A number of years ago, I was asked by this great institution to provide some bird photographs and a few landscapes as a permanent display. Many celebrities and others have sat in these chairs to have their hair cut, and still do to this day. Of course, sharing the stage with Marilyn goes without saying.
Recently a guerrilla artist put these umbrellas up in the trees. They were taken down by the city. The rain would make the umbrellas pull down the limbs and the coral trees on San Vicente Blvd. (one of the great avenues of the world) would be damaged.
I was visiting the John Burroughs Association at the American Museum of Natural History and I had time to walk through the park, which is right across Central Park West from the museum. In order: Shakespeare Garden; Shakespeare Garden; the Ramble; Bank Rock Bay; Bank Rock Bay. .