Numbers in italics refer to maps and illustrations.
American Acclimatization Society
American Littoral Society, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
American Museum of Natural History, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2
American Notes for General Circulation (Dickens),
American Revolution, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
Army Corps of Engineers, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Arthur Kill, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 7.1
Atlantic Flyway, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1
see also New York City Audubon Society
Baltimore Oriole, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
birds, migratory, frw.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Birds of the New York City Region (Griscom),
bird-watchers, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Black Wall Marsh, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Blackwell’s Island, see Roosevelt Island
Brief Description of New-York, A: Formerly Called New-Netherlands,
Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 2.1, 2.2
Broad Channel, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9
Bronx, N.Y., prf.1, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 7.1
Brooklyn, N.Y., prf.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 6.1, 7.1
Brown, Nancy Mirandoli, 6.1, 6.2
Buffer the Bay program, 3.1, 3.2
Burnt Island (Deadman’s Island)
Calvanese, Neil, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Cape May Warbler, 5.1
Central Park, frw.1, frw.2, prf.1, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Bethesda Fountain in, 5.1
Bethesda Terrace in, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
birdlife of, frw.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7
Boathouse in, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Lake in, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9
Olmsted/Vaux design of, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9
Ramble in, see Ramble (Central Park)
Central Park Conservancy, prf.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 8.1
Charleston (Kreischerville), Staten Island
Chelsea (NYC neighborhood), 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
Church of God, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
climate change, 1.1, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2
Conrail, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
Corner, James, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6
Cross Bay Boulevard, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge, 3.1, 3.2
Danckaerts, Jasper, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1
David, Joshua, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8
Davidson, Jo, 6.1
Davis, William T., 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
Days Afield on Staten Island (Davis),
Deadman’s Island (Burnt Island)
DiCostanzo, Joe, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Dutch settlers, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2
East River, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 7.1
eco-culture, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Economic Development Corporation
egrets, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 5.1, 7.1
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 2.1, 2.2
environmentalism, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Environmental Protection Agency
Field Operations, see James Corner Field Operations
Flora of Richmond County, The (Britton and Hollick),
Fordham gneiss, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2
Forests and Wetlands of New York City, The (Rogers), frw.1
Four Freedoms Foundation, 6.1, 6.2
Four Freedoms Park, prf.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, 6.1, 6.2
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, prf.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6
Fresh Kills (marshes and landfill), prf.1–xvi, 2.1, 2.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6
methane recapture system at, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
Freshkills Park, frw.1–xii, prf.1, prf.2–xvi, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, bm1.1
long-term methodology of, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Freshkills Sneak Peek, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Friends of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, 3.1, 3.2
Friends of the High Line, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7
Friends of the Staten Island Greenbelt, 2.1, 2.2
Furstenberg, Diane von, 8.1, 8.2
Galleria Vittorio Emmanuele (Milan)
Gateway National Recreation Area, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 7.1
golden ragwort, 5.1
Goldwater Hospital, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Gratacap, Louis Pope, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Great Britain, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald),
Great Kills Park, frw.1–xii, 2.1, 2.2, 7.1
radioactive pollution at, frw.1, 2.1
Guardian of the Bay, 3.1
Hammond, Robert, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7
Harbor Herons Shore Monitoring Program
Harlem River, prf.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
nature’s reclaiming of, prf.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
Sternfeld’s photographs of, 8.1, 8.2
High Line, The (Sternfeld), 8.1
High Line Park, prf.1, prf.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, bm1.1
community organizing for, 8.1, 8.2
Corner team’s design for, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
fund-raising for, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
High Rock (Girl Scout camp), 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
High Rock Nature Center, 2.1, 2.2
High Rock Park, frw.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, bm1.1
Horenstein, Sidney, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
horseshoe crabs, frw.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
horticulture, 1.1, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 8.1, 8.2
Hudson River, 1.1n, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
Hurricane Sandy, 3.1, 3.2n, 3.3
igneous rocks, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1
International Design Competition
Inwood Hill Park, prf.1, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, bm1.1
the Clove in, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
forest of, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
Indian Cave in, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Inwood marble, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2
Island Nobody Knows, The, 6.1
Jamaica Bay, frw.1, prf.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 7.1, 7.2
Army Corps of Engineers and, 3.1, 3.2
landfill projects in, 3.1, 3.2
pollution of, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
wetlands in, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Jamaica Bay Ecowatchers, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Jamaica Bay Research and Management Informantion Network
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, bm1.1
birdlife of, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
James Corner Field Operations, frw.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
John F. Kennedy International Airport, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 6.1
Johnson, Herbert, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Johnson, Philip, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
Kahn, Louis I., prf.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6
kettle-hole ponds, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Krafft, John Charles Philip von, 4.1, 4.2
Kreischerville (Charleston), Staten Island
landscape architects, prf.1, 2.1, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1
Lenape Indians, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
Lenten rose, 5.1
Lincoff, Gary, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Lindsay, John V., 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Long Island, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 6.1
Long Island City, Queens, 6.1, 6.2
Manhattan, N.Y.
see also Central Park; High Line Park; Inwood Hill Park
Manhattan schist, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 98, 5.4, 5.5
marshes, see wetlands
metamorphic rocks, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2
Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
Metropolitian Transportation Authority, 3.1, 6.1
Moses, Robert, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
Jamaica Bay and, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1
parks seen as places of recreation by, prf.1–xv, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1
Staten Island and, prf.1, 2.1, 2.2
Mundy, Dan, Jr., 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Mundy, Dan, Sr., 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Park Service, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Native Americans, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1
Natural Resources Defense Council, 3.1, 3.2
nature
High Line reclaimed by, prf.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
as intrinsic part of New York City, prf.1, prf.2, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1
regenerative power of, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 8.1
Romanticism and, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
as source of inspiration and solace, prf.1, 2.1, 3.1
New Deal, 6.1
New England Journal of Medicine, The,
New Jersey, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
New York, N.Y.
municipal government of, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
parkland map of, prf.1
New York Botanical Garden, prf.1, 1.1, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2
New York City Audubon Society, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
New York City Board of Estimate
New York City Department of Buildings
New York City Department of Environmental Protection
New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1
New York City Department of Sanitation, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
New York City Environmental Fund
New York City Planning Commission, 7.1, 8.1
New York City Transit Authority
New York Department of State Division of Coastal Resources
New York 1960 (Stern, Mellins, and Fishman),
New York State, prf.1, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Nipinisicken (Wickquasgeck village)
North America, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2
North American Mycological Society
Olmsted, Frederick Law, frw.1, prf.1
Central Park and, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11
parks
Moses’s recreation-oriented approach to, prf.1–xv, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1
Parsons, Samuel, Jr. (grandson), 5.1, 5.2
Pennsylvania Station, 6.1, 8.1
phragmites, frw.1, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2
plate tectonics, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1
Pleistocene epoch, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
pollution, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Queens, N.Y., frw.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3n, 3.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Queensboro Bridge, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Ramble (Central Park), frw.1, prf.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11, 5.12, 5.13, bm1.1
Belvedere in, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
bird-watchers and, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
eco-culture in, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
flora of, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
the Gill at, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
invasive plants in, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Romantic aesthetic of, 5.1, 5.2
Vista Rock in, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Report to the Staten Island Improvement Commission of a Preliminary Scheme of Improvements,
Riepe, Don, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
River That Flows Both Ways, The (Finch),
Rockaway Peninsula (Rockaways), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6
Rockefeller, Nelson, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Romantics, Romanticism, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
Roosevelt Island, prf.1, prf.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, bm1.1
FDR Memorial at, see Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
hospitals on, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Johnson/Burgee plan for, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Roosevelt Island Disabled Association
Roosevelt Island Historical Society
Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC), 6.1, 6.2
St. George, Staten Island, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Saint Virgilius Roman Catholic Church
Sandy Hook, N.J., 3.1n
Shorakapok (Wickquasgeck village), 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
Short Treatise on Horticulture, A (Prince),
Snowy Egrets, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2
Stapleton, Staten Island, 2.1, 2.2
Staten Island, N.Y., frw.1, frw.2, frw.3–xii, prf.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 3.1n, bm1.1, bm1.2
Fresh Kills on, see Fresh Kills; Freshkills Park
Native American occupation of, 2.1, 2.2, 7.1
suburbanization of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 7.1
wetlands of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 7.1
Staten Island Citizens Planning Committee
striped white violets, 5.1
Strong, George Templeton, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Taconic orogeny, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1
Thoreau, Henry David, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 7.1, 8.1
Tottenville, Staten Island, 2.1, 2.2
Towbin, Henry, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
Trees and Shrubs of Central Park (Peet),
Udalls Cove, 1.1
Umpire Rock, 1.1
United Nations, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Urban Development Corporation (Empire State Development Corporation), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
vanden Heuvel, William, 6.1, 6.2
Vaux, Calvert, prf.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Verrazzano, Giovanni da, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Walking the High Line (Sternfeld),
Welfare Island, see Roosevelt Island
Welfare Island Development Corporation (WIDC), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
wetlands, frw.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1
White Plains, Battle of (1776)
William T. Davis Wildlife Refuge, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6