamaica & Maurice Avenues, 54 Avenue Playgrounds Winner of Above va, Astoria Windmuller Playground, 52 St., 3- 4 P.M. Playgrounds Woodside Ave*, 39 Road --Bronx: a Playgrounds va Mullaly Play Center, East 165 May 2- 2 P.M. Tr,eraont Playgrounds ·Street & Jerome Avenue Mott Haven Playgrounds vs Same May 2- 4 P.M. Fordham Playground^ Richmond; Port Richmond, West and New McDonald Playground, For»st May 1- 2 Brighton Playgrounds Ave., Broadway, West Brighton Tompkinsville, St«pleton, Mahoney Playground, Beechwodd May 1- 2 P.M. Ro.sebank Playgrounds & Crescent Avenues, New Brighton · · · * t >ARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE Monday, TIL. REGENT 4-1000 - May 3, 1943 S0UNDVI2W PARK, THE BRONX, AND GREAT KILLS PARK, RICHMOND The Department of Parks announces that the War Production Board has granted a priority for the materials required ;for the construction of a timber bulkhead at Great Kills Park (Marine Park) Borough of Richmond, New York. This operation was originally designed for the construction of a steel sheet bulkhead but the design was changed and the timber bulkhead substituted to eliminate steel and other critical materials. The construction of the bulkhead is another step forward in the program for the construction of a major shorefront recreational area in the City of New York. Park reclamation activities at Great Kills were started in 1934 by constructing with relief funds a section of bulkhead, filling in Crookes Point and attaching it to the mainland. In 1936 the City acquired adjacent meadowland to round out the park area so that today title to all land and land under water required for the program is vested in the City. Later with Federal and City funds a portion of the area was filled with material dredged from the channel into the harbour. The Park Department is now preparing plans for the post-war construction of the park which will contain a bathing beach, bathhouse, parking fields, boat basin, and recreational areas. The park today is primarily meadowland and will require several million cubic yards of fill to make it usable. This will be made available by the transfer of the "controlled land fill" operation of the Department of Sanitation.from Soundview Park, the Bronx, at the end of this year. The waste material will be brought to the site in scows, unloaded and covered with clean earth. Sanitation fill will be placed only in the interior of -a- * the park. The beach and frontage on Great Kills harbour will be filled with clean sand to avoid any possible pollution of the bathing beach and waters in the bay. The operation at Soundview has been carried out over the past two years without nuisance and has added a valuable park to the recreational system. Soundview Park, the Bronx, originally consisted of 93 acres of upland, much of which was typically barren salt marsh with natural creeks and artificial drainage. In 1940, 56 additional acres were acquired by condemnation for park purposes, 48 of which was land under water. The Bronx River and East River frontages consisted of an irregular and muddy shore line. Bulkheads were constructed and during the past two years, the Department of Sanitation has been depositing refuse which is graded, compacted and covered with clean earth fill. It is estimated that these operations will be completed in the late fall of this year and this disposal of this waste material which is vital to the health of the City must be transferred to another area, namely Great Kills, Richmond. At Great Kills Park, the bulkhead is necessary to confine the fill and will be a part of the unloading and mooring facilities. Construction will take about six months and it will take approximately three months to set up the Sanitation unloading equipment to prepare for unloading opera- tions. There is no reason that all operations cannot be progressed simultaneously and the bulkhead work will be scheduled so that filling operations can start by the time operations at Soundview are completed. * · * * f # DEPARTMENT OF PARES ARSMAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR R2L2AS3 Sunday. TEL. REGENT 4-1000 May 2, 1943 The Park Department announces that after the evening session at the City Building, Flushing Meadow Park, on Sunday, May 2, 1943, ice skating will be discontinued and only the roller skating rink will be in operation. Patronage of the ice skating rink has decreased rapidly during the past three weeks and with the recent warm weather, interest in this sport has become so low that the attendance no longer justifies its continued operation. The ice skating rink will be re-opened early in the fall. During this S9ason 225,967 parsons availed themselves of the facility. The roller skating rink at the City Building will continue to operate evening sessions from 7:30 to 11:00 P.M. with the exception of Mondays on which day the facility will be closed. There will be free morning sessions from 9?00 A.M» to 12 noon on Saturdays; afternoon sessions from 2:30 to 5:30 P.M. on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays only. Admission to afternoon sessions is 20$ per person including tax ana 40$ per person including tax for evening sessions. Checking is free. . ' * * * X ^± J> DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE Thursday, TEL. REGENT 4-1000 April 29, 1943 C ** A - ~\ The Department of Parks announces the completion of the planting of approximately four thousand early Tulips in Stuyvesant Square Park, at Second Avenue and 16th Street, which were donated by James Keur in memory of his wife Johanna who died recently. The site chosen for the planting is around the fountain on the west side of the park, adjacent to the statue of another famous Dutchman, Peter Stuyvesant. They will be in full bloom during the week of May 3rd. The three varieties are the White Hawk, a beautiful pure white type; the Peach Blossom, a double flesh pink with a peoney-like bloom; and the DeWet, famous for its association with the House of Orange. Mr- and Mrs. Keur were born in Hellegon, Holland where Mrs, Keur had the distinction of being the first lady Alderman. During a distinguished career of sixty years in the field of horticulture, Mr. Keur has grown millions of Tulips both in Holland and the United States. Reports that have come out of Holland indicate that his extensive business there has been wiped out by the Nazis who have expropriated the land for the growing of vegetables to feed the Nazi hordes. His interest in the parks of New York City extended over a period of several decades during which he has donated hundreds of thousands of Tulips whose blooms have gladened the hearts of many times that number of park patrons.. * * * .3D, " DEPARTMENT OF PARKS 17 Monday, ARSENAL., CENTRAL. PARK ~'~ TEL, RESENT 4-1000 x&L 10T j_g The Girl Scouts and the Department of Parks have agreed on an expanded program of day camps in the various, park picnic areas this summer. They are to be located as follows, and all of the camps will be open on July 1, 1943. Van G o r t l a n d t P a r k : 1. H o l l y ' s Lane, West of Jerome Avenue a t Hbodlawn S t a t i o n Pelham Bay P a r k : 1 . Pelham Bay P i c n i c A r e a , Rice Play fie Id QUEENS: Cunningham Park Horace Harding Boulevard to Grand Central Parkway, between 194th Street and Ho H i s Court Boulevard, Hollis Forest Park Off Main Drive near Woodhaven Boulevard, Glendale Willowbrook Park Yictory Boulevard and Riolniioiid'-Avenue Wolfe's Pond Park Kylan Boulevard and Cornelia Avenue (on Raritan Bay) This program will start on July 1st and end on August 13th and is open to a l l girls between the ages of 7 and 18 whether or not.they are members of the Girl Scouts. There is an entry fee of fifty cents for each of the tvro-week periods. The girls bring their own meals. Those attending will enjoy a l l the things that go with camp l i f e , except that they will not live on the grounds. They are taught camp craft, handcraft, folk dancing, singing, photography, clay modelling, weaving, and, in addition, enjoy the additional recreation f a c i l i t i e s that are provided by the department. The Depiptment of Parks is assigning personnel to aid in carrying out the program. Last year there were 1600 girls in the five boroughs who regularly enjoyed these day time trips to the park areas. There are very few who started the program on July 1st who didn't continue throughout the six-week period. * * * Form 26A-5M-T3141 155 \ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK Fo TEL. REGENT 4-1000 999K4. ,, , ' April 18, 1943 The Department of Parks announces that, to date, over twenty thousand boys and girls, between the ages of 12 and 18, have entered the New York Community Trust's Spring Sports Tournament * Eliminations in the thirteen sports will be conducted in all the park playgrounds, athletic fields and swimming pools through the months of April, Ivlay and June, lliminations in the various sports will begin on: Basketball - April 17 Softball 18 Handball 18 Roller Hockey 24 Paddle Tennis 34 Ping Pong May 1 Punchball 1 Baseball 1 Shuffleboard 2 Horseshoe Pitching 2 The generous contribution of $10,000* by the New York Community Trust will provide prizes for district, borough and City-wide winners. Top prizes will be $25.00 war bonds for the individual City-wide winners. Other winners will receive luggage, athletic equipment, and other valuable and useful prizes. Entry blanks are available at all'neighborhood parks and playgrounds, or they may be secured by writing to the various borough headquarters of the Park Department, listed below: Manhattan: Mr. P. J. Cruise Arsenal Building 64 Street & Fifth Avenue Brooklyn; Mr. R. C. Jenkins ·Litchfield Mansion Prospect Park West & Fifth Street QUEENS: Mr. J. J. Mallen The Overlook Union Turnpike & Park Lane Forest Park, Kew Gardens Bronx: Mr. G, L. Quigley Bronx Park ilast & Birchall Avenue Richmond: Mr. A, M. Anderson Clove Lakes Park 1150 Clove Road West New Brighton Staten Island, N. Y. * * * * fsxs) · · DEPARTMENT OF PARKS « «*t) *A ARSMAL, CMTRAL PARK Ut^ · ' > ^ Iu \ ^ 3a FOR RELEASE Saturday, TEL. REGENT 4-1000 ^ A p r i l 17, 1943 EASTER FLOWER SHOW - PROSPECT PARK The Park Department announces the opening of the Annual Easter Flower Show at the Greenhouse in Prospect Park, Prospect Park West and 7th Street, Brooklyn, on Palm. Sunday, April 18, at 10 A.M. The show will be open to the public each day thereafter for three weeks from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. The exhibit this year is one of the finest of these annual shovre. More than 300 varieties of flowers are represented by 5,000 specimens. The main feature of the show is a huge cross 27 feet by 15 feet with the head of the cross raised 20 feet off the floor, made up of pure white Bermuda lilies, edged with dark blue cinerarias, and banked with genistas. Shower of gold plant and pink and white azaleas are at the base of the cross. Leading to the steps of the cross is a path of grass with a sunken garden of azaleas in over 50 varieties. As a background for the central motive, the walls of the Greenhouse are banked with a colorful display of flowers in great varieties, among which are cinerarias, calceolarias, sweet peas and snapdragons. * * * · PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS MAY BE TAKEN AT ANT TIME. tSPARTMENT OF PARKS w M FOR __ . ARSENAL, CMTRAL PARK t A p r i l 1 1 , 1943 TEL. KEGMT 4-1000 · The ten Municipal Golf Courses operated by the.Department of Parks will be opened for play for the season on Saturday, April 17. All of the courses are readily accessible by transit facilities. The food and refresh- ment bars in the clubhouses will also open for the season at that time. Sandwiches and refreshments are available at these bars to accomodate golfers. With the exception of the Forest Park Golf Course, the same pro- fessionals will be on hand as last year. At the Forest Park Course, Mr. Hughie Clasby will take over this season. Golf Pros: will arrange for lessons and make repairs to golf equipment. Golf permits for the season cost §5.00. An additional charge of 10# will be made with the season golf permit on weekdays and an additional charge of 50# on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Daily golf fees remain the same; 75gf on weekdays and $1.00 on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. The department also announces the opening of the clay tennis courts on April 17, weather permitting. Tennis permits cost $3.00. Complete listing of the golf and tennis facilities can be found in the telephone directory. Permits can be secured at any of the five borough offices listed below, either by personal application or by mail, MANHATTAN - Arsenal Building - Telephone: RSgent 4-1000 64 Street and Fifth Avenue BROOKLYN - Litchfield Mansion - Telephone: SOuth 8-2300 Prospect Park West and 5th Street QjDKENS- The Overlook - Telephone: CLeveland 3-4600 Union Turnpike & Park Lane Forest Park, Kew Gardens, L. I, BRONX - . Bronx Park East & Birchall Ave.-Telephone: WEstchester 7-5200 Bronx Park RICHMOND - Clove Lakes Park - Telephone: Gibraltar 2-&640 1150 Clove Road West New Brighton, Staten Island * * * * - * * - #* DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AHSSttL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE _Wednesda2j__ TIL. R1GMT 4-1000 A'oril 7 , 1943 lUM 01*y a u t Speoiel ·*»» ftO* 4/*/*S 5 K * eoluaa wrtt.r*, sport* «d, v wholaatie writers, golf writer* The Department of Parks announces that the City-wide finals of the Boxing Championships will take place at Lost Battalion Hall, 93-29 Queens Boulevards Queens, on Thursday, April 8, at 8:30 P.M. Admission "is free. Valuable prizes, consisting of traveling bags for the winners and fountain pens for the losers, have been donated by Bernard. G-imbel for this occasion. All the boxers, who will take part in these bouts on Thursday are the borough winners of a series of eliminations conducted throughout the City at the various Park Department boxing centers. These boys have been instructed at these centers by trained park personnel as part of a recreational and physical fitness program. There will be eighteen bouts, with classifications ranging from the 85 pounders to the heavyweight division. Competitors have been further classified into two age groups: Midget (14 to 16 years) and Junior (16 to 18 years). * * * * (S) f 4L DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE MONDAY TEL. REGENT 4 - 1 0 0 0 . March 29, 1943 The Department of Parks and The New York Community Trust announce a -widespread athletic competition for the boys and g i r l s of the City, to take place during the months of April, May and June. The sports in this competition, which will be conducted by convenient d i s t r i c t s , include basket b a l l , softball, baseball, paddle tennis, ping pong, track meets, shuffle board, handball, boxing, swimming, roller hockey, horseshoe pitching, and pur.ch ball (for girls). Events have been scheduled for ages from 12 to 18 years. No entry fee is required. Competitions will take place in a l l recreation areas and Playgrounds of the City, and prizes will be awarded at the d i s t r i c t , borough and City f i n a l s . These competitions will have not only competitive interest, but also spectator i n t e r e s t , especially the inter- d i s t r i c t , inter-borough and City-wide finals. These contests, therefore, will be staged at locations having suitable seating arrangements for spectators, such as indoor and outdoor swimming pools, ampitheatres and stadia. The grand prize to the individual winner of the City-wide finals in each sport is to be a Twenty-Five Dollar INar Bond. There will also be valuable individual prizes to team winners. The closing dates of entries, according to sports, will be; Basket Ball April 17 Handball 17 Softball 17 Padaie Tennis 24 Ping Pong 24 Roller Hockey 24 Boxing 24 Shuffle Board 24 Punch Ball May 1 Baseball 1 Horseshoe Pitching 1 Swimming 22 Track Meets 8 -2- Although the Park Department has conducted annual competitions in the past, it was thought this year, with so much interest concentrated on things military, it -was necessary to give more attention to recreation on a large scale for young civilians because of war conditions. The New York Community Trust has generously provided funds for the purchase of 3886 prizes. Boys and girls desiring to enter these tournaments should get in touch with the Playground Director of their neighborhood playground, or -write to the Park Director of the borough in -which they reside: Manhattan - Mr. P. J. Cruise Arsenal Building 64th Street k Fifth Avenue New York City Brooklyn - Mr. R, C« Jenkins Litohfield Mansion Prospect Park lest & Fifth Street Brooklyn, New York Queens - Mr. J . J'; Mallen The Overlook Union Turnpike & Park Lane Forest Park, Kew Gardens New York City Bronx - Mr. G. L. Quijley Bronx Park East k Birchall Avenue Bronx, New York Richmond - Mr. A. M. Anderson Clove Lakes Park 1150 Clove Road West New Brighton, Staten Island New York Citv ^ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE SATURDAY TEL. RESENT 4-1000 MRCH 2 7 , 1943 The Department of Parks announces t h a t 154 b a s e b a l l d i a - monds and 279 s o f t b a l l f i e l d s t h r o u g h o u t t h e f i v e boroughs w i l l be o f f i c i a l l y ooened f o r p l a y on S a t u r d a y , A p r i l 1 7 . While t h e r e i s no charge f o r t h e use of t h e s e r e c r e a t i o n a r e a s , o e r m i t s a r e r e q u i r e d and t h e y may be obtained by applying t o t h e Borough D i r e c t o r of t h e borough i n which t h e f i e l d i s l o c a t e d . Each a p p l i c a n t must e n c l o s e a stamped s e l f - a d d r e s s e d envelope w i t h ·his request. The names and addresses of the various Borough Directors follow: Mr. P. J . Cruise, Borough Director Arsenal Building 64 Street & Fifth Avenue New York City Mr, R. C. Jenkins, Borough Director Litchfield Mansion Prospect Park West & Fifth Street Brooklyn, New York Mr. J, J. Mallen, Borough Director The Overlook Union Turnnike & Park Lane Forest Park, Kew Gardens, Long Island Mr. G. L. Quigley, Borough Director Bronx Park East & Birchall Avenue Bronx, New York Mr. A. M. Anderson, Borough Director Clove Lakes Park 1150 Clove Road "West New Brighton, Staten Island *** *** *** DEPARTMENT OF PARKS NT^^ ( J ^ W ? Mar;24,1943 ARSENAL, ARSENAL CENTRAL PARK A rOt ISjSUaSe Mr* Wetlts^F^HpvSfcg, President, Lord . & Taylor, 424 Fifth Avenue, Hew York Qi$Y- iJeai? Mr. Having: The press attributes to you the statement! that a big start would be made in balancing the City budget and avoiding addi- tional taxation if the Mayor were to move out of the old G-racie Mansion in Carl Schurz Park. The bright minds who do your research should know that the G-racie Mansion was repaired by relief forces because it was one of the very fine old landmarks of the * City, that the use of the build- ing for a Museum was not successful after the Museum of the City of New York moved out, that further repairs were made by relief forces and that the very beet use for the building which could be thought of by numerous public-spirited people interested in its preservation was as a permanent, simple and dignified home for successive Mayors of the City of New York* This building is maintained by park forces as an incident in the upkeep of Carl Schurz Park. The basement houses the park maintenance forces. The additional expense of upkeep as the Mayor's residenoe is so small that it could have no conceivable effect on the balancing of the budget. The City does not provide servants, food or other living expenses in the Mayor's House. These are paid for by the Mayor which, as you know, is Contrary to the practice in the case of the White House, State Executive Mansions and other houses furnished to public executives to maintain the dignity and symbol of their offices, As an intelligent executive, you ought to take pride in the Mayor's House, Just as you take pride in Fifth Avenue It is a curious and interesting fact that a good many of your associates were enthusiastic about the conversion of the G-racie Mansion into the Mayor1s House, and that the same people eagerly sup- ported the Trustees of the Museum of the City of New York in persuading a previous City administration to buy a new site for this Museum when it was located in the Grade Mansion. If, in your campaign against the restoration of the full sales tax, you must sling mud and toss about phoney figures, please keep away from the parks and historic mansions. Even mud slinging is an art. The trick is not to spatter yourself and your friends* Very truly yours, /s/ ROBERT MOSES /' k: T; T, C onrr.i s 3 i one: · p q A, y T or PARKS ARSENAL, CaJTRAL PASS 3OR RELEASE TEL. R3S28T 4-1000 Martb S3, 1943 The Dspartaoeftt of Parks a&wnmees the gift of two three year old festal* lions from the Herahey Eatatea, Hershay FennsylTania, vfiiieh hare closed t&elr aoo for the duration* The animals both of which are fine specimens in good condition «n& shipped byla^ilway ejEprees/arrived at the Central Park Zoo today* One animal w i n remain at Central Park and the other i s already on i t s way to the Prospect Park Zoo« Those anlaals will replace others whioh have died from old age* be taken issaodiately* Telephoned: ^ ·^Associated Press y^ j / D a i l y Mirror ^Brooklyn ^ a i l y Eagle V"Brooklyn Citizen P.M. , . .-. . · DEPARTMENT OF PARKS 77 n / o x ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK r«_X March 2 0 , 1 9 4 3 Mi?/43 The Department of Parks announces that the New York State Indoor Speed Skating Championships will be held on Sunday, March 21, 1943, at 5:30 P.M. at the New York City Building, Flushing Meadow Park, Queens. Fourteen speed skating events, ranging from the quarter mile to the two mile race are included in the program for Senior Men and Women, Intermediate Boys (under 18 years), Junior Boys(under 16 years), Juvenile Boys(under 14 years), Midget Boys(under 12 years) and Intermediate Girls(under 18 years). Some of the outstanding ice skaters in the men's division who will com- pete in these championships next Sunday are Roy Irickson, Brooklyn, New York, 1942 Metropolitan Indoor Speed Champion; Herman Van Putten, present holder of the North -American Indoor Speed Skating Championship as well as the Middle Atlantic Indoor Title and interstate Outdoor Championship; Ray Blum, 1943 Silver Skates Derby Championship. In the Senior Women's division, Mrs. Helene Carlesco, Jackson Heights, 1943 Silver Skates Champion and Eastern States Outdoor Champion and Miss Beatrice Amann, Meriden,Connecticut, Tri-state Indoor Champion and runner-up for New York State Indoor title have registered for the New York State Championship, Gold and silver medals will be awarded in each event by the Park De- partment . Spectators will be admitted to the skating championship on Sunday, March 21, at the New York City Building, by paying the usual 40?f admission fee. The roller skating rink will be open to the public from 7i30 to 11 P.M. on the same evening upon payment of the admission charge. Roller skates will be furnished without any additional cost. The cafeteria will be open during the course of the evening and a variety of food and drinks may be purchased at reasonable prices. The New York City Building can be reached by: Flushing Ridgewood trolley to Grand Central Parkway, pedestrian walk to building; Independent subway to Grand Avenue station, Queens line, Flushing Ridgewood trolley to Grand Central Parkway; 1RT, BMT lines to 111 Street station, Corona; North Shore bus from West Farms to Boston Road, Bronx, to Main Street, Flushing, LaGuardia Airport bus to park en- trance gate; Triborough Coach from Continental Avenue, Forest Hills, to Horace Harding Boulevard, pedestrian walk to building. * * * * DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL. CENTRAL PARK . Par D,]p/lfp FRIDAY T «.. R E G E N T 4 _ l 0 0 0 ^/. w _y_ rorxelease ^ ^ ^ Bids were opened today by the Department of Parks at the Arsenal in Central Park on a contract for landscaping work on the Francis Lewis Boulevard, a mixed traffic artery extending eleven miles from the Belt Parkway in the southeastern corner of Queens to the Whitestone Bridge ap- proach. The contract for topsoil, seeding and planting will provide the finishing touches to the two mile section between Hillside Avenue and Horace Harding Boulevard, one and one-half miles of which passes through Cunningham Park. The planting &t each end of the boulevard will consist of formal street trees between the curb and sidewalk. "Within the park and particularly around the three grade separations a considerable quantity of native trees and shrubs will be used to create an informal landscape consistent with the ad- jacent park development. The major trees> some of which will be six inches in diameter will consist chiefly of a variety of oaks with a scattering of honey locust, ash, tulip and sweetgum. The steeper roadway slopes will be stabilized with bank binding vines and shrubs including huckleberry sods, ivy, roses and honey- suckle. The bridges will be accented with small flowering trees such as the Hawthorne, Dogwood, Redbud and Viburnums. The native shrubs, many of which are flowering types will be used around the access roadways, open lawns and meadows. These will include the following: Sweetfern, spicebush, and witch hazel, arrowwood, azaleas and Bayberry Laurel, Silverbells and Sumac. Occasional mounds of climbing roses and honeysuckle will be allowed to pile up on the wood guard rails near side slopes and bridge ! approaches. The planting contract: is scheduled for completion this spring* The three lowest bids for the work described above were submitted by» · , 1. Lincolndale Nurseries, Inc. $110,269.15 Lincolndale, New York 2. John Gozo 132,054.75 171-08 84th Road Jamaica, New York 3. Grandview Company 132,072.65 6 Grandvieyj Avenue Mt, Vernon, Hew York %>^ : ? · * * > r> W LOCATION PARK PLANTING AH: C> ·u BOROUGH QUEENS lNCi AT FR.ANCIS LE-WIS BLV.D. S. LAUC-MLIN AVE-. C% DEPARTMENT OF PARIS W lor Release: ·_J!£iMI W W ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK March 19, 1943 REgent 4-1000 , /4X Bids were opened today by the Department of Parlcs^at the Arsenal in Central Park on a contract for landscaping work on the Brooklyn-Connecting Highway. The contract provides for spreading topsoil salvaged from the site, furnishing and spreading topsoil, furnishing and placing various types of plant food, furnishing and planting grass seed, trees, shrubs and vines along the access and service roadways at tre intersection of the Brooklyn-Connecting Highway and Grand Central Parkway Extension. The sections specifically are the South Service Roadway of Grand Central Parkway from 86th ^treet to Ditmars Boulevard and Ditiriars Boulevard from 91st Street to 93r-d Street and the east and west branches of the Connecting Highway. In addition to dressing up this arterial connector which skirts St. Michael's Cemetery the planting is essential for the preservation of the grade separation slopes. Over fifteen thousand trailing roses in seven varieties and supplemented with honeysuckle and other creepers will provide a color blanket to prevent the erosion of topsoil. White shadbush and yellow forsythia will provide an early touch of color to the spring picture. The basic tree planting will consist of Oaks, Sweetgum and Honey Locust. Flowering Hawthornes and Apples will be used for accent at the bridges and along the slopes. When this arterial improvement is opened it will shorten considerably the trip between downtown Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Municipal Airport. The three lowest bids for the work described above were submitted 1. Meadow Brook Nurseries, Inc. $114,285.45 42 Grand Avenue Englewood, New Jersey 2. John'Gozo $122,388.00 171-08 84th Road Jamaica,. New York 3. Alcan Construction Corp. $148,257.45 728 S. Columbus Avenue Mt. Vernon, New York LOCATION OF PLANTING LAGUARO.KA MICHAEL'S CEMETERY II 600* 0' 600' 1200'I80012400* 3000* BOROUGH OF QUEENS -<_^_-«j «-*«_ \ ·. I DEPAKTMMT OF PARKS ARSMAL, CENTRAL PARK - FOR RELEASE _Supj!£yjL TEL. REGENT 4 - 1 0 0 0 v "Marcl-r 14," 1943" OP The BorougL. President of Queens and the Department of Parks announce that a combination of social and square dancing will be conducted at Lost Battalion Hall, 93-29 Queens Boulevard, Queens, on the Friday nights of March 19 and 26, and on Monday evening, April 5. Ed Durlacher, a well known "caller", will desert farm chores for the evening and will twang his way through the old familiar American Sets. Ee will be ably assisted in this undertaking by his equally well known "Top Hands", who will provide the music for all the dancing. The music and prize were made available by the generous cooperation of the Long Island Daily Press and the Long Island Star Journal. The dances were arranged some time ago when the W.P.A. bands were available. The bands have since been discontinued, but the Long Island Daily Press and the Long Island Star Journal answered Commissioner Moses' call for help. A prize of a twenty-five dollar War Bond vail be awarded the winners in an Old Timers Waltz Contest. The combined ages of the contestants for this event must be a minimum of 100 years. Eliminations will take place on the nights of March 19 and March 26, with the finals conducted on the night of April 5. There will be no admission charge. All are cordially welcome. Lost Battalion Hall may be reached by the Independent Eighth Avenue Subway, "3" train Express to Roosevelt Avenue station, change to local to Woodhaven Boulevard sta- tion. Gome out at east end of station and walk two short blocks. * * * 17. Form 26A-5M-lH841«^|fe> ls5 EPARTMENT OF PARKS ipT ARSENAL, CENTRAL, PARK ^ j \"y 1 ^f J) " or Release Saturday, TEL. RESENT 4-K.oo -' > > p ^v _ March 13, 1943 The Department of Parks announces that contpaiy to rumor, New York City's public golf courses and tennis courts will be open this year as usual. These f a c i l - i t i e s will provide some outlet for the relief of strained nerves and long hours of work in war production, thereby helping maintain public morale. Season permits for golf and tennis f a c i l i t i e s will go on sale Monday, March 22. These permits can be secured at the five borough offices by mailing a check made payable to the Department of Parks or by application in person. Appli- cants for permits must furnish photographs that have been taken within two. weeks of the date of application. The photograph i s to be one-and-one-half inch by one-and- one half inch and must be attached to the application blank. The price of golf permits will be five dollars. This year, however, there will be an additional charge of ten cents on week days, in conjunction with season golf permits, and on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, the same additional charge of fifty cents will be in effect as last year. The daily fee permit for playing from Monday to Friday will be seventy-five cents and one dollar on Satur- days, Sundays and holidays. The department also announces the abolition of reservations for week-end and holiday play. This change in policy will place the operation of the golf courses entirely on a f i r s t come f i r s t served basis. The charge for a season tennis permit will be three dollars. This permit is good at any time, at any of the forty-six locations where five hundred and twenty-two courts are operated by the Department of Parks. Because of the uncertainty of spring weather, definite dates for the opening of the golf courses and clay tennis courts cannot be set at t h i s time. If weather conditions are favorable, the golf courses and clay tennis courts will open on Saturday, April 17. The Borough Offices wlaere applications for tennis and golf permits can be made, are located as follows! Manhattan Arsenal Building - Telephone: HEgent 4-1000 64 Street and Fifth Avenue Brooklyn Litchfield Mansion - Telephone: SOuth 8-2300 Prospect Park "w'est & Fifth Street Queens The Overlook - Telephone: CLeveland 3-4600 Union Turnpike & Park Lane Forest Park, Sew Gardens, L. I . Bronx Bronx Park Sast & Birchall Avenue -Telephone: HEstchester 7- Bronx Park 5200 Richmond Clove Lakes Park - telephone: GIbralter 2-7640 1150 Clove Road, West New Brighton, S. I . · * * #19933 Proposed Improvement Around Harlem Meer, Central Park, Manhattan (Glossy Print} Black & White,(Map f i l e ) ? 9 Unfinished Playgrounds ML 42-1407 Inwood Park Boat Basin ML 183-103 Pldg adjacent t o P.S. 108 XL 141*106 ?lgd. adjoining P.S. #81 XL 135-107 New plgd, & comfort station, Bailejr Are* fit West 234 St. XL 136-105 New plgd* Harris Park BL 219-104 P l g d . , Truxton, Sackman & fulton Sfcs* QL 301-104 Plgd* a d j . P.S.40 %L 302-104 Plgd., S t . Felix & Seneca Aves., 75 12042 1S5 SATURDAY RTMENT OF PARKS March 1 3 , 1943 ARSENAL. CENTRAL PARK TEL. REGENT 4-1000 For Release. Bids were opened today by the Department of Parks at the Arsenal Building in Central Par1.: on a contract for the completion of nine park projects left in various stages of progress by the W.P.A. Widely spaced throughout the City, these improvements comprise six new playgrounds, ranging from one to four acres; the reconstruction of the Harlem Meer section of Central Park, I;anhattan; a new ten acre athletic field in the Bronx, at Bedford Park Boulevard and Goulden Avenue and a new boat basin in Inwood Eill Park, Manhattan. In most instances the new recreational facilities are being provided in old neighborhoods where existing park areas are completely lacking or are too distant to be readily accessible to mothers and children. It is essential to complete these unfinished 1V.P.A* projects as quickly as 'possible to "protect the work already done and the public using the parks in and adjacent to these uncompleted areas. To leave them in their pre- sent condition until after the war would be a serious waste of funds already expended. Although the contract allows about eight months for completion, it is expected that most of the playgrounds will be opened for usage about mid- summer of this year. With the exception of basic materials such as sand, stone, cement, topsoil, etc. which do not require priorities, items needed for the completion of the projects are now in the possession of the City and no critical materials are necessary. . i The projects are as follows; Manhattan 1. HARLEM MEER, CENTRAL PARK, the largest improvement consists of the reconstruction of the northeastern corner of Central Park extending from Conser- vatory Gardens to 110th Street and from Fifth Avenue to East Park Drive. The new development which is about 50^ completed retains with slight modification the original shape of the lake, presently drained for construction operations. A new fifteen foot promenade is being built around the shore line completely encircling the lake. Frequent connections will be made to a secondary path system which will parallel the shore promenade and connect with the main park entrances from Fifth Avenue, 110th Street, Conservatory Gardens and the general park path system. The south slopes and ravines will be interlaced with foot paths and trails winding through interesting plantings leading to tree shaded overlook benches from whinh the lake and Conservatory Gardens may be viewed. Benches will also be conveniently spaced along the lake promenade and the general path system including the trails* tlC'y A A combination brick boathouse, comfort station and refreshment con- cession with, a 360 foot boat landing platform are the main features of the north shore adjacent to 110th Street. Two new entrances will be opened in the north wall of the park with stone stairways leading to the boathouse plaza. Convenient approaches to the two existing marginal playgrounds, north and east of the lake, will be provided. Appropriate trees including Maples, Oaks and Dogwoods and various flowering shrubs will be added to the existing planting. 2. n-IU_qOD_ KILL j^ARK,_j30AT BASIN AREA; the boat basin was formed by joining an island in the bed of the old Spuyten Duyvil Creek to Manhattan with fill. Approximately 80^ completed, the development included in this contract will provide riprap along the shore of the one acre oval shaped basin, two small parking fields, a concrete storage building for fifty canoes, a waterfront promenade adjacent to the riprapped banks and a central bulkheadsd plaza which will be the site of a future administration and boat concession building. The island will be planted with shade trees and lawns. 109 STRBBTS, one acre in extent and about 9Ofo completed, is located in the eastern half of the block. The entire block was acquired by the City in 1941 for a school site and playground. Clearing the densely built up area of old four and five story brick and brownstone buildings was started in September of 1941. The school site was levelled and surfaced with a mixture of sand and cinders. Playground facilities including four handball courts, three shuffleboard courts and a softball diamond have been opened to the public since late last summer. The new contract provides for installing chain link fence and benches, completion of the comfort station, and equipment for the volley ball and basket ball courts. Bronx ATJTEST 234 STRLET Ai^D BAILEY AVENUE, about 9(# com- pleted and three acres in extent, was originally acquired for school purposes in 1929 and was assigned last year to the Department of Parks. At present it is enclosed by eight foot chain link fence with two entrances from Tiest 234 Street. It is sub-divided into units by tree planted block paved mails and contains a wading pool, comfort station flanked by two narrow units of play apparatus for pre-school and older children, slides and -3- seesaws in the pre-school section, a court games area with three handball courts and three bocci courts, and a softball diamond with backstop. This latter area may also be used for roller skating and free play. The contract provides for the completion of the comfort station, a sandpit, swings, a pipe frame exercise unit, laying granite blocks, erection of a flagpole, construction of a concrete retaining wall, erection of a chain link fence and the planting of shade trees. 5. ATHLETIC FIELD AT BEDFORD PARK BOULEVARD, PAUL AND GOULDEN AVENUES AND 205 STREET, which is about 50$ developed, was formerly part of the Jerome Park Reservoir. It was placed under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks in 1940 by assignment from the Department of Y.'ater Supply, Gas and Electricity. The ten acre park is readily accessible from the Grand Concourse via West Bed- ford Park Boulevard and West 205 Street. The new contract provides for completing a portion of the ultimate L-shaped bleachers, four regulation baseball and trro softball diamonds with back- stops, four football fields, benches and drinking fountains. A brick field house of modern detail with lockers, comfort station and refreshment concession will be built after the war. 6. PLAYGROUND AT WHITE PLAINS ROAD, EAST 225 TO EAST 226 STREETS, was acquired in 1941 by the City for school and recreational purposes. The Board of Education removed the old one and a half story frame school annex adjacent to the playground and added a wing to the old two story brick building. The new one and one-quarter acre playground which is about 85% com- pleted will be operated by the Board of Education during school hours and at all other times by the Department of Parks for community usage. A one quarter acre parcel of the old school property located north of the new school wing has been in included in the playground development. A court games area developed on the old school grounds will contain a combination volley ball and basket ball court, three paddle tennis courts and two shuffleboard courts. Adjacent to this area will be a wading pool and two handball courts. Two play areas containing the typical play apparatus will lie between the school house and the combination softball diamond. Brooklyn 7. PLAYGROUND AT EASTERN PARKWAY, FULTON, TRUXTON AND SAC IP IAN STREETS, is divided into two sections by Sackman Street. Slightly over three and a half acres it was originally acquired by the Board of Transportation for subway pur- poses and was transferred in 1940 to the Department of Parks. Restrictions were placed on construction because of the existing subway. The Board of Transportation, in connection with the building of a subway entrance, has provided concrete retaining walls around the larger easterly section coordinating this work with the Department of Parks playground plans. The smaller triangle between Eastern Parkway and Sackman Street opened to the public in November 1942, includes a sitting area witha memorial flagpole, a roller skating track; a comfort station) a sand pit, wading pool and several pieces of kindergarten play apparatus. The large triangle east of Sackman Street which is about 80% completed will when the new contract is finished, contain two basketball, six shuffleboard, three paddle tennis, three handball, two bocci, and four horseshoe courts, and a sitting area near the subway entrance. A large central open play area will serve for roller skating and softball. Queens 8. PLAYGROUND A T 109 & BRINCKERHOFF AVENUES, 108 & UNION HALL STREETS, which is about 80% completed, lies adjacent to Public School #40. The new develop- ment to be operated jointly by the Department of Parks and the Board of Education for school and neighborhood play, will utilize the entire block acquired by con- demnation. When completed the playground will provide the following facilities: eight concrete surfaced handball courts, wading pool, brick comfort station, sand pit and sitting area, seesaws, slides and swings for pre-school and older children, a pipe frame exercise unit, two large open free play areas, three practice basket ball standards, one basketball court with removable standards, two softball diamonds with hooded chain link backstops, three paddle tennis courts and three shuffleboard courts. Gate controlled entrances will be readily accessible from the school building and the boundary walks. 9, PLAYGROUND AT ST. FELIX, SENECA, FOREST AND 75 AVENUES, adjacent to Public School #68 is about 90% completed and was opened in part in January of this year. It is operated during school hours by the Board of Education and at all other times by the Department of Parks* The present development provides a softball diamond with hooded chain link backstop, combination volley ball and basket ball courts with removable standards, paddle tennis courts with removable nets and posts, shuffleboard courts, concrete surfaced handball courts, sand pit and sitting area, pipe frame exercise unit, seesaws, swings, brick comfort station and concrete wading pool* Under this contract one wing of the L-shaped bleachers will be built. It also includes drainage, irrigation, drinking fountains, park lighting, new · sidewalks, fencing, completion of the comfort station and other miscellaneous items. The three lowest bids for the completion of these nine park areas which are described above were submitted by the following contractors: 1. Prank Mascali & Sons, Inc. $182,482.50 4634 Third Avenue, Bronx, New York 2« Balaban Gordon Company, I n c . 198,695.15 220 Yfest 42 S t r e e t , New York City 3. Flushing Asphalt 222,446.25 168-22 91st avenue, Jamaica, New York *** * #** ATLANTIC OCEAN =NEW PLAYGROUND i=BOAT BASIN ^RECONSTRUCTED PARK AREA 1 F lo · BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN ·* v i 3 A V h" 0 ro 0 0 O 10 < IxJ -<··«<«··.':····.··;.· ·······v>.u-:/r.J \:'! o o CO PLNNGR.OUND TO P. S. 1O8 O3 J.CO. 03 O o CD en CD o F m -< IO m z c m 00 ·SO X N£W PLAYGROUND 4 COMFORT STATION DW& -XL-135-/O'/ BAILEY AVENUE f W£ST Z3VTH STREET 3/3// #2 H.C. 00 o GOULDEN AVE. 1 o m c o (K FOOTBALL a BASEBALL m <^ >5 CD x o PAUL AVE. T3 V o c E A S T 226 S T z o O o 2 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO-21 CHILDREN S PLAY AREA E A S T 2 2 5 S T. BOROUGH OF THE BRONX 60 120 130 240 ^ TRUXTON HANDBALL Q - "OLLER SKAT/NG COURTS ©O# \ V NEW PLAYGROUND 100 3O BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN ' ° IOO 2OO" Sff. UNION HALL ST > u. O X QC CD 160 ST BOROUGH OF QUEENS 3Zo PLAYGROUND 5T. FELIX 4- 5E1NLCA AVE.S., T5 AVE. 9- \tJb~eS~*~ ' ,-iyv- "February" 3, 1943 The Park Department offers to school vacationists and others an opportunity to attend a roller skating show at the New York City Building, Flushing Meadow Park, Wednesday evening, February 3, at 8 P.M. The cast of the r o l l s r revue will consist of a group of top- notch skaters. The show i t s e l f will follow the traditional pattern of stage revues and include such specialty numbers as spinning, barrel jumping, spiralling, and other individual roller skating stunts. There will be free-style skating together with costume and obstacle racing. As a finale, the entire cast of 80 performers in costume will present a ballet culminating in Y for Victory. The New York City Building at Flushing Meadow Park can be reached by the Flushing branch of the IRT or BMT subways, to the 111th Street station; there i s a short walk to the building. I t can also be reached by taking the Independent Subway to Grand Avenue Station and then take the Flushing-Ridgewood Trolley to Horace Harding Boulevard and Grand Central Parkway, or take the Flushing-Ridgewood Trolley to Horace Harding Boulevard and Grand Central Parkway. * * * DEPARTMENT OF PARKS t r? T> 7 » * * * , ARSENAL,, CENTRAL L PARK * FoT BjlMSe ******** REGENT 4-1000 1)pJL~*t*%~*~J February 3, 1943 I have been asked by several people to comment on the proposed change in the Zoning Resolution, Section 21-C, which was Calendar No. 45 at the Planning Commission meeting of January 27th. At ray request, the hearing on this matter was continued until February 10th because I was convinced that the public didn't realize the importance of this proposed change. The following is the proposed resolution* Portions proposed to be dropped are in brackets ( ) , and new material is underlined: ARTICL3 V.--GBORAL AND ABUNISTRATIVB | 21-C. SITE PLAKS FOR L H R G E (HESUHNTIAL) DEVELOPMENTS. Upon presentation to the Board of Standards and Appeals of a site plan showing the location of (dwellings) buildings and open spaces on an area not less than 75,000 square feet in extent, the Board, after public notice and hearing and after a favorable report from the City Planning Commission, may grant a variance from the use, height and area provisions of this resolution; pro- vided that the ratio of the floor area of the building or buildings to the area of the lot does not exceed that permitted by this resolution; and further provided that the Board is satisfied that the provision of light and air is in all respects adequate to the special circumstances of the particu- lar case and at least equivalent to the requirements of this resolution; and further provided that the minimum distance between any two buildings is not less than 6 inches per foot of height and in no case less than 20 feet. The section as it exists today permits the owner of a piece of property containing 75,000 square feet or more to present to the Board of Standards and Appeals site plans showing the locations of dwellings. After a public hearing by the Board of Standards and Appeals and after a favorable report from the City Planning Commission, the Board of Standards and Ax3peals can., grant exceptions from the established Use, Area and Height zoning. The reason this section was enacted originally was to permit the developers of a * * · · large tract, such as the Parkchester development in the Bronx, to include stores required to serve the community as a part of the plan, and to eliminate the necessity for following the usual procedure of changing the zoning maps. In these cases, the non-conforming use would be a minor part of the whole de- velopment and the major part of the use would be residential. In the new proposal, by substituting the word "buildings* for "dwellings*, the whole meaning of the resolution is changed, -#·#*·*> t t - 2 - If such a resolution is passed by the Planning Commission and ap- proved by the Board of Estimate, it will be possible for the owner of a parcel as small as a half block in the middle of a residential community to go to the Board of Standards and Appeals and the Planning Commission and, after a public hearing before that Board, obtain approval of the construction of a factory, rendering plant, slaughter house, or any other objectionable use. This could be done in spite of the fact that the area was zoned for residential use. Such power should not be given to the Board of Standards and Appeals nor to the Planning Commission. The responsibility for such major changes must continue to rest in the Board of Estimate, with the elected officials of the city. One of the duties of the Board of Standards and Appeals is to grant necessary exceptions from the zoning ordinance, not to make major, broad changes in the. established son.es throughout the city. The proponents of this amendment argue that this will pjraiit. more rigid control of projected developments. The danger lies in the fact that it will also permit a serious breakdown in what is nov; a fairly rigid resolution. It is conceivable that there will be times in the future, as there have been in the past, when there will be corrupt officials who would love to take ad- vantage of the opportunity offered by this proposed change. Home owners who have established residences in areas restricted to residential use look to the elected officials of the city, sitting as the Board of Estimate, to protect them from undesirable encroachments. If a major change is proposed, especially in the Use district, it should continue to go through the established procedure for zone changes, that is, the Planning Commission and then to the Board of Estimate. In this way, it is given a complete airing and the property owner is given an adequate oppor- tunity to protect his interests. This resolution eliminates the Board of Estimate altogether and should be defeated. I urge that those interested appear before the Planning Commission on February 10th at 2:30 P.M. in City Hall to voice their opposition. ROBERT M0S3S Commissioner of Parks. 26AaQM-12042 DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL., CENTRAL. PARK · 4 tOT Rp.lP.aSP. TEL. RESENT 4-1000 January 25,1943 In order to forestall anticipated difficulties in securing young men eligible to assume positions as lifeguards at the New York City pools and beaches for the coming summer, the Park Department has instituted a Municipal Lifeguard Training Course. This course, scheduled to begin on February 19, 1943, will con- sist of ten weeks of intensive training leading to qualification for employ- ment as lifeguards at the New York City pools and beaches. Classes will be held at the indoor pools of the Park Department. In addition to qualifying young men as lifeguards, the course should be of great value as pre-induction training. Applications are now being accepted from male citizens who will have reached their seventeenth birthday by July 1, 1943, or persons 18 or over who, for reasons of selective service deferment, can accept summer positions. The instructors are employees of the Park Department who have had many years of lifeguard work at both beaches and pools. The course of study will consist of the Standard American Red Cross Senior Lifeguard Course plus resuscitation and inhalator operation, beach and pool control, use and care of lifesaving equipment, and surf technique. The Park Department will circularize metropolitan colleges, high schools, private schools, the YMCA, YMEIA, and swimming clubs in order to enroll as many as possible for the course* All candidates will receive a thorough medical examination before they are permitted to participate in the course. Only those physically qualified will be accepted. The department has received assurances of cooperation from the American Red Cross, the Civil Service Commission, and the Board of Educa- tion. Applications can be secured from any of these agencies or directly from the Department of Parks, Arsenal Bvd 1<3ing, <"tantral Park, f-ith Street and 5th Avenue, Hew York City. * * * f-f DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CMTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE ; Saturdayj, ^ TEL. R3GSMT 4-1000 January 23j 1943 Q> The Department of Parks announces that a City-wide ice carnival will.be held on Sunday, January 24, at 2:00 P.M. at the 59 Street Lake, Central Park. Eliminations have been held in each of the five boroughs. The first four winners of each of the following ice-skating events will be eligible to compete in the finals on Sunday. Boyj3 _GirLs Juvenile 9 - 1 1 years 75 yds. 75 yds. Junior 12 - 14 years 220 yds. 100 yds. Intermediate 15 - 17 years 440 yds. 220 yds. Senior Unlimited over 17 years 220 yds. 440 yds. & 1 mile In addition there will be a special feature event for figure skaters. Prizes will be awarded to first, second and third place winners in .each event. · * * $ 0 K^ H- DEPARTMENT OF PARKS F0R ARSEKAL, CENTRAL PARK -^ fill RELEASE Thursday t | TEL. EEGENT 4-1000 J>i«^ve>^# Hi.ol^^ January 2T, 1943 The Department of Parks announces a s e r i e s of 14 boxing bouts t o be held a t t h e East 54 S t r e e t Gymnasium, Manhattan, on Thursday, January 2 1 , at 8:00 P.LI, A l l the boxers, who w i l l take p a r t in these b o u t s , have t r a i n e d a t Park Department boxing c e n t e r s , under t h e s u p e r v i s i o n of Park p e r s o n n e l . There w i l l be r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s from t h e 85 pound c l a s s through t h e middleweight d i v i s i o n . Competitors range in age from 15 t o 17-g- y e a r s . Judges for t h e s e e x h i b i t i o n s a r e : Fred Delaney of t h e Flushing Y.M.C.A, and Harold Glasco, Michael 0'Connell, Jack Kalmbach. and James 0'Donne11 of the Department of P a r k s . P r i z e s w i l l be -awarded t o t h e winner of each b o u t . The Park Department extends a c o r d i a l i n v i t a t i o n t o t h e public for t h i s occasion. Admission i s f r e e . * * * DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE Monday, TEL. RSGSNT 4-1000 J a n u a r y I f ,1943 BL 218-105 Pix: 21958 218-104 219S9 21960 The Department of Parks announces that Paerdegat Park, a ne?7 park and playground, slightly over three and a half acres in extent occupying the entire block bounded by Albany Avenue, Foster Avenue, East 40 Street and Farragut Road, Brooklyn, is open to the public. It provides active and pas- sive recreation for all age groups. It was purchased from the New York Water Service Corporation in 1941 for recreational use and placed under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks. The entire playground is enclosed with chain link fence with five entrances conveniently located. An existing grove of 18W to 20 w caliper Oak trees has been pre- served in a fence enclosed grass plot at the north end of the park. Cen- trally located is a brick comfort station and wading pool with a variety of fence protected play apparatus units. Bordering these facilities is an ad- jacent court games area whic;;. includes three sliuffleboard and two handball court s« The south end of the park contains two bituminous surfaced soft- ball diamonds with hooded backstops. The existing concrete boundary walks have been widened and bordered with a double row of Pin Oaks in concrete block paved panels. Several varieties of shrubs have been grouped for screening purposes around the grass surfaced Oak grove. The construction of the playground was done by the Work Projects Administration from plans prepared by the Department of Parks. In 1934 there were 119 playgrounds in the park system, 66 of which have been recon- structed. There are now with this addition 487 playgrounds in the park system, * * * - 00 DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK IDE RELEASE Thursday, TEL. REGENT 4 - 1 0 0 0 210-101 January 14, 1943 210-102 The Department of Parks announces the gift to the City of a new recreation area in St. Albans, Queens. The Federal Government recently acquired the old St. Albans Golf Course for a naval hospital and has given to the City approximately 3-7/10 acres of land at the intersection of Baisley Boulevard and Merrick Road for a new park and playground. I t has also deeded 1-1/2 acres of land needed for a 15-foot widening of Baisley Boulevard along the hospital frontage and for the opening to i t s full width of 115th Avenue from 175th Street to 179th Street, The Board of Estimate and the City Planning Commission agreed to remove from the City map a number of proposed streets through the property in order to f a c i l i t a t e the development of the hospital as one large unit. The widening of the bounding streets i s necessary in order to compensate for the removal of these streets and to provide for a normal increase in through traffic as the outlying sections of Queens become more densely populated. The playground will be developed largely for active recreation and will contain play apparatus for both pre-school and school age children, as well as court games for adults and two softball fields. The improvement of this playground will be carried out as part of the New York City post-war program. * * * DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL P PARK ,L(t - FORRELEASE Monday, TEL. REGENT 4 - 1 0 0 0 PlansS QIi 302-103 "HT-T*^ January i l , 302-104 Pix: #21952 The Department of Parks announces the opening of a new playground in . Queens adjacent to Public School j#68 located in the area bounded by Seneca Avenue, St. Felix Avenue, 60th Place and the Manhattan Division of the Long Island Rail- road, This irregular shaped plot was assentled by the condemnation of two parcels north of the school building on each side of 60th Street which has been closed and transferred to the Department of Parks. These three properties totaling 3 acres together with the existing one half acre playground west of the school permitted the development of an adequate neighborhood playground. It will be operated during school hours by the Board of Education and at all other times by the De- partment of Parks. The new playground consisting of three fence enclosed, subdivided sec- tions contains a softball diamond with hooded chain link backstop, combination volleyball and basketball courts with removable standards, paddle tennis courts with removable nets and posts, shuffleboard courts, concrete surfaced handball courts, irrigated sand pit and sitting area, pipe frame exercise unit, seesaws, slides, swings, brick comfort station and a concrete wading pool. The entire development as well as the separate units is bordered with chaia link fence and a five foot wide panel of blocks containing benches and trees.- The projectJ:also includes drainage, irrigation, drinking fountains, park lighting, fencing and a new concrete sidewalk along the north side of St. Felix Avenue. The construction of the playground was done by the infork Projects Admin- istration from plans prepared by the Department of Parks. In 1934 there were 119 playgrounds in the five boroughs, 66 of which have been reconstructed. There are now with this new addition 486 playgrounds in the park system, * * * ··· DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSEKAL, CENTRAL PARK F V ^ KS---'-- Januarv 10, 1943 TEL. REGMT 4-1000 "" Tlie Department of Parks Children's Marionette and Magic Shows continue to interest thousands of New York City's children. The Christmas program of this troupe was well attended and so successful that numerous requests for repeat performances have been received. Consideration was given to these in the new schedule. Twenty-eight additional performances of "Hansel and G-retel" and "Jack and the Beanstalk" will be given at various public centers and parks t??.rougliout the City beginning Monday, January 11, at 3:30 P.M. and running through Thursday, February 11, in accordance with the attached schedule. (D CITY OF NEJ YOI-QC D£PARTi.JKT Cv PAJKS S AND MAGIC 3H0JS * * * Monday, January 11 3:30 P.M. East Side House, o40 East 76th St. Tuesday, ' January 12 3:30 P.M. Chelsea Health Center, 303 Ninth Ave. Wednesday, January 13 2:30 P.M. N.Y.Foundling Hospital, 175 E. 68th 3t· Thursday, January 14 3:30 P.M. Madison Square Boys Club, 301 E. 29th Friday, January 15 3:30 P.M. Harlem Children's Center, 28 VJ. 134th Saturday, January 16 11:00 A.M. Carmine Street Gym, Carmine St. & 7th 2:30 P.M. BRONX: Monday, January 18 · 3:30 P.M. - Children's Society (SPCC) 1130 Grand Concourse. Tuesday, January 19 · 10:00 A.M. - P. S. #65, Cypress Ave. & 141st St.. VJednesday, January , 20 · 10:00 A.M. - P. S. ,/38, St. Ann's Ave. andxteie Street, 154th Street, Thursday, January 21 -. 3:30 P.k. - Mt. Eden Center, 1660 Morris Ave, Friday, January 22 · 3:30 P.M. - Bronx House, 1637 Washington Ave, Saturday, January 23 · 11:00 A.M. - James J, Lyons Playground, Aldus St a , Bryant and Whitlock Aves, · 2:30 P.M. QUEENS: Monday, January 25 3:30 P.M. Convalescent Home for Hebrew Children 110-66 Ocean Promenade U-tockaway Park) Tuesday, January 26 3:30 P.M. Queens General Hospital - Children's Jard, 161st St. & 82nd Drive, Jamaica. .·Wednesday, January 27 3:30 P.M. Ottilie Orphan Home of New York, 144-25 - 87th Ave., Jamaica. Thursday, January 28 3:30 P.M. South Jamaica iiousi-ng, 108th Ave., 159th Street, South Jamaica. Friday, January 29 3:30 P.M. Child Service League, 136-60 - 38th Avenue, Flushing. Saturday, January 30 11:00 A.M. Queensbridge Housing, 10-06 - 41st Ave Long Island City. 2:30 P.M. BROOKLYN: Monday, February 1 3:30 P.M. Convent of Mercy Orphans, 273 ./illougiaby Avenue, Tuesday, February 2 3:30 P.M. St. John's home for Boys, 992 St. Marks Avenue ·fedneaday, February 3 m Thursday, February 4 3:30 P.M. 3:30 P..vl. Angel Guardian Home, 12th. Ave. & 64tl Hebrew Educational Society, 564 Hopkinson Avenue, Friday, February 5 3:30 P.M. Boys Club, Navy Yard District, 176 Nassau Street. Saturday, February 6 11:00 A.M. JPlatbush Boys Club, 2245 Bedford Ave. 2:30 P.M. Hudson Ave. Boys Club, 377 Hudson Ave< Tuesday, February 9 - 3:30 P.M. ialker Park, Bard & Davis Aves. Livingston. s Wednesday, February 10 - 3:30 P.I... Jewish Community Center, i75 Victory Boulevard. Tompkinsville, Thursday, February 11 - 3:30 P.M. Goodhue Community Center, 298 Prospect Ave., New Brighton July - December 1943 68. 7/1 Three gorillas afirive from Africa 69. 7/3 Second of Naumburg concert series held 70. 7/6 Puppet and marionette schedule 71. 7/6 Barber Shop Quartet ninth Ballad Contest scheduled 72. 7/9 Men's tennis singles borough championship scheduled 73. 7/10- Golf tournament planned 74. 7/14 Swimming meet t r i a l s 75. 7/16 Golf and tennis matches 76. 7/17 Mr. Moses's comments as O.P.A. lifjrs r e s t r i c t i o n s on vacation trave1 77. 7/18 Six more name bands added to concert and dance program 78. 7/19 Second concert of Music in Wartime series 79. 7/21 Fallow deer born in Prosect Park 80. 7/25 Third concert of Music in wartime series 81. 7/30 City-wide finals in Municipal Tennis Championships 82. 7/30 Third concert in Naumburg Memorial series performed 83. 8/3 National Orchestral Association performs fourth concert 84. 8/4 Additional surf casting areas designated 85. 8/4 Rebuttal to city council's claim that Harlem riot was caused by inadequate parks 86. 8/7 City-wide finals in golf championships 87» 8/10 Final concerts sponsored by League of Composers scheduled 88, 8/11 Bight additional orchestras added to summer concert and dance program 89r 8/14 Buffalo and Asiatic deer born in Prospect Park 90. 8/14 Semifinals of tennis tournament 91. 8/16 Finals of swimming tournament date set 92. 8/17 Baby llama born in Central Park 93. 8/18 New playground completed at 234th St., and .Bailey Ave., Bronx 94. 8/18 Advice on eliminating caterpillars 95. 8/20 Twenty eighth Annual Dance Festival scheduled 96. 8/20 City-wide finals in horseshoe pitching 97. 8/22 Seven additional orchestras scheduled in summer concert and dance program 98 8^24 City-wide military and novice events in the Park Association; of New York City Fourth Annual Sports Tournament 99. 8/26 Jacks contest for girls 100. 8/27 Checkers contest 10CM8/29 Harvest dance contest for novices f o r 102, 9/2 Robert Moses's reply to A.P. report of survey Kaiser's post war public works for the City of Portland Oregon.. 103. 9/5 Fourth and final Naumburg Memorial concert held 104. Dance schedule by Gon Edison orchestra 105. 9/19 Finals of second Harvest Dance Contest scheduled 106. 9/22 Fall crops from children's gardens harvested 107. 9/23 Columbia University band concert 108. 9/26 lew playground at 225th St. and White Plains Ed., Bronx (maps attached) 109. 10/2 Ice and r o l l e r rinks to open in Queens HOP 10/8 Enrollment in New York Foundation Fall Sports Tournament 111. 10/10 Magic and mus^jj.0 program scheduled 112. 10/15 Three lion cubs born in Brooklyn 113. 10/19 Tavern on the Green newly renovated, reopens 114. 10/22 Borough finals in New York *Fall Sports Foundation Tournament 115. 10/22 Mrs Albert Lasker donates two million chrysanthemums in jaemory, of her mother, Sara Woodard UfiO ft0l«>-fa-one jvtodt. on OWN* O * epti 116. 10/30 Ti t e l jtot f on th p Tennis courts close for the season 117. 10/30 City-wide handball finals in N.Y.F. Fall Sports Tournament 118. 11/5 City-wide volley b a l l finals in iCT.F. Fall Sports Tournament. 119. H//5 Indoor chrysanthemum show in Brooklyn 11/18 New playground planned in Harlem 11/13 Borough finals in N.Y.F. Fall Sports Tournament in r o l l e r hockey to be held 12a 11/27 Municipal golf courses clos^e for the season 123. 12/3 Boxing program scheduled 124. 12/3 City finals in N.Y.F. Fall Sports Tournament of r o l l e r hockey 125. 12/8 Harlem Meer reopens 126. 12/12 Christmas program features puppet and marionette shows 127. 12/13 Press release regarding American City magazine a r t i c l e ·foofWf 129.* 12/20 ipo*rts "Tournament 150. 12/20 New playground in Queens 151. 12/27 Awards presented in N.Y.F. F a l l Sports Tournament i. i^mzm OF /,'/> TI Dec^Diber 27, 1943 4-1000. The Department of Parks announces that presentation of awards to the winners of the New York Foundation Fall Sports Tournament will take place at the New York Oity Center of Music and Drama, 130 West 56 Street, Manhattan, on Tuesday, December 28, at 2;30 P.M. The awards will consist of -yilO.OO in War Stamps to all the city- wide winners, and $5»00 to the runners-up, A short program of musical selections, magic acts and gymnastic stunts will be presented by the children of the park playgrounds. This Fall Sports Tournament made possible by the New York Founda- tion through the good offices of the Park Association of New York City, Inc., embraces volleyball, handball, roller hockey, touch football and roller skating carnivals. Contests began September 21 and terminated on December 19. 9,986 boys and girls, 12-18 years of age took part in these activities before a total spectator audience of 51,550. The invited guests include Mrs. Arthur Hays Sulzberger, President of the Park Association of New York City, Inc., and David Heymen, President of the New York Foundation. * * * * Monday c 20, 1943 Jt "form. 26A-5M-73141 . DEPARTMENT OF PARK? ^ ^ , xF F o f Release- or ( ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARKj' *\ V -- ~ w I -1 t J> T E U REGENT 4-1000 The Department of Parks announces the opening of a new playground at Brixickerhoff Avenua anc%Union;'Hall Street, Queens. This is A e of nine ;o. rk projects left unfinished by the J.P.A. which has bee^%coaplefed by contract. The nev; plajrground is adiacent to Public School $40. It is one of tany neighborhood playgrounds which m i l be built under a program of joint operation agreed upon by the Board of Education and the Department of Parks. The n?« development v;ill be operated jointly by theso deportments for school and neighborhood pity. The playground has an area of 3,3 acres and contains the f ollo>v ,ng. facilities; eight concrete surface handball courts, "wading pool, sand pit and sittinc areaj seesaws, slides and swings for pre-school and older children, a pipe fraiae exercise unit, tv;o large open free-play areas, three practice basketball standards, one basketball court with removable standards, tviO softball diauonds ·with hooded chain link backstops, threepodfllo tennig courts and three shuffle board courts. Gate controlled entrances are readily accessible f roi'i the school build- ing and the boundary walks. A brick coafort station substantially completed cannot be finished at this tine because the ;aate"iel needed is considered critical by the 'w,p,B. In 1934 there -ere 119 playgrounds in the five boroughs, 67 of which have been reconstructed. There till be, with this nes addition, 489 playgrounds in the park system. i ··'*t. t ARS3NAI,, CENTRAL EAEK FOR R3L3AS3 Mondayt. H3G3NT 4 - 1 0 0 0 December 20, 1943 The Department of Parks announces that the New York Community Trust will sponsor a Winter Sports Championship, to take place "between January 1, 1944 and March 31, 1944. The activities will include basket- ball, outdoor ice skating, track athletics, boxing, table tennis, instrumental music, indoor roller skating and handcraft. Boys and girls up to 18 years will be permitted to compete for the prizes donated by the New York Community Trust, These prizes vail consist of a ^25,00 War Bond to each city-wide winner and £10*00 in War Stamps to the runner-up* Prizes consisting of War Savings Stamps will be awarded to the winners of district and borough competitions. It is estimated that the entry will total 50,000, of whom 2,776 contestants will receive an award. Entry blanks are available in all Park Department offices and will be forwarded to schools, neighborhood civic organizations and interested persons* The Board of I3ducation is cooperating by making school indoor facilities available for the basketball and musical instrument contests, which cannot be held outdoors. This championship is fart of an all year program of sports con- ducted under the auspices of the Department of Parks, last spring a similar tournament also sponsored by the New York Community Trust was held outdoors in all parks and playgrounds. There were 45,765 entries and 40 contestants received War Bonds. The New York Community Trust has donated ^15,000 for conducting this Winter Sports Championship, and it is expected that there will be a larger entry and a greater interest on the part of the competitors and spectators. Posters will appear in all subway cars publicizing Winter Sports Championship. This active recreational program will help to counteract juvenile delinquency and vandalism. Attached is an entry blank of the Winter Sports Championship* Attach. ENTRY BLANK CITY O FN E W Y O R K D E P A R T M E N T O F PARKS NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST WINTER SPORTS CHAMPIONSHIP BOYS A N D GIRLS UP T O 18 YEARS Activity Date of Finals Activity Date of Finals Basketball · March 31st East 54th St. Gym. Table Tennis February 19th Mullaly Plgd., Bx. Outdoor Ice Skating January 16th Instrumental Music February 11 th Prospect Park Washington Irving H. S. Track Meet · Date and Location to be announced Handcraft Exhibition · March 6 - 11th Museum of the City of Boxing March 24th N. Y. a Lost Battalion Hall Indoor Roller Skating · March 3rd City Building Please enter me in the events checked above. NAME AGE DATE OF BIRTH ADDRESS BOROUGH.. PLAYGROUND OR ORGANIZATION TEAM REPRESENTS . INFORMATION FOR COMPETITORS 1. Check off event and give your entry blank to any Park Department Playground Personnel or forward your entry to the Supervisor of Recreation at Manhattan --Arsenal Building, 64th Street & Fifth Avenue. New York City 21, N. Y. Brooklyn -- Litchfield Mansion, Prospect Park West & Fifth Street, Brooklyn 15, N. Y. Queens --The Overlook, Forest Park, Kew Gardens, Queens 15, N. Y. Bronx --Administration Building, Bronx Park East & Birchall Avenue, Bronx 60, N. Y. Richmond --Clove Lake Field House, Clove Lake Road & Victory Blvd., S. I., N. Y. 2. Any person who has won a Park Department Championship for two consecutive years in the same class is not eligible to compete. 3. Names, addresses, age and date of birth of members of tea ms should be forwarded to the Playground Director or Super- visor. 4. There is no entry fee for any of th© events. 5. The date of closing of entries will determine the eligibility as to the age of the contestant. 6. All contestants must compete in their particular age classification in all sports. 7. Prizes donated by the New York Community Trust will consist of a $25 War Bond to the city-wide winner and $10 in War Savings Stamps to the runner-up. There will be additional prizes consisting of War Savings Stamps for the winners of district and borough competitions. 8. No contestant may win more than two (2) bonds. BASKETBALL i · RUW5 GOVERNING THE VARIOUSWORTS Closing Date of Entry--January 22nd I. A G E GROUPS: Jr. Boys (12, 13, 14 Yrs.) · Sr. Boys (15, 16, 17 Yrs.) · Girls (14, 15. 16, 17 Yrs. · 2. A . A . U . basketball rules will govern. All boys games to be played in 8 minute quarters. Girls will play rules published by the National Section on Women's Athletics of the American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation. 3. There will be 8 prizes for the winning teams and not more than 10 names may be included on the roster. OUTDOOR ICE SKATING Closing Date of Entry--January 9th I. EVENTS: a) Park Playground Events BOYS GIRLS Juvenile (9, 10, I I Yrs) · 75 Yds. · 60 Yds. Junior (12, 13, 14 Yrs.) · 100 Yds. · 75 Yds. Intermediate (15, 16, 17 Yrs.) 100 Yds. & 440 Yds · 100 Yds. & 220 Yds. b) Middle Atlantic Skating Association Events a Midget Boys (Under 12 Yrs.) 220 Yds. D Juvenile Boys Under 14 Yrs.) 440 Yds. · Junior Boys Under 16 Yrs.) 440 Yds. a & 880 Yds. a Intermediate Boys Under 18 Yrs.) 880 Yds. a & I Mile a Ladies Intermediate Under 18 Yrs.) 660 Yds. a TRACK MEET I. EVENTS a) Park Playground Events BOYS GIRLS 100 Ib. Class D 50 Yd. Dash · 40 Yd. Dash 120 Ib. Class · 60 Yd. Dash · 50 Yd. Dash 120 Ib. Class · l/4 Mile Relay · 220 Yd. Relay Unlimited · 880 Yd. Run & Unlimited · 1/2 Mile Relay b) Amateur Athletic Union Events · 60 Yd. Dash Handicap · 880 Yd. Run Handicap c) I Mile N.Y.C. High School Relay · (One team from each school) d) I Mile N.Y.C. Private & Catholic High School Relay · (One team from each school) 2. A Point Trophy will be awarded to the Borough scoring the greatest number of points in the Park playground events. Boroughs will be limited to 4 relay teams and 12 contestants in each event. BOXING Closing Date of Entry March 4th Jr. Boys (14, 15 Yrs.) 100 Ib. Class · 105 Ib. Class · 112 Ib. Class 118 Ib. Class · 126 Ib. Class Sr. Boys (16, 17 Yrs.) 118 Ib. Class · 126 Ib. Class · 135 1b. Class 140 Ib. Class TABLE TENNIS Closing Date of Entry--January 29 Singles Tournament for boys and girls in the following age groups: Jr. Boys (Up to 16 birthday) · Sr. Boys (16 to 18 birthday) Q Jr. Girls (Up to 16 birthday) · Sr. Girls (16 to 18 birthday) · HANDCRAFT EXHIBITION Closing Date of Entry--March 1st 1. MATERIAL: All articles must be made of scrap material. (Discarded wood, cardboard, milk containers, paper, boxes, etc.) 2. A G E DIVISIONS: Jrs. (8-11 Yrs.) · Intermediate (12-14 Yrs.) · Sr. (15-17 Yrs.) · 3. H A N D C R A F T : a) For the Home b) Toys and Games c) Generally Useful. 4. Articles must be clearly tagged or marked indicating name, age, and address of the child, what the article is and the material used to make it. All articles may be submitted to the playground director at your neighborhood playground. 5. J U D G I N G : In judging the exhibit, the factors to be considered will be: Usefulness, Originality, Workmanship. 6. Prizes consisting of W a r Savings Stamps will be awarded in each age division. INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC Closing Date of Entry--February 1st 1. A G E DIVISIONS · Jrs. (9, 10, I I Yrs.) · Intermediate (12, 13, 14 Yrs.) · Srs. (15, 16, 17 Yrs.) 2. INSTRUMENT CLASSIFICATIONS · Piano & Xylophone n String Instruments D Wind and all others (drums, accordion etc.) 3. Instruction sheets will be forwarded to all contestants. ROLLER SKATING COMPETITION Closing Date of Entry--February 1st Date of Eliminations (City Building) Division Age Boys Girls MIDGETS I I Yrs. & Under) 150 Yds. · 75 Yds. · Wednesday, February 23--5 P.M. JUNIORS 12, 13 Yrs.) 330 Yds. G 150 Yds. t=f Wednesday, March 1--5 P.M, INTERMEDIATES 14, 15 Yrs.) 300 Yds. Q 225 Yds. · Saturday, February 5--9 P.M. INTERMEDIATES 14, 15 Yrs.) Q Dance Skating for couples Saturday, February 19--9 P.M. (Jr. & Midgets permitted to enter this event) SENIORS 16, 17 Yrs.) 600 Yds. D 300 Yds. · Saturday, February 12--9 P.M. SENIORS 16, 17 Yrs.) · Dance Skating for couples Saturday, February 26--9 P.M. t i>U PARES *" P.APJC FOR RELEASE S a t u r d a y TF.L. R E ; . e n t 4-1000 December 18, 1943 The Department of Parks announces that the city-wade finals of the Eevt York Foundation Fall Sports Tournament in touch football will take place on Sunday, December 19, 2 P.M. at !·'acombs Dam Park, Jerome Avenue and 161 Street, The "ronx. The boys of Lincoln Terrace Playground, represent- ing Brooklyn, will vie with the team froi- Crotona Park, represent- ing The Hronx, for the city crown. These tearrs have eliminated the contenders representing the remaining thre?- boroughs in keenly contested gaL.es. 12,350 enthusiastic spectators have attended these various gaues. The members of the winning -teai... w i l l receive §>10,00 in War Staaps while the runners-up will be a.wardea $5.00 in stamps. Borough ana d i s t r i c t prizes have already bsen dis- tributed. These arizes were made possible by the generosity of the ilew York Foundation throu-.-h the good offices of the Park Association of -Jew York City, Inc. . AJCCl.T ±-1000 December The Park Department announces that ceremonies in connection wit:, twenty-one Christmas trees, which have been erected and decorated in parks throughout tne five borou,>.s, will take place on*I*xicfey, JJecem- ber /L©, at 5 P.U. A special program will be held at tiia principal trees in eac. borough, vj-hic, will be at City ...all Park, Manhattan; Borough ilall Park, Brooklyn; Joyce Kilmer Park, The Bronx; Q,ueensborou:ih Hall, Kew Gardens, Queens, and Borough hall, Hiclimond, MA City Hall Park, tne ceremonies will be broadcast over Station .NYC. Alayor LaGuardia will deliver his annual Christinas message and ·^n-iptir-ailni- Mn^-i^rlririr'n j ; · i__xiin mtwMjjirt---. ie ice and roller skating rinks. D3PA3M2OT OF BABES ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RSL3AS3 Monday.,; TSL. RMJZMT 4-1000 December 13, 1943 TO TH3 EDITOR; Attached for release on Monday, December 13, 1943, is a story and illustrations on "Parks, Parkways, Express Arteries, and Related Plans for New York City After the War»M This story carried in the December issue of The American- City magazine will not appear on the newsstands until Monday, December 13. Attach. - (Story (Glossy Prints ^ j * * * DEPARTMENT Of PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK; FOE RELEASE 3unday TEL, B&WT 4-lOOO \ Deceuiber 12, 1943 The Department of Parks announces t h a t the Christmas program of playground c h i l d r e n ' s a c t i v i t i e s w i l l f e a t u r e 25 puppet and marionette shows, depicting t h e famous fa^ry t a l e s of .ts. 3:00 r.M Thursday, Dec. 30 - /on l^oixlen Playground, 138ta S t r e e t and . a r c e r , 11 j00 A.M. Place, Jamaica " ·* ·· ^ ·' "· ·· ·· · n « 3 ; 0 0 P.K. Friday, Dec. 31 - 0'Oonnell Playground, 113tu Avenue and 196txi S t . , 11:00 ^..M. St. xilbana " ·' " > ·' -t >. « <» » · ·' 3 : 0 0 xJ.M. A CITY OF NS.v YORK SPAHT^LT 0/ PARKS \ Konday, Dec. 13 - Corona Playgrouad, 102nd St., Corona Ave. 11:00 A.M. & 102nd St., Corona. " " - Jackson lei^Sats Playground, S4tJ. Street 3:30 P.M. & 30th Avenue, Jackson weights. Tuesday, Dec, 14 - Grover Cleveland Playground, Grandview Ave. 11:00 A.M. & Staniiope Street, Ridgewood. n 3:30 P.Ivl. - Jackson Pond Playground, 108th Street & Myrtle Avenue, Richmond hill. .Wednesday, Dec. 15 - Raymond O'Connor Playground, 32nd Avenue & 11:00 A.M. 210th .St., Bayside. j ·' · ' < - Flusain , ;-sr,iorial Play.vd, 150th 3t & Bayside Ave. .3:30 P.M, Thursday, Dec. 16 - Sauer Playground, 12t.\; St., near Avenue ''Ir'. 3:30 P.iu. Friday, Dec* 17 - Parkchester - Red Cross 2:00 P.M. i T " " ' - xieckscker Playground, 62nd St. &, Central ifark 3:30 P.M. Saturday, Dec. 18 - J. ..iood Jrig^t Playground, 175ta St. L j-ort 11:00 A.M. -/asliiiigjton Avenue. Dec. 18 - Thomas Jefferson Pool, 114t. . 3t & First Ave. 3:00 P.M. ixonday, Dec. 20 - -/illiarusbridge Pla./^'d, St. k, 11:00 A.M. rsiieu'i Play^'.., O l i n v i l l e Ave. Soutii of 3:30 P.M. xiritton S t r e e t . Tuesday, Dec. S i - Lyons Square Playg'd, Eastern Blvd. & Aldus S t . 11:00 fi.M. " " ·* - i t . Mary's ...ast F l a y j ' d , T r i n i t y ^ve. & 3 . 146th St 3:30 £ .M. iednesday, Dec. 22 - S t . James P l a y e d , Jerome Ave. a 3ast lS2nd S t . 11:00 A . U . « ' :»' · _ Lullaly Playg'd, ilast 16jt:; S t . & , Jerome Ave. 3:30 P.M. Thursday, Dec. 23 - . i l l livoxm ..-.eraorial ^ Ave. & ' 3 : 3 0 jr.lvi. . -onday, Dec. 27 ·xiverdale & oneidiker Aves. Playground 11:00 i*.ivl. n it (i Jetsy i^ead i-'layo'a, -opkinson & 3:00 P.M. Tuesday, vSC. 2S Children's ..use-am, J'klyn Ave. Sc Park Place 1:00 it « .. .. - .' · · · ' · · '. 3:Op Wednesday, -ee. 29 - Levy P i a y . J d , Jewett & Gaatleton Aves. P t . -iiob. 11:00 A.K. ·' . '· " - iicJonald Pla/fe'd, f o r e s t Ave. near Broed.;toa. Tiiarsday, Dec, 30 - De ^ t t i Playground, Touipkins Ave. near S t . ..ary'a 11:00 A.M. .Ave:.ue, .cosebank. ;t ·' n - iyons Pool, Victory Boulevard k, iiirray iiulbert 2:00 P.M. , loiapkiasville. PhotograpMo Prints with Harlem Meer Release Photographic Number 22902 Plan(Reoonstructed Park Area) 22785 Harlem Meer 22786 Block-House. War of 1812 4183 Block House, Central Park, 1943 4178 MoGowan's Pass, Central Park 22914 Approach fo l&ke from the southwest, Harlem Meer, Central Park 22897 Promenade & wall around lake, Harlem Meer, Central Park 22913 Approaohes to Main Park Entrance at Fifth Avenue & 110 Street, Harlem Meer, Central Park 22909 Apppoaoh to Playground, Harlem Meer, Central Park "*·* CF FAJSS ARSUML, CSKTIA^ARK FOR B3ig Wednesday;,. TZL. KaKSNT 4-1000 December 8 , 1943 -JCKV The Department of l?arks announces that it lias reopened to the public the northeastern section of Central Park, known as Harlem Meer, extending from Conservatory Gardens at 105th Street to 110thJ3t£eet and from Fifth Avejme to thg, East Drive, This area is the third and the largest of the park projects left unfin- ished by the WPA, nine of which are now being completed by contract to protect work already done* The general features of the old Harlem Meer area have been retained. All of the improvements were designed to permit increased use of the area and at the same time eliminate maintenance problems by improving access, providing an adequate walk system and a promenade completely around the fourteen-acre lake. This change from a natural lake and informal path system to a formal treatment was necessitated by the tremendous increase in the use of the area and the change in the adjacent neighborhoods. The old lay-out would not accommodate the number of people who were using the area, and provided dangerous, dark areas which, al- though they were not designed for public use, were actually being traversed by many pedestrians. The new development retains with slight modification the original shape of the lake* A four-foot concrete wall and the abutting fifteen-foot promenade form the new shore line completely encircling the lake. Frequent connections have been made to a secondary path system which parallels the shore promenade and connects with the main park entrances from Fifth Avenue, 110th Street, Conservatory G-ardens and the general park path systeiru The existing entrances at the intersection of 110th v3traet and Fifth Avenue and also opposite 3ast 106th Street connect with the marginal path system and lake promenade. Convenient approaches to the two existing marginal play- grounds north and east of the lake have been provided« At ifffe end of the war the 360-foot boat landing platform will be com- pleted, and the combination brick boathouse, comfort station, and refreshment concession will be constructed on the north shore of the Meer near the Fifth Avenue entrance. This work was omitted from the present contract because the material needed is considered critical by the W.P.B. There is no park in the city which can compare with Central Park in the wealth of its historical associations or in the number of objects of historic interest included within its borders. Situated as it is at almost the geographi- cal center of Manhattan Island, practically every road leading to the north from lower Manhattan passed through some part of it and has left its trace. This section of the park is particularly interesting. The first great longitudinal thoroughfare, the Albany Post Road, came up from New Amsterdam considerably east of the park, somewhere,near Third Avenue to a point near 82nd Street where it bent northwest and ran to Fifth Avenue at about 90th Street; thence along Fifth Avenue to about 92nd Street where it entered what is now Central Park and followed the line of the Sast Drive to what was known as McGowan's Pass Tavern at about 105th Street. There, it bent northeast to about 108th Street, where it forked, with one branch coming out at 110th Street and Lenox Avenue and the other at about Fifth Avenue and 109th Street. In 1688 Governor Nicholls confirming the privileges of New Harlem de- fined the dividing line between that village and New Amsterdam (or New York) as running across the park from the northwest corner at 8th Avenue and 110th Street to Fifth Avenue at 96th Street. This line was later changed so that it ran approximately parallel to 110th Street and about 300 feet south of it to about 150 feet west of the park wall, midway between 94th Street and 95th Street thence diagonally southeast leaving the park at 87th Street, The first building to be erected within the present park confines was the Half-way House or Jansan's Tavern which occupied a location in the north- eastern corner near 108th Street. This building was finished in 1684 and flourished for many years# X -3- The next building of note was Dyckman's Stone Tavern which was erected about 1748 by Jacon Dyckman on approximately the same site as that of the McGowan's Pass Tavern. It was an institution of capacity and dignity at which the Colonial Assembly held its session in 1752. In 1780 the widow McGowan purchased the tavern and ten acres of ground from Dyckman and with her son Andrew continued in the tavern business keeping the property in the family until 1845 when the heirs of Andrew McGowan sold it to Thos. E. Odell. Odell retained the property only sixteen months when it passed on April 1, 1847 into the hands of Sister Elizabeth Doyle, first Mother Superior of the New York branch of the Sisters of Charity of St. Yincent de Paul. On May 2, 1847, the spot was consecrated. A north wing was added and in 1848 the south wing was built. In 1850 a large building devoted to scholastic pursuits was erected, a chaplain's house via.s built and in 1855 a chapel and large dining rooms completed the group of academic buildings. After the taking of the buildings by the park in 1856 the Sisters ac- quired property outside the City and in 1858 turned the Academy over to the park authorities. They returned, however, and cared for the wounded of the Civil War, whom the Government had housed in the old convent and academy, until the close of the war in 1865, After acquiring the academy buildings the Commissioners of the Park whils still using some of the buildings as offices on October 19, 1866, authorized the Comptroller to lease the Mt. St. Vincent buildings, or such part thereof as might be necessary, to Alex. McC. Stetson for a refreshment house, the commissioners receiving the right to regulate the kind of refreshments. On December 13, 1866 the Comptroller was also authorized to put the brick building, formerly used for a convent chapel, in such condition that it could be used as a statuary gallery and museum. The buildings were thus occupied by the Park Department, the park police (popularly designated sparrow cops) the -4- statuary hall and the refreshment hall u n t i l March. 13, 1872 when Stetson relin- quished his lease* The tavern was then let to Radford and Ryan who held it until January 2, 1881 when a fire destroyed the "building. There was much protest against i t s being rebuilt and at first the Commissioners had the ruins cleared away, the walls leveled and the ground planted but in 1883, in response to popular demand a new tavern was built on the old site and there remained u n t i l 1917, when it was damaged by fire and later demolished. On April 16, 1884, the name Mt. St. Vincent was officially abolished and on January 3, 1891 the name McGowan's Pass reestablished. The northern end of the park played an important part in the military movements of the Revolutionary War* The pass was a constant road for the passage of troops in 1776 and the route by which the American troops retreated September 15th. The British occupied and fortified the heights along the northern end of the park t i l l 1783, There was no more military activity in the park u n t i l August 18, 1814, when a fort as part of the c i t y ' s precaution against British invasion, was begun at McGowan's pass designated "Fort Clinton" for the Mayor DeWitt Clinton and pushed to immediate completion* I t formed part of a system of defenses which included Fort Fish situated about 600 feet west of Fort Clinton, Nutter's Battery, north of Fort Clinton and northeast of Fort Fish and "Blockhouse No. 1", which stands to the west on the crest of the h i l l near the intersection of 109th Street and 7th Avenue. This last is s t i l l standing. * * C2NTRAL PARK FOR H3IIJA8E Friday, TEL. BSG2MT 4-1000 December 3 , 1943 The Department of P a r k s announces t h a t t h e c i t y f i n a l s of t h e New York Foundation F a l l S p o r t s Tournament i n r o l l e r hockey w i l l t a k e p l a c e Sunday, December 5 , 2:00 F.LI, a t C a r l Schurz P a r k , S a s t 88 S t r e e t and ISast End Avenue, Manhattan, and t h e "borough, f i n a l s i n touch f o o t b a l l on S a t u r d a y , December 4 , according to the following schedule: BROOKLYN; Red Hook Recreational Area, Henry & Lorraine Streets 2;00 P.M. ffilEMS; 'Victory Field, Myrtle Avenue & Woodhaven Boulevard 2500 P.M. HR0K2U Claremont Park, Webster Avenue & Claremont Parkway 2:00 P.M. RICHMQNB: Clove lakes, Victory Boulevard & Clove Road 2:00 P.M. The r o l l e r hockey championship will be decided by the boys of Jackson Heights Plajrground representing Queens versus the team from Carl Schurz Playground representing Manhattan. These contenders are the surviving teams from a series of 96 games, starting with the playground eliminations through d i s t r i c t , borough and semi-finals* The winners w i l l receive &10.00 in War Stamps, while the runners-flip will be awarded y5.Q0 in War Stamps. Valuable prizes w i l l be given the borough winners. These prizes were made possible by the generosity of the New York Foundation through the good offices of the Park Association of How York City, Inc, * * t OF PARKS AR33KAL, CI&TRAL PASS FOR K2L3A3S Friday, TSL. Rasara 4-1000 December ·£, 19*43 The Department of Parks announces that boxing, as a part of the general recreational physical fitness program is being conducted at seven park center's throughout the city» Instructions in the manly art are given by trained park personnel to a l l boys from 12 years and over, who register at one of these centers, A boy must at a l l times keep himself in good physical condition in order to be a good boxer. This in turn will encourage him to indulge in other sports and recrea- tional activities in order to attain that bodily strength and ability of coordina- tion necessary for boxing and so common in many sports* This will be the third year for the Park Department boxing program. The past year's program was very successful, with an exhibition conducted last winter in which 225 boys took part, the finals being staged at Lost Battalion Hall, QueensB This was followed by a competition in the Spring Sports Tournament in which 527 boys entered, the finals being held in an outdoor ring at MeCarren Park, Brooklyn. These events attracted an enthusiastic audience of 5000 people. All indications are for an increased interest in this form of recreation. All boys are invited to attend any of the following centers: Thomas Jefferson Play Center Tues, Co Thursday 7130-9:30 P.M. 3ast 111 St. & First Avenue Highbridge Play Center Tues. & Thursday 7:30-9 5 30 P.M. 173 Street & Amsterdam Avenue West 134 Street Gymnasium. Hon., Tues.., Wed., ) 4:00-6:00 P.M. 7:00-9:30 P.M. Thursday ) 4:00-6100 P.M. Saturday East 54 Street Gymnasium Monday, Wednesday ) 4:00-5:30 P.M. Friday ) 6:00-7:30 P.M. BROOKLYN; MeCarren Play Center Monday, Wednesday ) 7:30-9J30 P.M. Driggs Avenue & Lorimer Street Friday ) Jackson Heights Playground lionday Wednesday ) 7 1 30-9i30 P.M. 25-30 Avenues, 84th~85th Streets Friday BRONX t S t . M a r y ' s P a r k '.Jest Monday, Thursday 7:30-9:30 P.M. 146 S t . & S t . A n n ' s Avenue Friday * * * *f OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK ffOH R3LSAS Saturday1 TSL, mHUm 4-1000 November 27, 1943 n The Department of Parks announces the closing of ten municipal golf courses and the pitch putt course at Jacob Riis Park, at the close of play on Sunday, November 28» During the past season, more than 372,000 rounds were played over the ten courses, and approximately 11,-350 rounds were played on the pitch and putt course* The courses were open to the members of the armed forces free of charge and some 10,930 soldiers, sailors, marines, and members of the women's armed forces took advantage of these facilities. The Park Department also announces that through the winter months, it will not be necessary to have permits to play tennis on the hard surface courts operated by the department, but players must furnish their own tennis nets. * * * DEPARTMENT 01 PARKS ARSENAL, G3KTRAL PARK FOR R2L3AS3 Thursday. KoTOnlwr 1 8 1 9 4 3 ' Department of P a r k s announces t h a t t h e Board of Estimate a t i t s meet- ing on November 18, 1943 w i l l consider t h e a c q u i s i t i o n of t h e two blocks bounded by t h e Armory and West 143rd S t r e e t , Lenox Avenue, West 145th S t r e e t , and t h e Harlem River, f o r a p u b l i c playground, following t h e p o l i c y of t h e Board of Estimate and t h e Planning Conmission, t h e plan f o r t h e Harlem River Drive included r e c r e a t i o n a r e a s , promenades, e t c . , along i t s b o r d e r s . This i s t h e l a r g e s t of t h e play a r e a s so planned i n connection with t h i s p r o j e c t . This p r o p e r t y w i l l provide a new, v i t a l l y needed r e c r e a t i o n space t o serve a congested s e c t i o n of Harlem. The p r o j e c t has h e r e t o f o r e been approved by t h e Mayor, t h e Comptroller and t h e Borough P r e s i d e n t of Manhattan. *J,y(Originally planned in 1937Vehfis*playground-was scheduled f o r c o n s t r u c t i o n i n t h e l a t e f a l l of 1941, but was delayed because of t h e s c a r c i t y of l a b o r and materials which resulted in difficulty in securing approval for construction from the Ti'JPB. The plan hao be«n modified and the amount of materials requiring priorities greatly reduced. Substantially, a l l of the f a c i l i t i e s originally contemplated will be provided in spite of these modifications. At present the property i s occupied mostly by one-»story garages together with a few five and six-story tenements. Demolition and clearance of the site will start immnriintrl7|-nlftinr itoft-^TfflFiTTi li.iTrr'IT^1 HIM "111 j y Whon 4«afta3^»®d, the area will contain 9 basketball ceSurts, 9 volleyball courts, 18 handball courts, 8 horseshoe pitching courts and 4 softball diamonds with concrete bleachers for spectators, a comfort station and a large play area which can be flooded for ice skating when sub-freezing temperatures permit. There w i l l also be two completely equipped playgrounds, one for small children of pre-school age and the other for older children located on the lenox Avenue side of the area. The various units will be separated from each other by fencing so as to provide proper control of the operation. The entire development will be surrounded by planting areas with trees* ^ __. --Tlie playgrounds are scheduled for immediate construction and w i l l be com-j- aa&~4,B--»se before the end of the summer if a prompt decision i s made on the; o f ^eMing matters acquisition. * * * * DSpAKMENT OF PARKS FQR ARSENAL, CaWRAL PARE £\ m ^212^33 Saturday, TSU R3GMT 4-1000 G ^ J - \* November 13, 1943 The Department of Parks announces that the borough finals of the New York Foundation Fall Sports Tournament in r o l l e r hockey- w i l l take place on Saturday, November 13, and Sunday, November 14, according to the following schedule: QUEENS: Nov. 13 - V i c t o r y F i e l d , Woodhaven B l v d . , 2 P.M. and M y r t l e Avenue MANHATTAN! Nov. 14 - C a r l Schurz P a r k , E a s t 88 S t . 2 P.M. and 2 a s t End Avenue BROOKLYN* Nov. 14 ~ Red Hook R e c r e a t i o n A r e a , 2 P.M. Bay and Court S t r e e t s BSONXs Nov. 14 - M u l l a l y P l a y g r o u n d , Jerome A v e , , 11 A.M. and 165 Street During the past four weeks 90 teams have been keenly competing bofore a spectator audience totaling 3,000 people in the various park playgrounds throughout the city. The winning team from each borough will be awarded valuable borough prizes and be eligible to compete for the city-wide prizes of #10,00 in War Stamps, These prizes were made possible by the generosity of the New York Foundation through the good offices of the Park Association of New York City, Inc. * * * (W) § OF PARKS ARSMAL, CENTRAL PARK M FOR BELSAS3 Friday, T1SL. RJSJDM1 4-1000 November 5, 1943 The Park Department announces that the Annual Fall Indoor Chrysanthemum Show in the Prospect Park Greenhouse, Brooklyn, will opoa on Sunday, November 7, at 10 A.M, The Greenhouse is located at Prospect Park lest and Ninth Street, Brooklyn, and may he reached by way of the I.R.T. Subway, Grand Army Plaza Station; the Independent Subway, 7th Avenue Station and by the Vanderbilt and Smith Street car lines, Ninth Street stop; or by automobile direct to the Greenhouse by way of the East Drive in Prospect Park. The Exhibit will be open every day from-10 A.M, to 4 P.M. for three weeks and the Park Department extends a cordial invitation to view the display. More than four thousand pots of chrysanthemums will be on exhibition* The ground bed is laid out in groups of various formations with the popular large bloom varieties in all shades of pink, yelloij, red and bronze. Some of the attractive plants are the Pocketts, Turners, John S, Bush, Rise of Day and the Melba. Surrounding this feature of the display, banked on the sides of the Greenhouse are numerous smaller size chrysanthemums in 75 varieties, such as the Pompons, the Anemone and the Single Daisy type* In the class of varieties in all stiades of bronze, red, yellow and white, some of the outstanding chrysanthemums to be exhibited are the Crimson Red, Purple Queen, Red Rover, Orchid Beauty, Cleopatra and New York. * * * P r e s s photographers may t a k e p i c t u r e s on Friday, November 5 , between 1 and 4 P.M. t and Saturday, November 6, between 10 A.M. and 4 P.M. u OP PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR ^"STf.HlA,.1 Friday, TEjL. RJJJCSMT 4 - 1 0 0 0 November 5, 1943 The Department of Parks announces that the city-wide finals of the New York Foundation Fall Sports Tournament in volleyball w i l l take place on Saturday* November 6, at 2 P«M« at Roosevelt Playground, Chrystie and Forsyth Streets, Manhattan, and the borough finals in the r o l l e r skating events accord- ing to the following schedule: MANHATTAN* 105th Street and Riverside Drive 2 PiM* BROOKLYN^ Red Hook Recreational Areaj Kenry & lorraine Stsi 2 PiM, QpHERrS; V i c t o r y F i e l d , % r t l e Ave. & Woodhaven Boulevard 2 P.M. BRONX: · Claremont Park P l a y g r o u n d , E . 170 S t . & Clay Ave. 2 P.M.. RICEMQED; Jlahoney P l a y g r o u n d , Beechwood & C r e s c e n t Avenues .. 2 P.M, There are two divisions in volleyball, one for boys up to 16 years, and another for girls in the same age group. In the boys group, the children from Spofford AvojuaBPlayground representing the Bronx will vie with the boys of Heckscher Playground representing Brooklyn, while the championship in the g i r l s division will be decided by the g i r l s of Colonial Playground, Manhattan, versus McCarren of Brooklyn. A t o t a l of 12,000 spectators have witnessed 224 games throughout the course of the tournament* The roller skating events scheduled for boys and g i r l s , in the two age groups, 10-12 and 12-18 include the 30, 40, 60, 80, 100 and 220 yard run. City-wide f i n a l i s t s will be awarded $10#Q0 in War Stamps and the runners-up §5.00 in liax Stamps. Borough and d i s t r i c t winners will also receive valuable prizes. These prizes were made possible by the generosity of the New York Foundation through the good offices of the Park Association of Now York City, Inc. * * * IIS OF PARES ·t ARSENAL, C3NTRAL PARK FOR RSLI2AS3 Saturday,.. TaUiiBGBSJT 4-1000 October 30, 1943 The Department of Parks announces t h a t t h e city-wide f i n a l s of the New York Foundation F a l l Sports Tournament i n hand- b a l l w i l l t a k e p l a c e a t North Meadow, 97tli S t r e e t and Transverse Road, C e n t r a l P a r k , on Sunday, October 3 1 s t , a t 11 A»M, for j u n i o r boys, 1 P«M» for s e n i o r boys and 3 P.M. for s e n i o r girls* Championships w i l l be decided i n t h r e e d i v i s i o n s ; one f o r g i r l s between 16-18 y e a r s and for b o y s , 12-16 y e a r s and 16-18 y e a r s i These c o n t e s t a n t s a r e t h e winners in each of t h e f i v e boroughs i n i n t e r - p l a y g r o u n d , d i s t r i c t and borough e l i m i n a t i o n s . For t h e p a s t four weeks 2500 boys and g i r l s have taken p a r t in t h e s e competitions* The winners in each d i v i s i o n w i l l r e c e i v e f10»00 in War Stamps , while t h e runners-up w i l l b e awarded $5.00 in War Stamps. "Valuable p r i z e s have already been received by the d i s t r i c t and borough w i n n e r s . These p r i z e s were made p o s s i b l e by t h e g e n e r o s i t y of t h e New York Foundation through t h e good o f f i c e s of t h e Park A s s o c i a t i o n of Hew York C i t y , I n c . * * * Ill DSPARTIGMT OF TASKS ASSMAX, CENTRAL PARK FOR KZU1AS2 Saturday, TEL. R3JGMT 4-1OOO " O c t o b e r 30, 1943 . ?o) The Department of Parks announces the closing of the clay and hard surface tennis courts on Sunday night, October 31, 1943. After October 31 players who bring their own equipment, including netsr will be permitted to use the hard courts free of charge. During the 1943 season, 184,053 players took advantage of the 538 courts located in park areas throughout the five boroughs. * * * y ·t DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ' * ARSENAL, CMTRAL PARK FOR RSLmSE Friday. ; TEL* R3GENT 4-1000 October .22, 1943 TO TEE SPORTS EDITORS* The Department of P a r k s announces t h a t two h o l e s - i n - o n e were made on t h e 150 yard e l e v e n t h h o l e a t Van C o r t l a n d t Golf Course, The Bronx, on c o n s e c u t i v e d a y s . On Tuesday, October 19, Joseph Buck of 3452 C o r l e a r Avenue, The Bronx, made a h o l e - i n - o n e { h i s t h i r d ) w i t h a #6 i r o n . On Wednesday, October 20, C h a r l e s Boyce of 160 P a l i s a d e Avenue, Yonkers, made h i s f i r s t h o l e - i n - o n e u s i n g a § 5 i r o n . Telephoned t o A s s o c i a t e d P r e s s & Bronx Home News 2:15 P.M.; Sent t o Spofts W r i t e r s , Columnists & Golf E d i t o r s 10/22/43 * # OF PARKS "V J ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK " ^« FOR RELEASE Friday, fo TSL. RHJMT 4-1000 -fc^ October 22, 1943 Pix: 22722 volW^X 22723 ·*"* B u r s t i n g i n t o bloom when other flowers w i l l soon be k i l l e d by f r o s t two m i l l i o n Chrysanthemum blossoms of a new w i n t e r hardy v a r i e t y a r e now blooming i n New York C i t y ' s f i r s t annual outdoor Chrysanthemum d i s p l a y , t h e Department of Parks announced t o d a y . These flowers a r e now on view i n t h r e e park a r e a s i n New York C i t y : Bryant Park; t h e P l a z a a t F i f t h Avenue and 59th S t r e e t ; t h e C e n t r a l Park Conservatory Gardens a t F i f t h Avenue and 106th S t r e e t , and w i l l be p l a n t e d during t h e coming week i n R i v e r s i d e Park a t R i v e r s i d e Drive and 106th S t r e e t ; and Cadman P l a z a i n Brooklyn. These permanent p l a n t i n g s a r e t h e g i f t of Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, of New York C i t y , t o t h e Department of Parks i n memory of h e r Mother, and a r e known a s t h e Sara J . Woodard Memorial Chrysanthemum P l a n t i n g s . Mrs. Woodarft, . ?mo died i n New York C i t y , on January 8 , 1940, was one of t h e founders of two p u b l i c parks i n Watertown, Wisconsin, and a member of t h e Park A s s o c i a t i o n of New York C i t y , and t h e Outdoor C l e a n l i n e s s A s s o c i a t i o n . Rockefeller Center, i n cooperation with t h e Park Department's p r o j e c t f o r a l a t e Autumn outdoor flower d i s p l a y i n t h e C i t y , h a s purchased f i f t e e n hundred p l a n t s of t h e same v a r i e t y , and on Saturday, October 2 3 , t h e s e w i l l be massed i n c o l o r f u l d i s p l a y i n t h e p l a n t i n g a r e a s in Rockefeller Center from F i f t h Avenue t o Rockefeller Plaza. All of these plants are seedlings and cuttings from the Chicago strain of hardy Chrysanthemums developed by Dr. 3 . J . Kraus, Chairman of the Botany Department of the University of Chicago. Since 1935, Dr. Kraus has been working on the develop- ment of an early-blooming, winter-hardy Chrysanthemum whose flowers would withstand severe frost, and whose plant would withstand extreme sub-zero temperatures without any covering. After six years of experiment and research, twelve named varieties ·were introduced to the public in the Fall of 1941 as the Chicago strain of hardy Chrysanthemums. The current exhibition in New York City will be the f i r s t large- scale public exhibition of these plants to be seen anywhere in the East, They differ from other Chrysanthemums now on the market, chiefly in the wide range of colors from white through many shades of yellow, orange, clear rose pink and deep maroon. The flowers Tary from single to fully double, and the plants include a l l sizes from dwarf to more than three feet high and three feet in spread. I t is one 0 -a- of the few flowers that will bear up under heavy frost and the only plant having a wide range of color that is suitable in this section of the country for mass planting. These Chrysanthemums are easily grown, even under adverse conditions, and it is hoped that other communities, inspired by Eew York City's dramatic display, will make similar plantings in their own public parks and gardens* Dr. Kraus, stimulated by the desire to create a flower that could be used by the amateur gardener to extend the blooming period of a garden by as much as six weeks, began his experiments in the simplest possible manner· Ee used a common, hardy magenta flowered and a white flowered variety of Chrysanthemum* He also used a very early flowering strain received from the Municipal Park in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and a variety selected by Mr, F. L. Mulford, of the Bureau of Plant Indus- try in Washington, D. C., for its hardiness and early blooming character. Only flowers in a limited range of color and form resulted from these first crosses. To introduce additional color, particularly brilliant red, the Mars variety was ob- tained from Mr, Alex Cumuiings in 1936 and some additional double strains were used. Each year thereafter thousands of seedlings from these crosses were grown and fifty to one hundred outstanding individual plants were selected for further testing. The outstanding plants were saved for seed and propagated by means of cuttings. These cuttings were then sent for further test to the gardens of the U» S, Horticultural Stations in Belt svi lie, Maryland, and Cheyenne, Wyoming; to the Department of Agriculture Test Gardens at Beaver Lodge, Alberta, and to the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts. Elaborate records were kept and yearly reports were made as to the comparative merit and value of each individual variety. In the Fall of 1941, twelve varieties were selected and considered suffi- ciently reliable to be worthy of public introduction. They were named: Barbara Snail, Calendula, Flavita, Goldridge, Harbinger, H. J. Costello, Primula, Polar Ice, Redbank, Robert Brydon, Tussore, William Longland, and are now available to gar- . deners everywhere through nurserymen and commercial growers. Plants, grown in the greenhouses of the Department of Parks, from seeds and cuttings of these varieties, are now massed in myriad hues, making a carpet of bloom in the heart of New York City. These plantings are permanent ones and the gardens will flower annually from the second week of October through the first week of November, · * * * / DKPARTMMT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK TEL. REGENT 4-1000 FOR RELEASE Friday, October 22,f943~ The Department of Parks announces t h a t t h e borough f i n a l s of t h e New York Foundation F a l l Sports Tournament i n h a n d b a l l w i l l t a k e p l a c e on Saturday, October 2 3 , according t o t h e following schedule: MANHATTAN: North Meadow, 100th S t . & West Drive, J r . Boys 11:00 A.M. C e n t r a l Park Girls 1:00 P.M, Sr. Boys 3:00 P.M. BROOKLYN; Red Hook Recreational Area, Henry Jr. Boys 2*00 P.M. & Lorraine Streets Girls 2*00 P.M. Sr. Boys 3:00 P.M. QJJSENS: Victory Field, Myrtle Avenue, J r . Boys 2:00 P,M. Woodhaven Boulevard Girls 2*00 P.M. Sr. Boys 2:00 P.M* BRONX: Macombs Dam P a r k , E a s t 1 6 1 S t r e e t J r . Boys 2 : 0 0 P.M, & Ruppert Place Girls ' 11:00 A.M. Sr. Boys 3$00 P.M, RICHMOND; Mahoney Playground, Beechwood & Jr. Boys 2*00 P.M. Crescent Avenues, New Brighton Girls 3:00 P.M. Sr. Boys 5*00 P.M, During the past three weeks 2500 boys and girls have been playing in playground and inter-playground eliminations before ll r 600 spectators. This tournament, consisting of five events, volleyball, handball, roller hockey, roller skating and touch football for boys and g i r l s of the city between the ages of 10 - 18 is made possible by the New York Foundation, through the good offices of the Park Association of New York City.- Entries for touch football are s t i l l being accepted at any'park office or playground. Ten Dollars in War Stamps will be the prize for each of the city-wide winners. Other valuable prizes will be awarded borough and district winners, * * * * V "9EEAHIMEMT OF PMtKS ARSENAL, CMTRAL PARE l ITO RELEASE TUESDAY, TEL. R5£MT 4-1000 October 19, 1943 The Department of Parks announces t h a t t h e newly renovated and refurnished Tavern-On-The-Green in Central Park w i l l reopen Tuesday, October 19, 1943, as a public r e s t a u r a n t . This o r n a t e , picturesque b u i l d i n g , b u i l t i n 1870 i s located i n Central Park at Central Park West, between 66 and 67 S t r e e t s . It is easily reached by subway and bus and w i l l provide the public with a convenient place t o dine and dance in b e a u t i f u l surroundings removed from the h u s t l e and b u s t l e of t h e City yet a short distance from t h e h e a r t of Times Square. The decorative scheme i s in gay colors with mirrored w a l l s and nev? furnishings making t h e r e s t a u r a n t cheerful and modern. The dance floor has been enlarged with spacious room for dancing. The r e s t a u r a n t vrill be under t h e same management as the famous old Claremont Inn on Riverside Drive and the?/ have brought t h e i r e n t i r e s t a f f of capable personnel from t h e Inn which o p e r a t e s during the summer months only. A t t r a c t i o n s planned for the new Tavern-On-The-G-reen are outdoor dancing on t h e t e r r a c e during t h e summer months, a f t e r dinner s p e c i a l s of t a s t y snacks and s p e c i a l p r o v i s i o n s for people who enjoy t h e hansoms and broughams and wish to r i d e through the park t o t h e r e s t a u r a n t in Gay 9 0 f s s t y l e . A complete dinner w i l l be served a t $2.00,, also unusual a l a c a r t e items. The Tavern-0n-The~Green w i l l be open d a i l y from 5 P.M. and Sundays and h o l i d a y s from 1 P.M. Joe R i c a r d e l w i l l provide t h e music for dancing. * * * 7/3 OF PARKS ARSENAL, CMTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE Friday, TEL. RBG3NT 4-1000 October 1 5 , 1943 The Department of Parks announces t h e b i r t h of t h r e e l i o n cubs a t t h e Prospect Park Zoo, Brooklyn, on October 7» The f a t h e r of t h e t r i p l e t s which weighed l | - l b s . each a t b i r t h , i s Leo, and t h e mother, F a r i a n a . The mother and h e r cubs w i l l be on d i s p l a y in t h e l i o n house on Sunday, October 17 # * * * Press photographs can be taken on Friday, October 15. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSMAL, CENTRAL PARE FOR RELEASE Saturday TEL. SIESNT 4-1000 October 9, 1943 The Department of Parks announces a program of Magic and Music to be conducted on the Mall, Central Park, Sunday afternoon, October 10, at 2:30 P.M. The Magic show will be given by Peter Pan. the Magic Man and his troupe of Magicians, a group of children from the magic clubs, organized at the various park playgrounds throughout the city. This performance will be a climax to a series of 134 shows which provided entertainment for 50,000 children. A demonstration in hand puppetry ·will be given by Larry Klepper, a member of the troupe, who has on some occasions demonstrated this talent over W0R. Another performer who will add merriment to the afternoon will be Jo Jo, the Clown, who has received his training from Peter Pan. The music in the program will be furnished by the Children's Orchestra of the Department of Parks. It consists of twenty children from the various playgrounds, organized and conducted by a trained Park Department leader. Throughout the past season they have given several concerts in the big parks of the city. Program attached MftfilO MD MUSIC PROGRAM The Mall - C e n t r a l Park October 10, 1943 a t 2J30 P.M. 1» Opening - CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA - Star Spangled Banner Wizard March My Hero - Vocal Solo, S l o i s e Belloso J . Hood Wright Playground B a l l e t Music Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer E l Choclo God Bless America 2. P r i n c e s s Lenore - The Playground Magic Miss. 3. C h i l d r e n ' s Magic - P e t e r Pan the Park Magic Man. 4. Dark Eyes - Accordion Solo - Prances Marcus, J . Hood Wright Playground. 5. Hand Puppetry - Larry Iilepper, Highbridge Playground. 6 . . Hungarian Dance - Xylophone Solo - Arthur Knight, Dry Harbor Playground. 7* Jo Jo t h e Clown - Al Gosh, Roosevelt Playground, 8. Magic t o Music - Sonny I r e n s , 28th S t r e e t Gymnasium. 9. Scherzo - Accordion Solo - Frances Marcus, J . Hood Wright Playground, 10. Menta-Magic - I s r a e l Krenzel, Tompkins Square Park. 11. Smart Magic - Sol S t e i n , Mullaly Playground, 12. Closing - CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA - Triumphal March The Army Air Corps - Saxaphone Quartet - Solo I n t r o d u c t i o n t o Act 3 - Lohengrin Anchors Aweigh - Vocal Solo, S l o i s e Belloso, J . Hood Wright Playground Sunday, Monday and Always - Vocal Solo, Richard Macagna P i s t o l Packing Mama For Me and My Gal America * * * * * ·ff DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AESENAL, GW2RXL PARK FOR RELEASE Friday. R I O T 4-1000 p October 8, 194*3 V 5 The Department of Parks announces that, to date, over 6,610 boys and g i r l s , between the ages of 10 and 18, have entered the New York Foundation Fall Sports Tournament, Eliminations have already started with 1904 games in volley b a l l and handball contested in various playgrounds before a t o t a l spectator audience of 21,200 people. The tournament will run through October, November and December. Competitors may enter as many events as they desire. There is no entry fee. Entry blanks are available at a l l neighborhood parks and play- grounds. These should be filled out and forwarded to one of the borough offices listed below. Entry blanks are s t i l l being accepted for; Roller Hockey Closing date: October 15 Touch Football Closing date: November 1 #10.00 in War Stamps is the prize for city-wide winners. There . will also be valuable prizes for borough and district winners. These prizes were made possible by the generosity of the New York Foundation through the good offices of the Park Association of New York City, Inc. MANHATTAN; Mr. P. J . Cruise Arsenal Building 64 Street & Fifth Avenue, #21 BROOKLYN: Mr, R. C, Jenkins Litchfield Mansion Prospect Park West & Fifth Street, #15 QUEENS: Mr. J . J . Mallen The Overlook Union Turnpike & Park Lane Forest Park, Kew Gardens, #15 BRONXs M r , G e o r g e L* Q n i g l e y Bronx Park l a s t & B i r c h a l l Avenue, #10 RICHMOND: Mr, A, M, Anderson Clove Lakes Park 1150 Clove Road West New Brighton Staten Island 1, N. Y. j- * v ·/ f. J <=.«. ' v 'J · "* .% ·vV . DEPARTMENT OF PARKS W^ ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE Saturday. TEL. REGENT 4-1000 October 2, 1943 The Department of Parks announces that on Saturday, October 2, the ice and roller rinks of the New York City Building, Flushing Meadow Park, Queens, will open for the 1943-44 season*. The roller rink, 150 feet long and 116 feet wide, has been sanded for the new season and skaters will find the floor in ideal condition. The ice skating surface, 178 feet long and 116 feet wide, will be maintained in the same excellent condition as in previous years* Special programs for both the ice and roller rinks have been planned and patrons will find an interesting and diversified program for every evening session of the week. Music planned and played for skaters will be furnished again this year by Walter Litt at the console of the electric organ. There will be daily skating periods from 2i30 to 5:30 in the afternoon and from 7:30 to 11 in the evening* Admission charges remain the same as before, twenty cents for the afternoon sessions and forty cejits for the evening period* In addition to these sessions there will be the usual free period for youngsters under fourteen years of age every Saturday morning from 9:30 to 12 Noon. The admission price includes the use of roller skates and Federal tax. A charge of fifty cents is made for the rental of ice skates while shoe rollers can be rented for twenty- five cents* There is no charge for checking wearing apparel* On the skating floor there is a cafeteria where food and refreshments are sold at reasonable prices. The City Building can be reached conveniently from any point in the City. The following transportation lines are available: . IRT and BMT lines to 111th Street Station. Flushing Ridgewood Trolley to 52 Avenue, walk one block north to park. Independent Subway, local train "GGM to Grand Avenue, then Flushing Ridgewood Trolley to Horace Harding Boulevard and Grand Central Parkway* Walk north to park. Automobiles can enter the park and reach the City Building parking fields at the following gates: 111th Street and 54 Avenue and Roosevelt Avenue, east of Grand Central Parkway. *** ! J^ / D R A I T OF PARKS ARSMAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RELEA TEL. R3GJBOT 4 - 1 0 0 0 The Department of Parks announces the opening of a new playground at 225 Street and White Plains Road, the Bronx. This area is the second of nine park projects left in various stages of incompletion by the W.P.A. and being completed by contract to protect work already done, to be thrown open to the public. Substantially completed except for the comfort station this new one and a quarter acre playground site was acquired in 1941 by the City for school and recreational purposes. The Board of Education removed the old one and a half frame school annex adjacent to the playground and added a wing to the old two story brick building. The new playground will be used for both school and neighborhood recreation. It will be operated by the Board of Education during school hours and at all other times by the Department of Parks for community usage. A one-quarter acre parcel of the old school property located north of the new school wing has been included in the playground development. Sixteen one to three story brick and frame structures were removed by the W.P.A. in preparation for the new work. The Ir-shaped area is enclosed . and subdivided into five concrete surfaced rectangular units by chain link fen.ce. Gate controlled entrances connect the various units and provide access from the school grounds and adjacent streets. A court games area developed on the old school grounds contains a » combination volley ball and basketball court, three paddle tennis courts and two shuffleboard courts. Adjacent to this area is a wading pool and two handball courts. Two play areas containing the typical pieces of apparatus lie between the school house and a combination softball diamond and free play area. - 2- In 1934 there were 119 playgrounds in the five boroughs, 67 of which have been reconstructed. There will be, with this new addition, 488 playgrounds in the park system. · * * WOOD- LAWN CEM NEW PLAYGROUND IOROUGI BRONX V N MILES I 2 V** - o 30 O ?>>'.**gXgUl*vV«?.'»»'JtV>-*'>*'ig-V.*-Vt *.·.*·'·*.-··'.·.· ·'-·''·'f I! \ \ \ \ \ \ \ · \ · ^ \ N \ \ PUBLIC SCHOOL NO-21 CHILDREN S PLAY AREA v ^ BOROUGH OF THE BRONX 0 60 120 180 P40 DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RELEASS Thursday, , T E 1 . REGEHT 4 - 1 0 0 0 September 23, 1943 J /· t.- \ The Department of Parks announces a concert to be given by the Columbia University Band, on the Mall, Central Park, Friday, September 24, at 8;30 P.M. The band i s under the leadership of Harwood Simmons, Associate in Music at Columbia University. The program w i l l include marches, popular a i r s , folk songs and other selections from such well known com- posers as Ponchielli, Bizet, Schuman, Handel, Strauss, Zimmerman and R, V, Williams. * * * * (or · EffiAHEMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE Wednesday, TIL. REGENT 4-1000 September 22, 1943 6. (>J J , ·v The Department of Parks announces t h a t t h e f a l l h a r v e s t s a t t h e t e n Park Department C h i l d r e n ' s Gardens i n the f i v e boroughs a r e under way* On Thursday a f t e r n o o n , September 23, a t 3J30 P . M . , t h e Seward Park Gardens w i l l h o l d i t s h a r v e s t * Seward P a r k , a t East Broadway and Canal S t r e e t , i s on the lower East Side of t h e C i t y , a congested s e c t i o n where one i s n o t l i k e l y t o see v e g e t a b l e s growing. The crops t o be harvested by t h e children from their individual 4' x 8' plots are: corn, beans, carrots, Swiss chard, beets and kohlrabi. Other small plots were planted with flowers* The seeds, tools and instruction in gardening are furnished by the Department of Parks as part of i t s annual recreation program. Children from the garden club of the Educational Alliance will also participate in the harvesting of the crops* C/oQ ;, : ? J3EPJUfflfflT O^PAHKS' : ' ..RSENAL, CENTRAL PARK For Reloa SUNDAJ, TSL. REGENT 4-1OOO SEPTEMBER 19, 1943 The Department of Parks announces that the finals of the Second .Annual Harvest Dance Contest will be held on the Mall, Central Park, Monday evening, September 20, at 8:30 P.M. In the event of rain the contest will be held at the same location on the following night. During the past few weeks, preliminary contests were held in each of the five boroughs. These dance contests included entries in the Waltz, Fox Trot, Rhumba, Jitterbug and Waltz for Old Timers. All divisions attracted a large entry with the exception of the division for Old Timers of which each member of the dance team must be at least 60 years of age. There was keen spectator interest at all preliminaries and large groups came from various neighborhoods to support their local champions. These borough champions Trill now compete for the City-xfido Park Department Championship on Monday evening, September 20, 1943, A total of 66 couples have been entered for the finals and it is expected that a large audience will turn out to witness this terpsichorean contest. The judges will include the following outstanding authorities: Oscar Duryea, Director of Duryea Dancing Studios; Florence Doughty, Director of the Florence Doughty Dance Studios; Arthur Murray, Arthur Murray School of Dancing and Donald Sawyer, Director of the Sawyer Dance Studios. The Olympic Point Scoring System will be used in judging and the following factors will be included in the scoring: Posture and Appearance, Tempo and Rhythm, Proper Execution and Variety, There will be a contest for the best all round dancing team. A special feature contest will be the Championship of the Service Men's Division in which all branches of the service will be represented. The winners of all contests will receive War Bonds, The Name Band selected to play for the occasion will be Joe Marsala and his orchestra. Music will be amplified by «jMYC and will be broadcast from 9:30 until 10 P.M. Also present as invited guests and honorary judges will be Mayor LaGuardia, Park Commissioner Robert Moses, Major General T. A. Terry, U.S.A., Com- manding General, 2nd Service Command, Hon. Alfred 3. Smith, and Colonel Oscar H. Fogg, Chairman, Executive Committee, Consolidated Edison System Companies* This contest will bring to a close a series of 54 Name Band concerts and dances provided through the cooperation of the Consolidated Edison System Companiess It was estimated that one half million persons enjoyed these dances during the past summer, * * * 4 · * # OF PiiHKS ARS3NAL, CENTRAL PARE FOR ESL3ASS TEL. BMiMI 4-1OOO September 5, 1943 Tlie Department of Parks announces the following schedule of dances by the Consolidated Edison Name Band Orcliestras: September 6 - Jack Jenny at Leiv liriksson Playground, 8th Avenue and 66th Street, Brooklyn September 7 - Jerry Wald at Jewell Playground, Jewell Avenue and Utopia Parkway, Flushing, Queens Se-ptember 8 - Jerry Wald at Van Cortlandt Park, 342nd Street and Broadway, Bronx September 9 - Jerry Wald at The Mall, Central Park, Manhattan September 10 - Jerry Wald at Prospect Park, Brooklyn During the past month, elimination dance contests have been held for eligibility to compote in the final dance contest which will be held on the Mall, Central Park, September, 20th at 8:30 P.M. Valuable prizes will be awarded to the winners of the Fox Trot, Waltz, Rhuraba, Jitterbug and Waltz for Old Timers. * * * DSPAEOMMT OF .PARKS AHSMAL, CMTRAL PARK ?OR B3L3AS3 TEL. ESGMT 4-1000 September 5, 1943 IY)t The Department of Parks announces the l a s t of a s e r i e s of four Naimiburg Memorial concerts w i l l he given on the Mall, C e n t r a l Park, on Labor Day, September 6, a t 8; 15 P.M. Tliis concert s e r i e s i s contributed by Mr-. Waltei Naumburg and Mr. George W. Nauniburg, in memory of t l i e i r father Elkan Naumburg, who donated t h e bandstand on the Mall. This concert w i l l be given by t h e Naumburg o r c h e s t r a , with Eugene plotnikoff a s conductor, and William Home a s t h e tenor s o l o i s t . The program w i l l include various well known s e l e c t i o n s by Gomez, Dvorak, Brahms-Dvorak, Rimsky-Korsakoff, S t r a u s s , Berlin and Gershwin. * * f\- Form 26A-5M-73141 < ^ ^ > 1S5 DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK tO TEL, RESENT 4-1000 JL fj, Apparently the Associated Press has reported that I an coordinating a survey of postwar public works for the City of Portland, Oregon, and surrounding territory. The facts are as follows: The Kaiser interests at Portland, Oregon, asked me recently if I would recommend consulting engineers to make plans for postwar arterial and related improvements in and around Portland, Oregon. Mr. Edgar Kaiser told me that they expected serious unemployment after the war, and that they wanted to have a large public works program designed and ready for letting of contracts to employ people released from shipping and other war plants in the demobilization period. The -Governor O f Oregon, the Mayor of Portland and other public officials then discussed the matter and it was finally agreed that I would review and coordinate a study to be made by r " competent engineers whom I recommended and by attorneys who -will look into the possibility of self-liquidating projects. The City of Portland, County of Multnomah5 Port of ^ Portland, Dock Commission of Portland and other agencies are ·V paying for the survey which has already begun and will be com- pleted within sixty days.. Those recommended as consultants include people in private practice and in government service who will be OR,--'" leave for only a short time. ^^ They include: W= Earle Andrews, Consulting Engineer Gilmore D. Clarke, Consulting Engineer and > _-_-- -- Landscape Architect J. J. Darcy, District Engineer, New York State Department of Public Works Lewis L. Delafield, Jr., Attorney of the firm of Hawkins, Delafield and Longfellow James F. Evans, Director of State Pariis John C Evans, Chief Engineer, Port of New York Authority Shortridge Hardesty, Consulting Engineer of the firm of Waddell & Hardesty A. E . Howland, Chief Engineer, Long Island State Park Commission Richard V. Hyland, Consulting Engineer of the firm of Madigan-Hyland Raymond P. McKulty, Attorney of the firm of Corner, Bell, Russell & McNulty ^ Sidney Shapiro, Deputy Chief Engineer of the ~~ Long Island State park Commission George E . Spargo, Executive Officer of the New York City Department of Parks Harry Taylor, Assistant General Manager of the Triborough Bridge Authority DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AR5IKAL, CENTRAL PARK ^ OPESLEASS TEL. REGENT 4 - 1 0 0 0 AUGUST 29, 1943 |o The Department of Parks announces a Harvest Dance Contest for novice dance teams, open to all novice dancers wlio are at least 16 years of age, and a special division for ne:a of the Armed. Forces. The five divisions will tie the Fox Trot, the Waltz, the Hhuiaba, Jitterbug, and Waltz for Old Timers. In the Waltz for Old Timers, the age of each team member must be at least 60 years, but the agoc of the individuals will not be published. Entries are being received at the five borough offices of the Park Department, particularly from those dance areas that have enjoyed the city-wide program of social dancing, which the Department of Parks'has been conducting in the parks of the five boroughs all summer. Park Department Borough Offices: MANHATTAN - Arsenal Bxiilding, 64 Street & Fifth Avenue BROOKLYN - Litclifield Mansion, Prospect Park BRONX - Bronx Park East & Birchall Avenue QUEENS - The Overlook, Kew Gardens, Forest Park RICHMOND - Clove Lakes, New Brighton, Staten Island No change of partners will be permitted afte-r an application is filed. Acrobatic, stunt, and trick novelty dances will be barred. War Bonds and other valuable prizes will be awarded the city-wide champions. Borough winners will also be given handsome awards, donated by the Consolidated Edison System Companies. No contestant may win more than two War Bonds. The following are the dates and locations of the elimination contests in the respective boroughs: QUEENS - Playground at 30 Road and 45 Street Tuesday, August 31 BRONX - Poe Park, 132 Street and Grand Concourse- Wednesday, Sept. 1 MANHATTAN - The Mall, Central Park Thursday, Sept. 2 RICHMOND - McDonald Playground, West Brighton Thursday, Sept. 2 BROOKLYN - Prospect Park New Bandshell - - Friday, Sept. 3 The winners in the borough eliminations will be eligible to compete in the finals that are to be held on the Mall, Central Park, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1943. Music for both the preliminaries and the finals will be provided by Name Band Orchestras under the sponsorship of the Consolidated Edison System Companies. a60 I I D2PMTMENT OF PARES ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE TEL. REGENT 4-1000 August 27, 1943 The Department of Parks announces that the city-wide finals of the checkers tournament will talc© place on Saturday, August 28, 2:00 P.M., at Heckscher Playground, Central Park, to be followed by the chess finals on Sunday, August 29, at the same location and the same hour. The junior group consists of boys and g i r l s , who have not reached their 17th birthday, while the senior group are those 17 years and over. Each borough has been conducting preliminary matches in each of these divisions for the past three weeks to determine i t s two best players for the city-wide finals. Gold and silver pins will be awarded to the f i r s t and second place winners in each division at the finals. Bronze pins will be given to borough winners. * * * C/c5) & & · DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE ^ TEL. REGENT 4-1000 AUGUST 26,1943 The Department of P a r k s announces t h e c i t y f i n a l s of t h e Jacks Contest f o r g i r l s w i l l "he played a t Ileckscher Playground, C e n t r a l Park, on Thursday, August 26, a t 2:00 P.M. The f i n a l i s t s w i l l be chosen from two d i v i s i o n s . The f i r s t is the Midget division for girls up through nine years of age. The second group are girls from 10 to 15 years of age. Eliminations have been taking place during the past few weeks in the playgrounds throughout the five boroughs. The best player in each division of the five boroughs will compete on Thursday for the t i t l e of City Champion. Gold pins will be awarded to the- finalists in each division, and silver pins to the runner-up. Bronze pins will be awarded to the borough winners. * * * · · OF PAEKS ASSMAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE T3L. SSaMT 4-1000 August 24, 1943 The Department of Parka announces t h a t t h e city-wide f i n a l s in t h e M i l i t a r y and t h e Kovice Events in t h e Park Association, of Hew York City Fourth Annual Sports Tournament, w i l l take place on Tuesday, August 24, and Wednesday, August 25, at Astoria P o o l , 19 S t r e e t and 23 Drive, Queens, a t 6:30 p.Ivl. The novice competitions w i l l include 13 d i f f e r e n t events f o r children of various ages up t c 17 y e a r s . T r i a l h e a t s in these events were conducted at 16 of t . . e park pools in the various borourdis beginning on J u l y 14 and ending on August 1 1 . The c o n t e s t a n t s , who w i l l meet a t Astoria Pool on t h e 24th, a r e t h e -dinners of t h e 3,386 boys anci g i r l s , who entered these m e e t s . The m i l i t a r y competitions a r e divided i n t o four e v e n t s . They are t h e 100 meters free s t y l e , 50 meters back s t r o k e , 50 meters b r e a s t stroke and d i v i n g . Medals, donated by t h e Park Association of Hew York C i t y , w i l l be awarded t h e winners for 1,2, and 3rd p l a c e s . Those championships w i l l bring t o a close t h e Park Association of Nov.! York City Fourth Annual Tournament. At t h e conclusion of t h e swimming e v e n t s , awards c o n s i s t i n g of t r o p h i e s , War Bonds and War Stamps w i l l be presented t o t h e winners of t h e Municipal Golf and Tennis Cham- pionships. I n a d d i t i o n , medals w i l l be presented t o t h e winners of t h e l o c a l tournaments in t o n n i s and t h a novice winners of t h e various pool eliminations. · > / DEPARTMENT OF PARKS A&SMAL, CEHTBAI PARK FOR RELEASE T3L. H2GENT 4-1000 Xuguat 22, 1943 The Department of Parks announces t h e schedule of 7 more Name Band Orchestras which w i l l play in v a r i o u s large parks and playgrounds of tli3 c i t y during the period of August 25-31, as p a r t of t h e second Consolidated Edison. Company Summer Concert and Dance Program in coopera- t i o n w i t h the Department of P a r k s . A l l dances w i l l s t a r t at 8:30 P.M. Such popular o r c h e s t r a s as Cab Calloiray, Bobbie Sherwood, W i l l i e IParner and Joe Yenuti are included in t h i s p e r i o d . Following i s the schedule of appearances: August 23 - Bobbie Sherwood a t Colonial P a r k , Bradiiurst Avenue and 153 S t r e e t , Manhattan August 24 - Bobbie Sherwood at Marconi Playground, 155 S t r e e t and 108 Avenue, Jamaica, Q,ueens August 25 - Bobbie Sherwood at Poe P a r k , 192 S t r e e t and Grand Concourse, The Bronx August 26 - Cab Calloway a t t h e M a l l , C e n t r a l P a r k , Llanliattan August 27 - "tfillie lorm&T at Prospect P a r k , Brooklyn August 30 - Joe Tenuti a t Bushvrick Playground, Eaiclcerbocker and Putnam. Avenues, Brooklyn August 31 - Joe Yenuti a t Flayground, 30 l:ioad and 45 S t r e e t , Queens Tlis schedule of other Name Bands in t h i s s e r i e s v a i l be announced as soon as t h e necessary arrangements have been completed. * * V 4 DEEAETMMT OF PARKS AR3SKAL, CMTHAl PARE FOR TEL. R3GMIT 4-1OOO August 20,1943 3 The Department of Parks announces t h a t the city-wide f i n a l s of the horseshoe pitching tournament, singles and doubles for "boys and men, 17 years of age and over, w i l l take place at Eeckscher Playground, 62 Street and West Drive, Central Park, on Saturday, August 21, at 2:00 P.M. Several hundred have p a r t i c i p a t e d in the p r e l i m i n a r i e s , conducted at the 480 horseshoe pitching courts of the Park Department, throughout the five boroughs, during t h e past three weeks. l i v e doubles teams and five singles p l a y e r s , a l l of them winners of t h e i r respective borough contests w i l l compete for- the city-wide championship on Saturday afternoon. Handsame trophies w i l l be awarded the city champion in each d i v i s i o n . * · * W AH3EKAL, CENTHAL PARK · ·· · fl^W FOR 'R f TEL. REGMT 4-1000 W 9 ^ 0 """ August" Tli9 Department of Parks announces that 1100 g i r l s ranging in age from 8 to 16 years and representing various playgrounds throughout ths borough of Brooklyn, will participate in the 28th Annual Dance Festival on Saturday, august 21, at 2 F.M., on the Long Meadow, Prospect Park,'Brooklyn. For the past seven weeks, the children have attended regularly the various instruction classes in designated playgrounds, where they have been taught the intricate dance steps, which require grace and rhythm in coordination to bring about that precision in execution so necessary in group dancing. They have also been instructed in making their costumes for these dances. This year's festival program will consist of nine dance numbers and music by the Coast Guard Band, under the leadership of Tom KcLaury. On the day of ths festival, Long Meadow will be a kaleidoscope of colors, wttlL.United Hations folk costumes mingling with the outfits of miniature soldiers, sailors, marines and war workers* The program on the ileadow will open with the singing of the "Star Spangled Banner" by the children and the spectators. At the close of the dance program, the costumed children will parade to the Picnic Grounds for refreshments. The Department of Parks extends a cordial welcome to the general public to witness this annual affair. The dances to be presented are: 1. "Marines" Children from Sunset Playground 2. "Sailors" Children from Bay Ridge Playgrounds 3. "Soldiers" Children from Boro Eall Playgrounds 4. "Swing Shift" Children from Greenpoint Playgrounds 5. "Chinese Dance" Children from Bushwick Playgrounds 6. "English Dance" Children from itfiiliamsbuxg Playgrounds 7. "Russian Dance" Children from Flatbush Playgrounds 3. "Salute to the Services" Children from Bensonhurst Playgrounds 9. "All American" Children from Brownsville Playgrounds is.. ^J^ AR53KAL, C TSL. R2GHKT 4-1000 AUGUST 18,1943 4 nx £ / f £ 14 The Park Department lias beer, receiving many telephone calls a day from the public for the past 10 days, asking for help in the elimination of caterpillars which are destroying trees in their backyards. Investigation shows the caterpillar is larvae of the Fall Web ¥orm, scientifically known as the Eyphantria Cunea. The infestation is the heaviest for the past five years. The moths whicl' vary considerably in color from the -pure white to a white spotted *.'ith black, appear in July and lay thsix clusters of yellowish e^gs on the underside of the leaves, ^s the larvae feed, they spin silken webs of light texture, -jhich later on become of great size and very unsightly. At the present time, the larvae are full ~rown and within a weak enter into the ground to pupate and hibernate. If the trees in the backyards had been sprayed in the middle of July, and again two weeks later, these insects could have been controlled. However, where trees have not been entirely defoliated spraying would help eradicate the pest and save the foliage. The spray solution recomraended is 5 pounds of Arsenate of Lead to 100 gallons of water. Hhere very sciall trees are to be sprayed, 1 tablespoon,of Arsenate of Lead to a gallon of -/rater is r e c oiamen ded. The Park Department cannot do work on private property. * ** OF PARKS | ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK ^ FOR j* T31. HEGENT 4-1OOO · August 18, 1843 P l a n s : XL 135-106 F i x : 22527 Del, 8/17/43 XL 135-107 22528 22529 22530 The Department of Paries announces the completion and opening of a now playground at 234 Street and Bailey Avenue, The Bronx. 'This area is one of nine park projects left in various stages of iiicompletion by the W.P.A. and which are being completed by contract to protect work already done. About 90$ completed by tke.W.P.A., the three acre playground located west of the New York Central Putnam Division was originally acquired for school purposes in 19BS and was assigned in 1941 to the Department of Parks. The playground is enclosed by eight foot chain link fence with two entrances from West 234 Street. The south half of the park is sub-divided into four units by tree planted block paved malls. The general play surface is of concrete. The wading pool and comfort station area is flanked by two narrow units of play apparatus for preschool and older children. The slides and seesaws in the preschool section are supplemented with a sandpit said swings. A pipe frame exercise unit, swings and slides have also been provided. The court games area contains three handball courts and three bocci courts. The north half of the park separated from the apparatus and pool area by an eight foot chain link fence is paved with concrete and laid out with a softball diamond and hooded backstop. The area may also be used for roller skating and free play. The contract not only included the installation of the play equipment but also provided for the completion of the comfort station, laying granite blocks, erection of a flagpole, construction of a concrete retaining wall, erection of a chain link fence and the planting of shade trees. In 1934 there were 119 playgrounds in the five boroughs, 67 of which have been reconstructed. There will be with this new addition 438 playgrounds in the -oark system, * * 114 MEMORANDUM DEPARTMENT OF PARKS Date August 16, 1943 FROM: Mr. Heaslip L- j Prepare reply for my signature m <**"· Prepare reply for signature of y Reply direct See me on attached Give me memorandum on attached Send copy to For your approval For your disposition For your information Note and send to General Files REMARKS DEAFT DEPARTMENT Of PARKS ARSENAL, CBSTRAL PARK J T OR RELEASE U)«J A ,, TEL. REGENT 4-1000 The Department of Parks announces t h e completion and opening of a new playground at 234 Street and Bailey Avenue, The Bronx* This area i s one of nine park p r o j e c t s l e f t i n various s t a g e s o f incompletion by t h e W.P.A. and which are being completed by contract t o protect work already done* About 90$ completed by the W.P.A., t h e three acre playground located west of t h e New York Central Putnam D i v i s i o n was o r i g i n a l l y acquired f o r school purposes i n 1929 and was assigned i n 1941 t o the Department of Parks* The playground i s enclosed by e i g h t foot chain l i n k fence with two entrances from West 234 S t r e e t . The south h a l f of the park i s sub-divided into four u n i t s by t r e e planted block paved malls* The general play surface i s o f concrete. The wading pool and comfort s t a t i o n area i s flanked by two narrow u n i t s of play apparatus f o r preschool and older children* The s l i d e s and seesaws i n t h e preschool s e c t i o n are supplemented with a sandpit and swings* A pipe frame e x e r c i s e u n i t , swings and s l i d e s have a l s o been p r o - vided* The court games area contains three handball courts and three bocei courts* The north half of the park separated from the apparatus and pool area by^ftn eight foot chain link fence i s paved with concrete and laid out with a Softball diamond and hooded backstop. The area say also be used for roller skating and free play. The contract not only included the installation of the play equip- ment but also provided for the completion of the comfort station, laying (MDBS) V -s- granite blocks, erection of a flagpole, construction of a concrete retaining wall, erection of a chain link fence and the planting of shade trees* In 1934 there were 119 playgrounds in the five "boroughs, 67 of which have been reconstructed. There will be with this new addition _ j t -- a o~ playgrounds in the park system* * * * Form 13-10M-103042 MEMORANDUM EPARTMENT OF PARKS CITY OF NEW YORK George Ej/Spario^--"~ August 11, 1943 // Chirlian SUBJECT: Playground - 234-th Street and Bailey Avenue - Bronx An inspection was held at this playground today, at which Quigley was also present. There are several minor clean-up and adjustment items to be done which the Contractor will complete by Friday, the 13th. Quigley is making arrangements to open the play- ground area to the public on Saturday, August 14th. Work in the comfort station should be completed in about one week from this date. \w~-~XA**. c-. gineer of Construction H-- ST 0? PARKS ARSEKAL, CMTRAL PAHK iSLSASS Tuesday, ,, TEL. RWrWH! 4-1000 August 17,1943 3 Tlae Department of Parks announces the birth of a baby llama at the Central Pari: Zoo, HarLhattan, on August 16, 1943. The father of the baby llama i s "Racket" and the mother "Blackie". The father was born in the Central Park Zoo, August 5, 1934. The mother now nine years old, was acquired in July 1933. Photographs may be taken at any time. * * * DEPAROMMT OF PARKS 4fc 'jtL " "P ESI EASS AHSMAL, C ENTRALP ARK f^ W* ' _ TEL. RBGffiT 4-1000 A ' ·-- <~ I J. August 16,1943 PI 81 The Department of Parks announces that the city-wide f i n a l s in the A.A.TJ. and Municipal Swimming Events in the Park Association of New York City Fourth Annual Sports Tournament will take place on Tuesday, August 17, and Wednesday, August 18, at Astoria Pool, 19 Street'and 23 Drive, Queens, at 6i30 P.M. In the A.A.U. competitions for men, ; the New York State Championships w i l l be decided in the 100 meter free style, 100 meter hack stroke, 200 raster breast stroke, springboard diving and the pentathlon. In the women's division the contestants will contend for the Senior Metro- politan Championships in the 100 mete:: free s t y l e , 100 meter back stroke, 200 meter breast stroke, 300 meter- medley relay, 400 meter free style relay, springboard diving and the pentathlon. The pentathlon events for both divisions are as follows, 100 meter free style, 100 meter back stroke, 100 meter breast stroke, 150 meter medley, spring- board diving, 3 meter board, 3 optionals. In the Metropolitan Championships for Women foremost among the entries i s Florence Schmitt, who within recent months reached the age of 12 and has garnered such t i t l e s as Junior Metropolitan quarter mile, Junior National 220, Junior National long distance and on August 7, the Senior National long distance of 3 miles. She i s prepared to compote in the 100 meter free s t y l e , back stroke and the pentathlon. Anne Ross, representing the Dragon Club of Brooklyn, the Women's National 1 mater and 3 meter outdoor diving champion and holder of the New York State crown w i l l be present to defend her t i t l e . The 100 meter free style will have Marilyn Sahner, representing the W.S.A. as defending champion meeting such contenders as Marie Corridon, Phoebe Rosen, Kathryn Wernert and June Dooling. Mike Priano, U.S. Navy Preflight School, Troy, New York, National-long distance champion, winner of the National 300 meter medley relay, w i l l defend h i s t i t l e in the pentathlon. One of the serious contenders for t h i s t i t l e w i l l be Eugene Rogers, the New York State senior 400 meter free style champion, representing the New York Athletic Club. Two more representatives of the New York Athletic Club w i l l defend their t i t l e s ; Jack Saith, New York State 3 meter diving champion and Floyd Aglieppi, New York State back stroke champion. The Municipal Employees champions, Father Knickerbocker's f i r e - e a t e r s are expected t o repeat last y e a r ' s performance. ., There will be no admission charge and thg"public i s cordially welcome. 0 -c Medals, donated by the New York 'CJj^Pa^k- Association, w i l l be awarded the winners for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. \ '^\i/i«^ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS' ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE Saturday, T TEL. REGENT 4-1000 . B ^ - v ^JJ-, gv^ , - ^ - ^ , August 14,1943 .r The Department of Parks announces t h a t t h e c i t y - w i d e semi- f i n a l s and f i n a l s in t h e Municipal Tennis Championships of t h e Park Association of New York City Fourth Annual Sports Tournament w i l l take > place on S a t u r d a y , August 14, and Sunday, August 15, a t Central P a r k , 93 S t r e e t and West Drive, Manhattan, a t 11 A.M. The q u a r t e r f i n a l i s t s in each d i v i s i o n from t h e f i v e boroughs have been engaged i n keenly contested matches a t t h e C e n t r a l P a r k Courts. The c o n t e s t a n t s who have survived t h e s e games a r e those who w i l l meet in the semi-finals and finals. The women*s singles division will be strictly a family affair. Natasha Irwin, a former winner, will vie for top honors with her own pupil and daughter, Nina Irwin. This engagement will take place Saturday, August 14, at 2 P.M. Both have been paired for the women's doubles as a serious threat to Ingrid Lakatos and Grace Rothbsrg. Among the contestants for the men's singles t i t l e is Teddy Schein, winner of last year's borough of Manhattan t i t l e and member of the U.S. Army. One of the most difficult hurdles will be Phil Rubel of Brooklyn, an outstanding contender in past tournaments. The men's doubles assumes the same complexion as last year. Teddy Schein, a member of last year's winning city-wide doubles, paired with Ralph Axelrod, a quarter finalist in the past 2 city-wide tournaments, will find strenuous competition in Randy Rothstein and Bernard Levy, second place t i t l i s t s of last year. * * * 90. # DEPARTMMT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CMTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE Saturday, . TEL. REGENT 4-1000 "August 14, 1943 0 \ S The Department of Parks announces the birth of a buffalo and an Asiatic deer in the Prospect Park Zoo, Brooklyn, on August 11, 1943. The father of the female buffalo calf is "Nickel" and the mother TNickelette", both of whom were born in the Central Park Zoo in 1937 and transferred to the Prospect Park Zoo in 1938. The father and the mother of the Asiatic fawn are unnamed members of a herd donated to the Zoo in 1941» Photographs may be taken at any time. * * * ·# DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSMAL, OJKTRAL PAEK FOH RELBAS3 Wednesday, TSL. RB3ENT 4 - 1 0 0 0 I A] A "August 11,1943 Tlie Department of Parks announces the schedule of 8 more Name Band Orchestras which will play in various large parks and playgrounds of the city during the period of August 11 to 20, as part of ths second Consolidated ISdison Company Summer Concert and Dance Program, in cooperation with the Department of Parks, At the completion of t h i s group there w i l l he 17 more dance concerts, remaining out of a t o t a l of 54, which began on July 1. Such popular orchestras as Shep Fields, Cootie Williams, Will Osborne and Gracie Barrie are included in t h i s period. Following i s the schedule of appearances: August 11 - Cootie Williams at Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx 242 Street and Broadway(Termis Courts) August 12 - Will Osborne at The l<-all, Central Park, Manhattan August 13 - Will Osbonie at Prospect Park, Brooklyn August 16 - Shep Fields at Broadway and 70 Street, Jackson Heights, Queens August 17 - Gracie Barrie at Marconi Playground, 155 Street and 108 Avenue, Jamaica August 18 - Gracie Barrie at Poe Park, 1S2 St. & Grand Concourse, Bronx August 19 - Gracie Larrie at The Mall, Central Park, Manhattan August 20 - Gracie Barrie at Prospect Park, Brooklyn ' The schedule of other Eamo Bands in t h i s series will be announced as soon as the necessary arrangements have been completed. . * * · · f DEPARTMENT 0 ? PARKS ARSB3AL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE Tuesday. ° TEL. REGENT 4 - 1 0 0 0 AugUSt 1 0 , 1943 The two final concerts sponsored by the Associate Committee of the League of Composers in cooperation with the Department of Parks will be held on the Mall, Central Park, on Tuesday, August 10, and in the Music Grove, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, on Wednesday, August U . Both concerts will begin at 8:30 P.M. The youthful orchestra of the National Orchestral Association, under the direction of Leon Barzin, will appear together with a chorus and three young soloists, Rodolfo Cornejot Carol Brice, and Frances Magnes, Mr. Cornejo will play the piano part of his own "Phillipine Rhapsody #2" for piano and orchestra. Frances Magnes, violinist, will present the Bruch Violin Concerto, while Carol Brice, contralto, will perform with the chorus and orchestra in the first perfonaan.ee on the east coast of Douglas Moore's setting of the "Prayer for the United Nations" which was written by Stephen Vincent Benet for President Roosevelt. To date, 30,000 people have enjoyed these performances. * * * * * DHPAKEMBHT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CMTRAL PARK F0R T I L . HEGBNT 4 - 1 0 0 0 August 7, 1943 The Department of Parks announces that the city-wide finals in the Municipal Golf Championship for women and junior, boys of the Park Association of New York City Fourth Annual Sports Tour- nament will start on Sunday, August 8, at Dyker Beach Golf Course, 86 Street and 7 Avenue, Brooklyn, at 9 A.M. Ten of the women taking part in t h i s tournament are the champions from the ten Municipal Courses and the other ten are their runners-up as a result of an 18 holes of Medal play held on July 11 on a l l park golf courses. "Tex" Fullen, winner from Split Rock and second place city-wide winner of 1942 will be hard pressed by "Pat" Shanahan of Mosholu Golf Course, a city-wide winner of 1940-41. A third contender of no mean a b i l i t y will be Annette Reyle, Municipal Champion of 1937-38-39. In the junior boys' division, Marvin Goldenberg of Forest Park, holder of Sad place in the city-wide finals of 1942 i s the leading contender. Although most of the remaining contestants are newcomers to these championships, keen competition i s expected on the basis of t h e i r showing in Medal plays, conducted on a l l park courses, July 19. Valuable prizes, donated by the Park Association of New York City, will be awarded the winner and runner-up in each division. * * * 0 DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ,, ,, rvmr,Am ,, , . ifflWHW* C E M i m PARK FOR RELEASE ^dnesday TEL. \%hm 4-iuoo ^ 3 wv.^. m ^ ^ t * f ff f ^ So-*** , I suppose there has to be a lunatic fringe attached to eTery public body, a few scheming fanatics who are eager to get publicity and not much concerned about contributing anything to the public good. At yesterday's meeting of the Council this fringe was busy shouting about the lack of play f a c i l i t i e s in Harlem and blaming the riot on the indifference of the Administration to the recreation needs of Harlem. The fact is that Harlem has not been overlooked, neglected or discriminated against. The tendency has been in just the opposite direction, that i s , trends giiring more attention t o Harlem than to other sections which are in just as great need of recreation, including other sections into which colored people in large numbers have moved, creating unexpected problems of overcrowding. Harlem had 9 playgrounds before the LaGuardia Adminis- tration came into being in 1934. Today i t has 29. We have completely reconstructed areas previously grossly neglected, such as Colonial Park. Colonial Park was laid out by the same landscape architects who made the plans for Central park in the last century. I t was a kind of country estate and was beaten to pieces by the influx of tenement dwellers. This area was completely reconstructed by us. I t has, among other things, one of the finest swimming pools to be found anywhere in the country. I t has playgrounds for a l l ages and a music shell and dance area. When Harlem Houses were established, responsibility for pro- viding recreation fell on the-Park Department. We not only provided a play area along the River, but we obtained the use of the Board of Trans- portation property to the south and developed this into another playground. # For several years no school plans have been made without provisions for additional play space. At the insistence of the Park Department an entire block front on Fifth Avenue was bought to round out an inadequate school playground. In the two additional postwar public housing projects in Harlem, to which I have personally devoted an immense amount of attention, adequate play facilities are provided and several playgrounds, including a large active play and sports arena, are included in the plans for the Harlem River Drive. There is just one reason why the new playgrounds in the housing development and along the Harlem River Drive are not completed and in use, and that is the war, which resulted in priorities and a stoppage of all construction. Certainly this cannot be blamed on the Administration, the City Planning Commission or the Park Department. When the Triborough Bridge was built, I insisted on provision of playgrounds along the approaches and the conversion of the whole of Randall's Island into a park easily accessible to the residents of Harlem. We did succeed in getting priorities for one very important recreation project, which is of great value to Harlem, and that is the reconstruction of the whole of the northeast end of Central Park. This was another area which could not be maintained and policed under present conditions and which had to be reconstructed so as to provide more active play facilities, less landscaping and a more formal design which would lend itself better to control and preservation of order. This work was begun as a 1PA project. When the TfJPA was withdrawn, funds and priorities were obtained to finish the work by contract. It is true that this work pro- ceeds slowly because the contractor also is handicapped by war conditions, but it is just tripe to say that this or any other matter of recreation # affecting Harlem has been neglected, and only irresponsible demagogues would make such an assertion. Unlike these demagogues and loose talkers, I have no patent solution for the problems of this area. I believe in plugging along from day to day with possible improvements, with patience and under- standing, and with a realization that those who shout for the millennium, agitate, exaggerate grievances and make promises ·which cannot be kept, are at bottom responsible for the kind of trouble illustrated by the recent Harlem riot. The Greeks were not so dumb when they invented the system of ostracism. Maybe we could get rid of some of our phonies under the Lend-Lease Act. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS $ # ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE Wednesday T TSL. REGENT 4-1000 3>e& "August 4, 1943 The Department of Parks announces that after careful study of the usage of Rockaway bathing beaches and because of the heavy demand for surf casting, additional areas have been set aside at Bay 1, Jacob Riis Park and Beach 82, 109 and 149 Streets, Rockaway Beach, -Queens. A complete list of fishing areas, their season and hours of operation,. is as follows: J Cross Bay Boulevard Bridge - daylight hours, all year *Rockaway Beach, Beach 17 to Beach 19 Streets - dawn to 8 A.M. *Rockaway Beach, Beach 19 to Beach 25 Streets - daylight hours *Rockaway Beach, Beach 23 to Beach 73 Streets - d a m to 8 A.M. *Rockaway Beach, Beach 82 Street - 6 P.M. to dark *Rockaway Beach, Beach 109 Street - 6 P.M. to dark *Rockaway Beach, Beach 126 to Beach 149 Streets - dawn to 8 A.M. *Rockaway Beach, Beach 149 Street - 6 P.M. to dark *Jacob Riis Park, Bay 1 - 6 P.M. to dark *Jacob Riis Park, Bay 13 - dawn to 8 A.M. Jacob Riis Park, North Shore - daylight hours, all year Francis Lewis Park, East River & 147 Street - daylight hours, all year Little Keek Bay, along shors of Belt Parkway - daylight hours, all year Flushing Bay, along shore of Grand Central Parkway - daylight hours, all year RICHMOND "^Wolfe's Pond Beach - October to May, daylight hours *South Beach - October to May, daylight hours MANHATTAB Southwest corner of Randall's Island - daylight hours, a l l year 107 Street Pier, Harlem River - daylight hours, a l l year Hudson River at 83 Street - daylight hours, a l l year Hudson River at 92 Street - daylight hours, a l l year Hudson River at 106 Street - daylight hours, a l l year Hudson River, foot of 177 Street - daylight hours, a l l year Hudson River, 100 feet north of Dyckman Street - daylight hours, a l l year Hudson River, north of Dyckman Street Ball Fields - daylight hours, a l l year BRONX ' Twin Island, Pelham Bay Park - daylight hours, all year Talapoosa Point, Pelham Bay Park - daylight hours, all year Hortn of old Hunter Island Bridge, Pelhaa Bay Park - daylight hours, all year Sea wall at parking field adjacent to Huntington Mansion, Pelham Bay Park - daylight hours, all year Orchard Beach side of lagoon, Pelham Bay Park - October to May, daylight hours Ferry Point Park - daylight hours, all year Canarsia Pier - daylight hours, all year Shore Parkway, waterfront promenade between Ft. Hamilton & Bay 8 Street - daylight hours, all year Steeplechase Pier(abutment) - daylight hours, all year Steeplechase Pier(both sides of Piar, north of building) - October to May, daylight hours *Coney Island Beach - October to Hay, daylight hours ·Coney Island, Bay 14, east of Steeplechase Pier - dawn to 8 A.M. Neptune Ave. & West 23 St.(area on waterfront promenade)-daylight hours, all year Plum Beach, east of picnic area - daylight hours, all year *SURF CASTING * * * * *jw-ff OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE Tuesday, T I L , HB3BNT 4-1000 ^ /; "\ . / "August 3, 1943 The fourth concert sponsored by tlie Associated Committee of the League of Composers in cooperation with the Department_of Parks will be presented on Tuesday, August 3, at 8:30 P.M. The orchestra of the National Orchestral Association with Leon Barzin conducting will present the concert. The concert will start at 8}30 P.M. Preceding it from 6-7:30 P.M. there will be a rehearsal open to the public, of two "SymphoniettaS "« The public will have an opportunity to observe a real symphonic rehearsal, hear the conductor's remarks and see just how the coordination of a performance is finally achieved. The orchestra is the youngest ever assembled by the National Orchestral Association, its players ranging from 13 years up, the average age being 18 years. Almost half of the 120 members are women. The program will consist of a Beethoven Overture, a Mozart Symphony and an Overture by Arne; the two symphoniettas and compositions by Paul Creston and Morton Gould. The program will be repeated on Wednesday night, August 4, at 8:30 P.M. at the Music Grove, Prospect Park, Brooklyn. * * * 'Hi /C EEPAfflMMT OF PAEKS ARSMAL, CENTRAL PiffilC FOR RELEASE Friday, T I L . RBQHST 4-1OO0 July 30, 1943 The Department of Parks announces the third of a series of four Naumburg Memorial concerts will be given on the Mall, Central Park, on July 31, at 8:15 P.M. The l a s t one is scheduled for Labor Day at the same location* This concert series is contributed by Mr. Walter Naumburg and Mr. George W. Naumburg, in memory of t h e i r father llkan Naumburg, who donated the bandstand on the Mall. This concert will be given by the Hauraburg orchestra with Baerson Buckley as conductor, and Devora Hadworney as contralto soloist. The program will include well-known selections by Beethoven, Moussorgsky, Rossini, Saint-Saens and Prokofieff. * * * OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK ^ i V ^ 3 3 ~ l-^x"i"^ ! TMw-y FOR KEISASE . _ _ F r i d a y ^ TIL. REGMT 4-1000 "·', " · J u l y 3 0 , 1943 The Department of Parks announces that the city-wide finals in the Municipal Tennis Championships of the Park Association of New York City Fourth Annual Sports Tournament will start on Saturday, July 31, at Central Park, 93rd Street an-d West Drive, at 2500 P.M. Tournaments are listed according to the following schedule! Boys' Singles - Saturday, July 31 at 2 P.M. Women's Singles - Saturday, July 31 at 3t30 P.M. Men's Singles - Sunday, August 1 at 11 A.M. Men's Doubles - Sunday, August 8 at 11 A.M. Women's Doubles - Sunday, August 0 at 11 A.M, This tournament is the culmination of a series of tournaments held on a l l Park Department tennis courts beginning in the month of June. The quarter finalists of the local tournaments then played on selected courts in each borough, for the borough championship. The city-wide f i n a l i s t s are those players who reached the quarter finals in the borough competitions. Play will continue on Sunday and the following week-ends with the semi- finals in the boys' singles and women's singles scheduled to take place Saturday, August 7, while the serai-finals in the men's singles and men's doubles will be held Sunday, August 15. Arrangements have been made to hold the boys' and women's singles on August 14 and men's singles and doubles finals on August 15, The men's singles will have Teddy Schein* winner of this year and last year's borough of Manhattan t i t l e , seeded as number 1. Seeded second is Phil Rubel of Brooklyn, who was 1942-43 Brooklyn Borough Champion. Third and fourth go respectively to Arnold Kent of Mauhat-taia a»d David;Katz of. the Bronx. -2- In the v/omen's ranks, top seeding went to Natasha Irwin, a perennial winner of the Bronx champ ion ship for 8 years and the city champion of last year. Second seeding i s given to Ingrid Lakatos of Manhattan who i s a steady and sea- soned player on the park courts, and will make trouble for any player above her in the women's singles. Third and fourth seedings were granted to Carolyn Liguri of Brooklyn and Nina Irwin, daughter of Natasha Irwin, who w i l l pair for the women's doubles. The seeding in the junior boys' division i s made up of a number of up and coming public park s t a r s . . Ed. Wilowski of Queens, a seeded pla^/ei-' of last year, gets f i r s t b i l l i n g , followed in order by Conrad Rothberg of Manhattan, Thomas Marsh of tlie Bronx and Ernest Stelbackey of Manhattan. The men's doubles i s made up of many of those who are also performing in the singles tournament. Seeded number 1 are Teddy Schein and Ealph Axelrod, a doubles winner in several former tournaments, and a leading contestant in the singles. The number two position was granted to Randy Rothstein and Bernard Levy of Manhattan. They were the runner-up in last year's championships, having lost the final match in a photo-finish by 7-5, 7-5, 6-2. Arnold Lynn and Sd. Wilowski of Queens take third place closely followed by Bernard Weinberg and Louis Bradley of the Bronx. The women's doubles will s t a r t Sunday, August 8. Valuable prizes, donated by the Park Association of Hew York City, w i l l be awarded the winner in each classification. * * * H- MT OF PARKS , CENTRAL PARK OtA · A ^ '* 7 " ) FOR RELEASE E 0 Jul 25 1943 TEL. REGENT 4-1000 ·) / * N ' d r\ ^ » The third concert of the new Music in Wartime series will be presented by the Department of Parks and the Associate Committee of the League of Composers on Central Park Mall, on Tuesday, July 27, at 8:30 P,M. The Columbia University Symphonic Band, conducted by Harwood Simmons will share the program with the famed Iiall Johnson Choir, The series aims to provide music in wartime by New Yorkers of different races, creeds and national backgrounds, as a symbol of Democracy in Art. The band ia the regular University Band but this year, due to the naval training at Columbia, about one third of the band is composed of navy men. The Columbia Band is the only college group ever to have appeared at Carnegie Hall. Many of its former members are now in service bands of the Army, Navy and Air Corps. Harwood Simmons, their conductor, is a member of the faculty of Columbia University. The program will include the following contemporary American Compositions: a suite "Negro Dancers" by Florence Price who is one of the few Negro women corn** posers; "Quaint Minuet" by Henry Cowe 11; "tiarche Carillon" by Howard Hanson. The Hall Johnson Choir, since its inception in 1925, has sung all over America in concert, over the air, and in the motion pictures. Perhaps its best known appearance was in "Green Pastures" which ran for siz years. Eall Johnson, its originator and conductor, is well known as a composer, writer and musical director. A group of songs from the production "Run Little Chillun" will be in- cluded on Tuesday's program. On Wednesday, July 28, at the Music Grove in Prospect Park at 8:30 P.M., the series will present a program by the Schubert Musical Society, a Negro chorus, a selections by the young and talented violinist, Frances Magnes. The director of the Schubert Musical Society is Edward Margetson, whose awards include those from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a fellowship in 1942 from the Julius Rossnwald/. Frances Magnes has appeared as soloist with the Cleveland Symphony, the Naumburg Orchestra and the Petrides Ox-chestrette. She will feature in her V program the "Kexapoda and Five Studies in Jitteroptera" by Robert Russell Bennett. k She w i n be accompanied by Leonid Hambro, a Naval Musician First Class who is Stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. * ** -gmtm m&gmm mm t'm a. I. Dtoited Press - eewera Bronx Hcaaa Ksws Brooklyn Citia«ai p ft /i y T 07 PABKS ARSaSAL, C^TSiALPME TSL. Ha&QiiT 4-1000 """ Ju^y 2 1 , Deportaiflat of Parfce announce* that a baby fallow i««r I U bora at tho Froajwot Zoo o& July 3B* Tha father «aa aplto and th« weight or tha baby at birth wae 15 Xba* Photographti my be vaksaa at aay * DSPiiKTMMT OF PARKS ARSENAL, caJTRAL PARK '4 FOR RELEASE Monday , _, TSL. RBGENT 4-1000 J u l y 1 9 , 1943 The second concert of the new Music in Wartime series will be pre- sented by the Department of Parks and tlie Associate Committee of the League of Composers on Central Park Mall on Tuesday, July 20, at 3:30 P.M. The Factory Orchestra of the Sperry Gyroscope Co., conducted by Maurel Hunkins, will share the program with the young and gifted contralto, Carol Brice. The orchestra of the Sperry Co. is composed entirely of personnel in the offices and factory of the company. It was organized in 1941 as an employee activity, and numbers among its players many former professional musicians, who are now engaged in war- work. Representative are Giuseppo Ciciino who played the French horn at the Metropolitan Opera, Joseph Pellizari, clarinetist at the La Scala in Milan and Davis McCrea, saxophonist in Fats Waller's Orchestra. Carol Brice will offer two groups of songs, one of Negro spirituals, the other of works by contemporary Negro composers. On Wednesday, July 21, at 8130 P.M. the second concert of the Brooklyn series will present the American People's Chorus at the Music Grove, Prospect Park. This group under the direction of Horace Grenell, will present a whole evening of choral works, mainly American, and will include the famous "Ballad for Americans" by Earle Robinson. * * * V&&E0MBSF2 OF PARKS ARSSNAL, CENTRAL PARK f^K-^- ! ^ > ( * ^ . FOR H1L3ASE Sunday, TSL. RSGMT 4-1000 /"} ) ,, I , July 18, 1943 The Department of Parks announces the schedule of 6 more Name Band Orchestras which will play in ·various large parks and playgrounds of the city during the period of July 19-26, as part of the second Consolidated Edison Company Summer Concert and Dance Program in cooperation with the Department of Parks. All dances w i l l start at 3:50 P.M. and continue u n t i l 10:30 F.M, Such popular orchestras as Will Osborn, Joe Venuti and Mai Hallett are included in t h i s period, Folio-wing is the schedule of appearances: July 19 - Mai Hallett at Grover Cleveland Playground, Stanhope Street & Grandview Avenue, Queens July 20 - Mai E a l l e t t at Victory Field, Woodhaven Boulevard & Myrtle Avenue, Queens July 21 - Mai Hallett at Van Cortlandt Park, 241 Street & Broadway, Bronx July 22 - Mai Hallett at the Mall, Central Park, Manhattan July 23 - Joe Venuti at Prospect Park, Brooklyn July 26 - Will Osborn at Colonial Play Center, BracQmrst Avenue and West 153 Street, Manhattan The schedule of other Name Bands in t h i s series w i l l be announced . as soon as the necessary arrangements have been completed. * * * Attached Prase releaae was talaphoned in from by Mr. Blakelook, 7/17/43 at 11:05 A^i. Mr* Heaalip tol*phon©d the following newspapers » Associated Pr«»es * smmm a l l Manhattaea papers New* - eoTera L . I . Ifeily Press & Sfcatan lalaad Advsne« United Presa - ««wnrs Broauc Kara© Hewa Baasoklys Citizaa Daily The rolaaae was delivered t o a l l newspapers and titi© »ffl4«(llr«.HMU&lp*«} * 4 DEPARTIvlSW OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RSL3A8E TEL. REGENT 4-1OO0 Telegram to Hon. Sylvan L, Joseph July 17, 1943 Regional Administrator Office of Price Administration 350 Fifth Avenue New York City "Recent orders of the OPA lifting restrictions against vacation travel have caused still further confusion and we are deluged with requests from tlaose who cannot leave town for vacations but wish to take a day off now and then at the beaches and parks and who ask why they cannot use vacation gas for this purpose. We are unable to offer any reasonable explanation. This is not a case of furnishing additional A or other books increasing the allowance of gasoline but of fair treatment to all people whether they can go to country places and hotels for needed recreation or can only get away a short distance from their homes for a day. The fact that travel by car to beaches and parks maybe difficult to regulate is not an answer because the OPA has already ventured into all kinds of unnecessary, expensive and ineffective regulation. There remains at most only two months of summer and this is not a matter which can wait for further debate. May 1 as head of the city and state park systems of New- York request a prompt and if possible favorable decision. The arguments for recreation especially in urban communities need no further emphasis." Signed ROBERT MOSES D3PARTMMT OF PARKS fc*JLw*>»-^ *Ui r \ * 3 Aasm^L, CMTRAL PARK tlCL . C ^ C o k ^ u ^ SOE aEU!AS2il K TSL. RHJffiT 4-1000 -TWi*!^, The Department of Parks announces a series of games in golf and tennis of the Park Association of Net; York City Fourth Annual Tournament beginning Saturday, July 17. The schedule is as follows: Saturday, July 17 - Manhattan, Central Park, 93 Street & West Drive 11 A,M. Brooklyn, Ft. Greene Park, DeKalb Ave» & S. Sliot Street Queens, Kissena Park, Rose St. & Kissena Blvd., Flushing Bronx, St. James Park, 195 Street & Jerome Avenue Richmond, Silver lake Park, Eart Boulevard 30ROUGE FMALS-TISMIS; MEN'S D0UBL3S Sunday, July 18 - Manhattan, Central Park, 93 Street & West Drive 11 A.M. Brooklyn, McKinley Park, 75 Street & 7 Avenue Queens, Forest Park, Park lane South & 89 Street Bronx, Mullaly Park, 161 Street So Jerome Avenue Richmond, talker Park, Bard Avenue & Delafield Place Sunday, July 18 - Forest Park Golf Course, Park Lane South and Forest 9 A.M> Parkway in Forest Park Monday, July 19 - At a l l park golf courses. Despite the fact t h a t a sreat many of our s a l e t e n n i s players a r e in the Armed f o r c e s , a l l signs point to an increase over t h e 700 e n t r i e s of l a s t y e a r . The cost colorful of these events w i l l be t h e team championship in golf. Well known players and figures familiar on park golf courses w i l l p a r t i c i p a t e . Among these are t h e S t r a f a c i brothers of 3rooklyn, Tom Walsh and Lew Pucker of ^asens and Joseph R e i l l y of Richmond. Last y e a r ' s team championship was taken by the 4 low gross scorers from Dyker 3each who completed the course with a score of 605, The winners were Tom S t r a f a c i , Ralph S t r a f a c i , Dominick S t r a f a c i and Jack Lynch* Awards and trophies for these events are donated by the Park Association of New York City, Inc. # * ** Ik 4 OF PARES ^F A &ISBKAL, CSiTBii PARK ' FORJSELEASS Wednesday. T3L. HSSHWT 4-1000 July 14, 1943 The Department of Parks announces that tlie swimming meet in the Park Association of New York City Fourth Annual Tournament, will get under way with trial heats in the novice events beginning July 14 and continuing according to the follow- ing schedule: July 14 - Wednesday - Faber Pool, Richmond July 14 - Wednesday - Tompkinsville Pool, Richmond July 21 - Wednesday - Carmine Street Pool, Manhattan July 21 - Wednesday - Thos. Jefferson Pool, Manhattan July 21 - Wednesday - 23 Street Pool, Manhattan July 28 - Wednesday - Astoria Pool, Queens July 28 - Wednesday - Flushing Meadow Amphitheatre July 28 - Wednesday - Crotona Pool, Bronx July 23 - Wednesday - McCarren Pool, Brooklyn July 28 - Wednesday - Sunset Pool, Brooklyn Aug. 4 - Wednesday - Red Hook Pool, Brooklyn Aug. 4 - Wednesday - Betsy Eead Pool, Brooklyn Aug. 11 - Wednesday - Hamilton Fish Pool, Manhattan Aug. 11 - Wednesday - Colonial Pool, Manhattan Aug. 11 - Wednesday - Eighbridge Pool, Manhattan Aug. 11 - Wednesday - John Jay Pool, Manhattan There will be 13 events in the novice class, ranging frora the 25 meter free style for boys and girls, 10 years and under, to the 100 meter free style for boys 17 years and under. There will be back and breast,strokes at various distances and diving for both boys and girls. Entry blanks may "be obtained at any park pool or borough office. Last year over 1,000 boy and girl novice swimmers took part in the events set apart for them and it is expected that the entry list this year Hill be even greater because of the tremendous interest being shown in this sport. Entry blanks are also available for A.A.U. events for both men and women, most spectacular of which will be the pentathlon events. This pentathlon event for men and women was included in the Sports Tournament schedule three years ago as an open event sponsored by the Park Department. It was quite unknown in this country but took hold immediately and aroused keen competition and interest among swimmers. Because of this interest the A.A.U, sanctioned tho event in 1941 as a Metropolitan event and in 1942 included it in the Hew York State Championships. Because it always brings together the best in swimmers it is felt that it xvill soon be accepted as a, W% ^/^ t -2- National event. Last ye ax pentathlon honors ^3c.t to Mike Priano of the Flat bush Boys Club while Helene Rains of the Woman's Swimming Association carried off the women's championship and. trophy. Also scheduled are Municipal events for male members of the city depart- ments and swimming events for men of the armed forces. Closing dats for entries in these three groups i s August 9. Trial heats for the Municipal departments w i l l take place Friday, August 13, 6:30 P.E, at Crotona Pool, The Bronx, and for the A.A.U., Monday, August IS, 6:30 P.M. at Astoria Pool, Queens. City-wide finals for both the so events arc scheduled for Astoria Pool, on the evenings of Tuesday and Wednesday, August 17 and 18, at 6:30 P.M. The Municipal department events always bring t o - gether many old timers who years ago were outstanding champions and have kept them- selves in t i p top shape. Last year one of the outstanding competitors was George Fissler- now with the Department of Public Works and former Olympic record holder and at one time holder of every National free stylo record. Trial heats for the military events will be held at Sunset Pool, Brooklyn, Monday, August 23, at 6:30 P.M. City-wide finals in the military and novice events are scheduled for McCarren Pool, Brooklyn, on Tuesday and Wednesday, August 24 and 25, at 5:30 P.M. Medals and awards, donated by the Park Association of New York City, will be a?irardod to 1st, 2nd, 3rd in the championship meet. * * * DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK TEL. REgent 4 - 1OOO For Release Saturday July 10, 1943 The Department of Parks announces that local course championships for men and women golfers in the Park Association of New York City Fourth Annual Sports Tournament will take place on Sunday, July 11.at the ten park golf courses. Score cards have been accepted at a l l golf courses since June 5. Each golf course selected the thirty-two low gross scorers, who will compete for their local course championship of medal play. The eight low gross scorers in the local championships will represent the course as a team in the city-wide team champ- ionship at Forest Park on July 18. Matches will consist of t h i r t y - six holes of medal play with the four low gross players representing a course, being the city-wide team champions. On Monday, July 19, participants in the Junior Boys' division will compete for the various course t i t l e s in t h e i r own division. On the week ends of July 25 and august 1, the t h i r t y - two two low gross scorers will meet in 18 holes of match play at Clearview for the Municipal Golf Crown and the ^ewbold Morris Trophy. The semi-final and final rounds will be 36 holes of match play. ;%ker Beach Golf Course in Brooklyn will be host to a l l of the tournament winners and runners-up on the ten courses in both the Junior Boys and ^omen's division, on Sunday, August 8. Winners of the Women's and Junior Boys' Division will be presented with trophies donated by the Park Association of New York City. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS Friday For Release July 9, 1943 ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK TEL. HSgent 4 - 1000 The Department of Parks announces that the borou^i champ- ionships of the men's singles in tennis in the Park Association of New York City Fourth Annual Tournament will begin on Saturday, July 10, at 2 P. M., according to the following schedule: Manhattan ~ Central Park, 93 Street and West Drive Brooklyn - McKinley Park, 75 Street and 7 Avenue Queens - Forest Park, Park Lane South and 89 Street Bronx . - Mullaly Park, 161 Street and Jerome Avenue Richmond - Walker Park, Bard Avenue and Delafield Place Several hundred have participated in the local tournaments, which began on June 19 on all park tennis courts. The contenders for the borough titles are comprised of' eight quarter finalists from each local tournament. The winners of these events will enter the city-wide finals, which, will be conducted at a later date. Valuable prizes, donated by the Park Association of New York City, will be awarded the winner in each borough contest. # # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR RELEASE Tuesday TEL, REgent 4-1000, J u l y 6, 1 9 4 3 . The Department of Parks announces t h e Ninth Annual American B a l l a d C o n t e s t f o r Barber Shop Q u a r t e t s w i l l take p l a c e on t h e M a l l , C e n t r a l P a r k , 71 S t r e e t and Center Drive on Tuesday, J u l y 6 , a t 8:30 P.M. As a special feature attraction of this year's program, there will be a separate division for Service Men's Quartets-representing the U. S. Marines, Coast Guard, U. S. Wavy, Infantry and U.S. Air Corps* Another highlight of the evening's entertainment will be the famous radio quartet, "The Southernaires", who will be on hand to en- t e r t a i n the thousands of lovers of harmony by singing some of the popular southern melodies. The judges are composed of experts in the field of song, and others who have qualified through past service. William C» Handy, composer of the famous old song "St. Louis Blues" and top tenor in a Barber Shop Quartet, which traveled throughout the country as part of a minstrel show back in 1897, has consented to be one of the judges. His associates at the judges' table will be Mayor LaGuardia, Governor Al Smith, Park Commissioner Robert Moses, Geoffrey O'Hara, song composer, James F. Evans, Director of State Parks, Paul Winslow of the Taconic State Park Commission, Frank W. Smith, retired President of the Consolidated Edison Company, Charlss U. Powell, retired Engineer in Charge of Queens Topographical Bureau, J. Bailey Harvey, member of the University Glee Club, Luthar S. Steward of the National Federation of Federal Employses, Richard G. Husch, and Douglas Paige. During the past two wseks , the preliminaries ware held in each of the five boroughs. After Iist6ningto a rendition of such popular American Ballads as j "Let Mo Call you Sweetheart","Take Me Out To the Ball Game", "Mandy Leo","Yankee Doddle Dandy", "Dear Old Girl" and other songs made · 4 -2- famous by the harmonizors of tho old tonsorial parlors in tho early part of the present century, tho judges of the respective borough contests docided that nino quartets qualified for tho city-wido finals on July 6th beside tha five quartets representing tha armed forces. Tho selection was predicated on a comprshonsivs variety of factors including rhythm, intonation, tons quality, diction, precision, dynamics, voice blending, harmonic originality,phrasing, costumo and stage presence, Tho nino groups of civilian balladoers are composed of mon drawn from every walk of lifo embracing commercial, industrial, social and civic organiza- tions, Tho "St. Mary's Eorseshoers" Quartet, which won tha championship in ono of tho previous contests, will be there to retrieve tha crown of harmony. In addition, wo will have such quartets as "Tho Desmond Brothers Quartet", "Police Department quartet", "Tho Ridgowood Clippers" and "New York University Varsity Quartot". Each quartet will bo permitted to sing two numbers, both of which shall not oxcood eight minutes duration. Appropriate prizes will bo awarded to each member of tho quartets, in both the civilian and service men's division, which attain f i r s t , second and third places. Music for the evening's entertainment will be furnished by the United States Coast Guard 24-pioco orchestra, undor th^ leadership of Tom MacLaury, with Dick Judge, the orchestra's vocalist, who was formerly associated with tho famous namo bojids of Teddy Powell and Richard Himbsr, Tho public address system will be supplied by tho Municipal Broadcasting Station T TMYC and a portion of tho program will bo broadcast from 8:30 to 9:15 over the samo station. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS Arsenal, Central Park Tel. Regent 4-1000 FOR RELEASE____ July 6, 1943 The Department of Parks announces the remainder of the summer schedule of the open air puppet and marionette shows including "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Jack and the Beanstalk" will be given from July 6 to September 4 inclusive in various park playgrounds throughout the five boroughs, from an especially constructed trailer stage. The first half of the schedule began on June 14 and a series of 32 shows were given before an audience of 12,000 children, "Little Red Riding Hood" consists of three acts and lasts about 50 rainutes, while "Jack and the Beanstalk" consists of three acts and lasts approximately 45 minutes. The first showing will be made beginning Tuesday, July 6, at Walker Park, Bard & Davis Avenues, West Brighton, Staten Island, at 11 A.M. and at Westerleigh Park, Willard and Maine Avenues, Westerleigh, Staten Island at 3 P.M. The shows will continue to be presented at the various boroughs according to the attached schedule: Richmond - July 6 to 8, inclusive Manhattan - July 9 to 24, inclusive Brooklyn < - July 25 to August 7, inclusive Queens - August 9 to August SI, inclusive Bronx - August 83 to September 4, inclusive f CITY OF NE"rf YORK ·' DEPARTMENT OF PARKS SGHSDULE OF TRAILER MARIONETTE THEATRE J u l y - S e p t e m b e r 1943 "RED SIDING HOOD" and "JACK AND THE BEANSTALK" P r e s e n t e d a t : RICHMOND: Tuesday July 6 Walker Park - Bard & Davis Aves., 11 A, M. West Brighton Westerleigh Park - Willard and Maine 3 P. M. Aves., Westerleigh Wednesday July 7 Lincoln Avenue Playground, Midland Beach 11 A. M. Schmul Playground, Wilde Ave., Travis 3 P. M. Thursday July 8 Faber Playground - itichmond Terrace, 11 A. M. Port ·"·ichmond Willowbrook Park - Richmond & Rockland Ave., 3 P. M. Victory Blvd., Bulls Head Friday July 9 J. Hood Wright Plgd.- 175 St. & Ft. 11 A.M. & 3 P.M. Washington Avenue Saturday July 10 Colonial Park, Bradhurst Avenue & 150 St. 11 A.M.& 3 P.M. Monday July 12 Riverside Drive and 148 Street 11 A.M.& 3 P.M. Tuesday July 13 Riverside Drive and 103 Street 11 **.M.& 3 P.M. Wednesday July 14 Riverside Drive and 74 Street 11 A. M.& 3 P.M. Thursday July 15 Heckscher Playground, 66 Street, 11 *.M. & 3 P.M. Central Park Friday July 16 Kelly Playground - 17 St. & 8 Ave . 11 A,M. &3 P.M. Monday July 19 Mt. Morris East Plgd. - 123 St. & 11 A.M. &3 P.M. Madison Ave. Tuesday July 20 Thomas Jefferson Park - 112 St. & 11 A . M . & 3P.M. East River Drive Wednesday July 21 Hamilton Fish Park, Pitt, Houston & 11 A.M. & 3P.M. Stanton Sts. Thuraday July 22 Roosevelt Park - Chrystie & Forsythe Sts. 11 A.M. & 3 P.M. Friday July 23 Columbus Park - Baxter & Worth Sts. 11 *SM. & 3P.M. Saturday July 24 Chelsea Park - 28 St. & 8 Ave. 11 A.M. & 3P.M. Monday July 26 Fort Hamilton Parkway & 58 St. Plgd. 11 *.M. & 3P.M. Tuesday July 27 Lindsay Playground - Lorimer St. & 11 A. M.& 3P.M. Johnson Avenue Wednesday July 28 Bushwick Plgd. - Putnam, Irving & 11 A.M. & 3P.M. Knickerbocker Aves. Thursday July 29 34 St. & 3 Ave. Playground 11 A.M. & 3P.M. Friday July 30 Atlantic Avenue and Linwood Plgd. 11 A.M. & 3P.M. Monday August 2 Lincoln Terrace Playground, Buffalo 11 A.M. &3 P.M. and E. New York Avenues Tuesday August 3 11 A.M. & 3P.M. Red Hook Stadium, Columbia & Bay Sts. Wednesday August 4 11 A.M. & 3P.M. Gravesend Plgd., 56 St. & 18 Ave. Thursday August 5 11 A.M. & 3 P.M. Neptune avenue & W. 28 St. Plgd. -3-- Friday August 6 Seth Low and Avenue P Playground 11 A.M. & 3 P.M. Saturday August 7 Howard, Pacific & Dean Sts. Plgd. 11 A.M. & 3 P.M. QUE3H3: Monday August 9 Astoria Park - Ditmars Blvd., 19 St., 11 A.M. & 3 P.M. 25 AVB. & 2, aivr Tuesday August 10 Cunningham Park - Horace Harding Blvd. 11 ·"-.M. & 3 P.M. & G. C. Parkway Wednesday August 11 Forest Park Music Grove, Myrtle Ave. 11 A .M, & 3 P. M. Thursday August 12 Grover Cleveland Park - Grandview Ave.11 «..M. & 3 P.M. and Stanhope St. Friday august 13 O'Connor Plgd.-32 .ave. & 210 St. 11 A .M. & 3 P.M. Monday august 16 Liberty Park - Liberty *.ve. & 172 St. 11 A.M. & 3 P.M. Tuesday august 1? Van Wyck Plgd. 11 Ave. & 134-5 Sts. 11 A.M, & 3 P.M. Wednesday august 18 Queensbridge - Vernon Blvd. & Bridge 11 A.M. & 3 P.M. Plaza North, L.I.C. Thursday August 19 Juniper Valley Park-Dry Harbor Hoad 11 A. M. a 3 P.M. & 63 Ave., Slmhurst Friday august 20 Springfield Pond Park- Springfield Blvd. and Sheffield Ave. 11 *., M. & 3 P. M. Saturday August 21 Alley Pond Park - G. C, Parkway & 3 P.M. Winchester Blvd. BROHX: Monday ivugust 23 Mullaly Plgd. - Jerome u.ve. & 3. 165 St. 11 «..M.& 3 P.M. Tuesday august 24 Claremont Park No. - Teller & Mt. Eden 11 «..M. & 3 P.M. Ave. Wednesday August 25 Poe Park - Grand Concourse & 192 S t . 11 A.M. & 3P.M. Thursday august 26 Van Cortlandt Park, 241 S t r e e t & Broadway 11 A.M. &3P.M. Friday August 27 Bronx xiiver Parkway and 203 S t . Plgd. 11 **.M. & 3 P.M. Monday august 30 S t . Mary's Playground JS., T r i n i t y ^ve. 11 *»..M. & 3 P.M. and S. 146 S t . Tuesday August 31 Watson, Gleason and Noble ^ves, Plgd. 11 «..M. & 3 P.M. Wednesday Sept. 1 Water bury, Edison and La Salle Aves. 11 <*»M. & 3 P.M. Playground Thursday Sept. 2 Bronx Blvd. & Rosewood St. Playground 11 **»M. & 3 P.M. Saturday Sept. 4 Pulaski Playground, East 133 Street 11 <*.M. & 3 P.M. Friday Sept. 3 Crotona Park Playground ?f9, Crotona and Willis Avenue 11 ~.^. & 3 P.M. Park "». & ^linton * >' t SHT 05' PiiKKS , CEKTKMi PiiRII For Eel-ase July 3 , 1943 TEL. i