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Great Lawn: From Reservoir to RecreationLocation: Mid-Park, between 79th and 85th Streets.
Landscape: 55-acre landscape; the central oval is 12 acres.
Access: The Great Lawn closes for winter. Red flags indicate temporary lawn closures.
Central Park’s Great Lawn occupies a former reservoir site. Its 55-acre landscape includes softball fields, Turtle Pond and the Arthur Ross Pinetum.
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Brooklyn Army Terminal: From War to WorkWhat: Brooklyn Army Terminal: a former U.S. Army supply and shipping base, now a working industrial campus with public waterfront spaces.
Where: 140 58th Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The photographed atrium is in Building B.
Built: 1918–1919, during a military construction program begun in World War I.
Freight trains once ran beneath the loading balconies of this Sunset Park military depot. Its history connects wartime shipping, confiscated Prohibition liquor and Elvis Presley’s departure with a working campus for manufacturing, climate technology and public art.
