The plan calls for replacing the two long fountains that now flank the front steps with a pair of smaller square ones, made of granite, to be placed closer to the steps, thereby allowing clearer paths to the museum's 81st and 83rd Street entrances, which are on street level and which many people don't even know exist.
OUTDOOR SPACE: Two decks facing the ocean, and a walled-in yard with a 36-foot-long fountain.
One of the Sycamore's most popular original recipes, judging by the mugs lined up along the long soda fountain counter, is the homemade root beer.
Inside, some scholars pause as though awestruck by the huge organ that dominates the stage, its immense pipes resembling long steel fountain pens – appropriately for the occasion, which is a three-hour reading by some of the finest Parnassian talents in the country.
First in 82, next to the little Buddha in the long, trickling fountain.
It is bisected by a 114-foot-long sculptural fountain by Elyn Zimmerman, a SoHo artist who co-designed the park.
The park's once-scruffy lawns are freshly mowed and the long-dry fountain restored to its former glory.
The downside of the long journey Fountains has made from New Jersey is not lost on the band.
A community garden started in a vacant lot by neighbors 15 years ago has spread; a long-dormant fountain has sprung to life at a park no longer surrounded by vacant buildings.
It opened in 1908 as the Hamburger department store, and in addition to selling clothing and home furnishings it had an 80-foot-long soda fountain, a restaurant, a grocery store, a post office and a roof garden.
The Beaux-Arts-style building opened in 1908 as the Hamburger department store, and in addition to selling clothing and home furnishings, it had an 80-foot-long soda fountain, a restaurant, a grocery store, a post office and a roof garden.
