The plan, created by the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation, would use tax money to build grassy lawns and recreation centers on the waterfront.
"You couldn't get a roof patched, a stone wall built, a lawn mowed, a meal cooked, a table bused," he said.
It was very green and wooded then – a beautiful idea, with rows of houses separated by large green spaces – but gradually more roads were built, the lawns on which we played (immaculately kept by the council 40 years ago) were turned into carports, and the motorway and a large ancillary road hemmed the estate in.
They were built around lawns, without flowers or other decorations, intended to highlight acceptance of the tragedy and avoid the expensive and pretentious sentimentality that the German VDK felt Allied cemeteries invoked.
Wiseman records the anxieties of this group, and at the same time, putting things in perspective, he shows the truly disadvantaged who sweep the campus steps, mow the lawns, build new roads, and provide so pleasant a setting for the students' self-questioning.
Then I brought in excavators and bulldozers to expand the lawn and build stone walls.
But how to achieve this if she can't swim in the sea or pet a dog or sit on upholstery or go on a playdate or roll on the lawn or build a sandcastle?
The most obvious of these is Chicago's Millennium Park, a somewhat traditional arrangement of cultural buildings and sprawling lawns built on top of a derelict rail yard.
The liveliest exchanges took place around bonfires built on the lawn by Mr. Nagler, a former Eagle Scout from Texas, whom Mr. Holtzman nicknamed Wilbur.
The nests will be sporadically built throughout your lawn or garden, but will typically be in the driest areas and/or under longer grass/weeds or under growing flowers.
Its director, Lori L. Moran, recently announced that she was leaving for a full-time job, though she knew she'd miss working where residents bring in vegetables from their gardens, rake the library lawn, and help build bookshelves.
