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dagpark > In the Beginning... photo

dagpark > Before it's reconstruction, the park was a bleak asphalt corridor that served as the layover for the M49 and M50 crosstown buses.

dagpark > In the early 1990s, city parks were in crisis, and Hammarskjold Plaza was a blight to the neighborhood.

dagpark > Anne Saxon-Hersh organized residents of her apartment (on the park block) to plant ivy on NYC Greenup Day. The ivy died, but Anne's vision of a better park took her to the Turtle Bay Association to revisit a revitalization plan that had been shelved for lack of funding. She went on to organize Friends, serving as president for ten years.

dagpark > To shore up support for the park's revitalization, Anne worked with the Turtle Bay Association to create a model of the new park design.

dagpark > Friends was founded in 1993 to show the community's long-term committment to park upkeep. Here Anne Saxon-Hersh, founder and first president with Frank Murphy, the first vice president.

dagpark > Sherrill Kazan was one of the organization's Charter Members, first serving as treasurer, then vice president and president.

dagpark > This granite plaque is embedded under the entrance dome at the park's entrance (Second Ave). The park's reconstruction was completed in 1999. Funding support was a three-way committment: the Mayor, Borough President Ruth Messinger, and Council Member Andrew Eristoff.

dagpark > Sherrill Kazan and Anne Saxon-Hersh proudly pose in front of Friends' banner on opening day.

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