Keep Central Park Open to All

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We, the undersigned, believe in the democratic spirit of Central Park and oppose plans by the Department of Parks and Recreation to install 35-foot-tall bubbles over tennis courts between 94th and 96th Streets in Central Park. We echo the words belowjust a sampling of those who have so aptly captured the character of Central Park, a National Historic Landmark and New York Citys first Scenic Landmark (designated in 1974 by the Landmarks Preservation Commission):


The basic purpose of Central Park is to escape the city: its buildings, events and schedule. It is to experience nature in the form of a living landscape, a landscape artfully manipulated to encourage wonder and surprise, such as the sudden view on the northwest drive over a meadow and crest of trees where no building interrupts the skyline We need fewer distractions not more.
Barry Benepe, architect, founder of the Union Square Greenmarket, and urban planner
In a letter (dated Dec. 4, 1996) to Nicholas Quennell, then-President of the Art Commission (now Public Design Commission) in regards to a proposal by the Central Park Conservancy to install 136 seven-foot-tall signs in Central Park.


[I]t is too bad that the promoters and planners of so many heterogeneous encroachments should ignore so completely the original park designers intelligently conceived view lines, circulation systems, planting plans, and water body configurations, or that they should have been allowed to exploit these in limited ways that compromise the integrity of the parks over all designs.
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Founder, first president and life trustee of the Central Park Conservancy
From the book, Central Park: An American Masterpiece, by Sarah Cedar Miller (published 2003; page 239)

1481 Signatures

  • Kate Wood
  • Cory Williams
  • Joshua Starjnski
  • Nicholas Macris
  • christopher alvarado
  • Jonathan Mohney
  • caleb mudge
  • Seth Redding
  • Larry Leeson
  • Jay T Harrison
  • Cristiana Pena
  • Thomas Putnam
  • daniel brown
  • Evan Choi
  • Aram Ormanian
  • Austin Porter
  • Deborah Sher
    • Address
    • В
    • Comments
    • В
  • elizabeth felicella
    • Address
    • 10025
  • Frances L Spangler
  • Roberto Cabrera
  • richard Lester
  • Tammi Colichio
    • Address
    • Upper West Side, NY, NY
  • William Avery Hudson
    • Address
    • 10025
  • George Voorhis
  • Ron Barrett
    • Address
    • В
    • Comments
    • В
  • Gillian Scouler
  • claudia gill
    • Address
    • 615 west 172 street
    • Comments
    • the park belongs to the people!!!
  • Judith and Victor Linn
  • Joseph J. Healy
    • Address
    • 163 Saint Nicholas Ave.
  • Bill Goodhart
    • Address
    • 509 East 77th Street
    • Comments
    • Bubbling over is only to make money. We all need the winter to rest - and the courts need to rest too. Please!
  • Stephanie Eisenberg
    • Address
    • Brooklyn NY
  • Susan Delamare
  • Michael V Susi
    • Address
    • Inwood-on-Hudson
    • Comments
    • You've already sold off Bryant Park - what's next?
  • Martin Shore
    • Address
    • 10025
  • Lorena Perez
  • Alison Nicholls
  • Howard Yaruss
    • Address
    • 80 Central Park West
  • Thomas Hansen
  • Philip R Rodriguez
    • Address
    • 327 E 88th St Apt 17
    • Comments
    • В
  • Adam Chodkowski
  • Kent Langloss
  • Francis T Walsh
    • Address
    • 261 West 93 Street, New York
    • Comments
    • Please do not privatize our park facilities; maintain them.
  • Susan Winkeler
    • Address
    • 15 West 84th 7C, NYC 10024
  • Amy Newman
    • Address
    • 610 west End Avenue
  • Harry Mizrahi
    • Comments
    • Just a BAD idea....a really bad idea.
  • Kinnaird Fox
  • Kathy Bunin
    • Address
    • 12 W 96
  • Arlene Geiger
    • Address
    • 240 West 98th Street
    • Comments
    • The bubble would make a beautiful natural oasis - ugly - for the public who walk through it. For what, so people with lots of money [bankers could spend their bonuses here] to have yet more exclusive pleasure. It's an outrage!
  • Brian Minahan
    • Comments
    • I realize the City is strapped for cash but this is not the way to go.
  • Kathleen Lingo