All language subtitles for Central.Park.1989.1080p.WEB-DL.x264.en

(upbeat horns playing)

(horns honking)

(birds chirping)

(honking horn)

(chatter)

- [Man] Look at me, come on look at me.

Come on there you go, there you go, just stay right there,

stay right there, look at me.

Come on open your eyes, you got to open your eyes,

stay awake, come one.

What else you were taking partner?

You took angel dust?

Huh?

(talking low)

What were you taking today?

- Calvin.

- What's his name?

- I don't know, I just met him.

- What's your name, come on, what's your name?

- What's wrong?

- Oh no, there's nothing wrong, I wanna ask,

what's wrong with you?

Come on talk to me, I'm trying to be a friend to you,

come on talk to me.

Open up, come on open your eyes, come on.

Talk to me.

(speaking)

Ah there you go what's your name?

(speaking)

(excited chatter)

- [Woman In Hat] You want to play something?

Alright.

- [Child] Who are you with man?

(chatter)

- In the beginning in the Bible it says,

in the beginning there was the word,

there was the word.

I know in the Bible they mean the Word of God

but it's also the word.

Think if you couldn't, if you didn't know language

if you couldn't express yourself, how awful that is,

can you imagine?

You have the word, thank God you have the word,

so,

let's use the word, let's use the word,

that's what will set you free, is the word, okay?

But also you have words, you have words,

and in words are emotions and feelings,

and so I'm saying, when you look at the text there's

a lot more, instead of passing over it, is to use it.

What does this mean?

How do I feel when I say in disgrace, I'm not saying

when I'm being honored, I'm in disgrace,

that means something differently.

When in disgrace with fortune?

What is fortune, is that money?

May be, fortune, fortune,

good luck?

Good fortune, bad fortune, I'm in disgrace with fortune.

And then how does the word fortune,

what kind of emotion does just saying the word fortune,

if I say mama, that makes me feel differently,

if I say womb.

If I say hit,

that makes me feel differently,

my body reacts to punch, hit right?

So there's emotions involved in words,

so I'm saying, you don't know anything about the character.

Well technique, okay let me start with the body,

is this a primitive kind of you know,

Caliban for an example, he's from the earth right?

Ariel's from the air.

What's it feel like to be in the air.

Caliban's from the earth.

Gary'll show you this, this is you know,

Gary is really good at that.

But I'm saying you can get that from the words too,

what are the words, how do they feel in your mouth?

Just the physical word eyes, eyes, eyes,

men, men, women, women,

do you see women?

There are more curves in women,

women, men, men, women

possessed, possessed, possessive, bring, bring.

Do you see?

- [Man] She took out the stupid big knife, this knife

was like this big.

- [Woman] Her knife?

- Yeah her knife, then she said,

now I dare you that cut your hand off.

I said huh?

I said I dare you to cut your hand off,

you dared me to take my eye out and I took it out for you,

now I dare you to cut your hand off, so he cuts

his hand off, and then he.

- [Woman] It's a very strange story, right?

- Yeah it is, she doesn't start cutting up his chest,

so he started cutting up his chest wide open and all,

and you see all the blood coming out.

And then, the guys who were in charge of the camp

camp master whatever, what do you call that?

Ranger.

- [Woman] A Ranger, no.

- I guess a Ranger, anyway those guys who are

in charge they come inspecting around,

they come checking up on people that they're all okay,

he saw him, so he said hey man, you alright?

Lookit, there was no girl around, now how can that be?

(woman talking)

No he was all cut up and everything,

but there was no girl around, how can that be?

- [Woman] So it was like a dream.

- [Male] No, it wasn't a dream he was all cut up.

- [Woman] Oh I see now.

- [Male] It was no dream it was for real, but there was

no girl around, how can that be?

- [Woman] Did he himself do it?

- [Male] Yeah, he imagined the whole thing.

He imagined that he was with the girl

the whole time so they sent him back to

the to the mental hospital,

he had to stay there for six months

and then they let him out.

- [Woman] I want to be sure,

this is a true story or just a story that you made

last night?

- [Male] I made it yeah.

- [Woman] Where you get that?

- [Male] From a movie.

(chatter)

- Amen, hallelujah.

I submit myself to my father to be led

that I might lead to love him,

that I might be filled with love

to love you effectively.

I submit myself to you in love Elaine and give myself to you

as my wedding gift, my flesh,

to exercise your authority over,

that I might not defraud you of pleasure.

I commit myself to provide for the welfare of your flesh

and to your soul and pray to my father

that he would fulfill your needs in spirit and in truth.

I love you Elaine and you are my greatest gift

and my greatest treasure, in you my dreams are fulfilled.

- Bill I feel like the most privileged woman on earth

because God has given you to me for my husband.

You are my chosen one, not chosen by me but chosen for me.

I will uphold your honor in the eyes of others

and remember to praise you when I'm with them.

I admire you, respect you, and love you.

I treasure your companionship,

and I value your opinions very much.

I will remember to seek your highest good first,

and to put the importance of our relationship

before my own personal wants and desires.

I know that marriage is holy in the sight of God,

but it is the most serious commitment in this life

outside of our own commitment to Jesus as Lord.

It is to not be broken except by death, but it's to endure

through blessing or trial,

through financial trouble, or wealth,

through long illness, or health.

Our faith and commitment will be tried,

but God will be with us and we will come forth

as pure gold refined by fire.

I make this vow today to put my hand in yours,

to face the future with you as my head,

as we in turn place our hands in his

and seek his will for our lives.

I Susan Elaine Morgan do take the Beau Davis

to be my lawfully wedded husband from this day forth,

to cherish for as long as we both shall live,

praise the Lord.

- Hallelujah, praise the Lord.

This time I'd like to share with you

something out of the scriptures.

There was a time if you'll remember

Beau and Elaine where the Lord made a covenant

with his people, the Bible said that God created

man in his own image.

And the Lord made a covenant he spoke

some words to them in the garden at the beginning,

and this was before sin entered into the world.

The Bible says that God sent Jesus Christ to the world

to die for our sins, and he rose again.

And the Bible says that Jesus Christ

rules and reigns in the heavens right now

until every one of his enemies have put under his feet.

And that by his blood,

we can have that relationship restored back to God

and there's a new covenant that he's made with us

to restore that relationship that God had

with Adam and Eve when he walked with them in the garden.

This is what he said to them in the garden before sin

entered and this was God's perfect purpose and God's Word,

God's admonished men to that the first marriage

in the first wedding that ever took place.

This is what he said, and God said let us

make man in our image after our likeness

and let them have dominion over the fish

of the sea, over the fowl of the air,

and over the cattle ,and over all the earth,

and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

so God created man in his own image, in the image of God

created he him, listen to this, male and female

created he them.

Man spoke of male and female, not just male.

God created man and woman in his own image

and God blessed them, and God said unto them

be fruitful and multiply, replenish the earth,

subdue it, have dominion over the fish of the sea,

over the fowl of the air, and over every living

thing that moveth upon the earth.

Now I want to take a moment, God said some things

to this first couple in the garden, and I think

it's a beautiful setting, and I think it's perfect today

that God brought you here into this beautiful garden

in the midst of one of the most awesome cities in the world.

Unquestionably, a city that touches the world.

(speaking foreign language)

- [Gray Haired Woman] Michael?

- [Michael] Yeah.

- Some of these salvias have got aphids

eating them and I've just been pulling

the bad stuff off because that will,

you know the aphids will get tired one of these days.

Also, there are a lot

of aphids on the equinox in the corner of be seven.

And I know that Dan got them off of here the other day

which is good.

- [Michael] With soap?

- No he did it with,

- [Michael] Oh, with the hose.

- the hose, putting his finger in the hose,

you hit 'em really hard.

Apparently they don't have the strength

once they drop down to come back up again.

So let's hit the ones in bed seven too,

'cause they're about to bloom.

- Okay.

- [Woman] A lot more,

and I spend a lot of time trying to find them.

- [Man In Stripes] Do butterflies migrate

up the coast the way birds do?

- [Woman] Yes, they do.

- [Man In Stripes] They do.

- [Woman] but not as much.

- [Man] A few, a few, it's not quite

the same thing as birds.

- No, it's not all.

- Most of 'em there's a lot of,

some species move out when their population builds up

and they'll move northward in the late summer

and build up populations further north and then keep going,

and then there's some species that that move somewhat south

in the fall, the only really true migrant,

the monarch butterfly that really goes down to Mexico

and comes comes back up, but even they, they don't

it's not a one, it's not a total back and forth,

the ones that go down south,

they don't make it all the way up in the spring.

It's the generations after that come up this level,

so it's not exactly,

there's no real exact parallel to bird migration at all.

- See this is supposed to be the same on either side,

see how that has a definite corner there, but this

it kinds of disappear the corner, because it hasn't

been groomed the same, so what you're doing is you're

gonna try to make that corner come back as much

as we can without making it all bare.

If you could cut just right straight back like this,

and kind of the corner, but not too much.

Cut a little bit first, cut a little bit then

a little bit more, then go forward.

- [Man] Got to go slow, don't do it too fast.

- You need to slow down, just a little bit slower,

- You're going too fast and you're putting your.

- just a little bit more careful.

- [Gardener] It's not good for deeper, deeper.

- Just just go a little slower, okay.

I promise it will be better, just look at it

a little more carefully.

You're gonna want to cut this part as much as you can here

so it's a real corner.

- [Man] We wanna breathe, breathe.

- [Woman] Okay.

- [Man] Alright.

You have to have commitment to do it, we've got commitment.

- Okay.

When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes

I all alone but weep my outcast state

and trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries.

- [Man] Breathe.

- And look upon myself and curse my fate

wishing me like to one more rich in hope

featured like him, like him with friends possessed.

desiring this man's art, that man scope.

- [Man In Green] Slow it down.

- With what I most enjoy contented least.

- Contented least.

Right?

- [Woman In Glasses] Least.

- Yes, now what happens?

Now we can start again, we can start again down here

but we're always going up, so we go down but we're coming up

as we're going down we're going up, alright?

- [Woman In Glasses] Yeah.

- So contented.

- [Woman In Glasses] With what I most enjoy contented least,

yet.

- Alright, now take time there's a transition here,

if you end it right there this person is suicidal almost

isn't he?

- [Woman In Glasses] Yeah.

- Right, we talked about this,

yet but something happens,

there's a person, there's another person right?

So let's see that transition, now the mood changes,

yet I think on thee!

- [Woman In Glasses] Okay, do it from the lat line or?

- Yeah, yeah, back up a couple lines.

- [Woman In Glasses] Desiring this man's art and

that man's scope with what I most enjoy contented least.

- Yes.

- [Woman In Glasses] Yet at least.

- And we're going up yet,

- [Woman In Glasses] In these.

- Wait, wait, wait, Caroline,

yet, in these, then we're building again right?

- [Woman In Glasses] Okay.

- Go back two lines.

- [Woman In Glasses] Desiring this man's art

and that man's scope.

- Watch me.

- [Woman In Glasses] With what I most enjoy

contented least, yet

- Yes.

- [Woman In Glasses] in these thoughts,

- Watch me.

- [Woman In Glasses] myself almost despising,

- Yes.

- [Woman In Glasses] happily I think on thee.

- Yes! And then what?

- [Woman In Glasses] And then my state.

- And then my state.

- [Woman In Glasses]Right to the lark it break

- Right to what?

- [Woman In Glasses] but to the lark.

- Where's the lark?

Right to the lark.

- [Woman In Glasses] Right to the lark.

- At what?

- [Woman In Glasses] At break of day arising.

- Yes, slow it down.

Arising.

- [Woman In Glasses] Arising.

- Arising.

- [Woman In Glasses] Arising.

- From.

- [Woman In Glasses] From sullen earth.

- From what?

- [Woman In Glasses] From sullen earth.

- From what?

From sullen earth. - From sullen earth.

- From sullen earth sings hymns at heaven's gate.

- At heaven's gate!

(horn honking)

(birds chirping)

(chatter)

- I understand though, look I'm not trying to beat up on you

I'm just saying that it is something that

is a piece of design that I've invested an awful lot of

interest and time and the conservancies resources

in seeing that we have a beautiful light that will be,

it's just something I care about that's all

and so I would like to be

your friend and your helper.

And in coming to a solution and I think that we

really should do a final model.

I really think that there's always, I have found

in doing the luminaire that we had a much better project

because we worked on the actual model than we could never

have done just from a drawing.

I'm sure I'll love it, I really am sure

I'll like it a whole lot better,

I'm sure that the detail of that top,

how it fits on, I thought that even on the model it was too,

it looked like a billiard cue at the top

and that there is a design detail there

that needs to be articulated.

Yeah, I mean I care a lot

because I mean you know as the architects say

God is in the details, and these sodium,

high pressure sodium, there sulfuric yellow, harsh glow,

they glare in people's eyes at night.

It's aesthetically gross,

it turns the vegetation a muddy brown color because

it's all this warm spectrum of light, and the cool,

even white lights of metal halide are far, far superior.

Of people like Amanda Burton.

Amanda Burton would be a definite ally.

Oh sure.

I've just been reluctant to pull in a lot of outsiders

because I didn't want to you know

bring pressure from the outside,

that's and I didn't want to do that,

but I would think you know if Parks Counsel

or Municipal Art Society or any of these agencies

that care so much about designing their city,

if they would get onto this issue they would realize

that they would be doing a great service

for the future citizens of our parks to ensure

that we had a different kind of lighting

from the harsh street lighting.

- [Woman In Blue Hat] Alright, I don't.

- [Woman] He's in the tree branch.

- I don't know where the nest is,

and I don't know whether they're yet feeding,

but they both seem to be guarding,

probably because there's so many people going through here.

We found a new nest and I'm going to take you to it.

- [Man] Right there, put it right here.

(siren)

(upbeat music)

- I would like to welcome you all

to the 1988 Mississippi Picnic, and my name is

Rachel Macpherson, and if you did not

receive an invitation to this year's picnic you can go to

the registration table to Celia Thomason and make sure

you get on the mailing list.

And also we're getting ready to run

the Mississippi Fried Chicken Contest,

and if you would like to enter the Fried Chicken Contest

please take your fried chicken over to the food tables

and give it to Tim James.

So everyone that has Fried Chicken please go over there

and give your fried chicken so we can judge them,

and thank you for coming.

(blues guitar playing)

(chatter)

(laughter)

- It's a pleasure to be here on stage at

the Great Lawn of Central Park in this

historic place to pay tribute to

one of the earliest inhabitants of this planet,

the Norwal Dinosaur!

Although they lived a 100 million years ago,

dinosaurs fascinate us even today.

Although, none of us none of the 5 billion people

living on the face of this earth

has ever even seen a dinosaur.

Nonetheless, we know of them and we treasure them.

Why this fascination on the part of the human being

of homosapiens with these large reptiles,

who were not even our ancestors?

They were much too big, and in any event they died out,

it's for a number of reasons.

One is their size, they are the largest land creatures

ever to exist on earth, and comparable

to the great tuna fish and the whale,

which are of course even larger, but exist in the sea

where the water pressure makes it easier

for them to get around.

There is a call to the dinosaur which is abroad

in the land and we are pleased to lend our participation

and our support to this harmless, if not

beneficial pastime.

We should learn what came on earth before us and hope that

some day the creatures of the future

and I hope they're our descendants,

they might not be, but I hope that the creatures on earth

a 100 million years from now

should have some kindness in their heart for us ordinary

five or six feet tall weak, bent, emaciated,

non-muscular human beings.

We're not strong but we were smart,

we're smart enough to make the machines

to blow ourselves up, the dinosaurs were

very strong, they were not so smart,

they had very small brains, the dinosaurs.

Now whether if the dinosaurs were any

smarter they would have been able to counter

the environmental or other influences

or disease that killed them, we don't know.

But suffice it to say that they were here,

they had their days of glory

as Rolvaag said, there were giants on the earth

in those times and now we're going to the ceremonial climax

of the ceremony which will be the release of the tarragon.

The tarragon that sounds spicy,

What is this, what are these red balloons?

This dinosaur is filled with, how many balloons?

It's called to tarragon, 700 balloons form this tarragon.

Now the young ladies are released and what do I do?

- [Man] You give the signal.

- [Man In Green] Okay how do I give the signal?

We're ready to begin the dinosaur release countdown,

let's go, 10, nine, eight, seven, six,

five, four, three, two, one.

(whistle)

(cheers)

Blast off, as the tarragon rises into the sky!

I wonder where that one will land.

It's flying, it's a flying pterodactyl, it's got wings.

Okay that's it.

(dinosaurs growling)

- Come on up, come over here.

Now here are the rules of the contest,

you have to name your dinosaur.

Then in a very specific dinosaur language you have

to say, hello and welcome to Dinosaur Day at Central Park!

(screeching)

Very nice, number five the, Authrosaurus.

(screeching)

Alright, okay.

And number six, can you just take a step down,

take a step down.

Okay number six is.

- The Laughasaurus.

(laughs)

- Very nice, number seven.

- The Hungersaurus.

- (screeching)

- Number eight the Baseballasaurus.

- Play ball, play ball, play ball.

- Okay, number nine, the Mamasaurus.

- Oh, oh, oh, oh.

- Very good, the Computersaurus, number 10.

- [Woman In Black] Beep, beep, beep.

- Beep, beep, beep, okay number 11 the Shopasaurus.

- From Bloomingdale's.

(exclaims)

- Okay, number 12.

(screeching)

- And that was the?

- Admonasaurus.

- That's right the Admonasaurus, very good.

Number 13.

- The Aliasaurus.

I'm the queen!

- Good, number 14.

- The Stressedmamasauraus.

Alright, we have a Stressedmommysaurus, okay.

♪ It takes two to make the thing go right ♪

♪ Like paradise ♪

♪ Feeling of attraction ♪

♪ Who's house ♪

♪ Run's house hit me ♪

(trumpet playing)

(roaring)

(trumpet playing)

(choir singing)

- We want to be next to the mayor.

- Yeah, the mayor wants to be next to the Cardinal.

(laughter)

There's a big difference.

- That's right.

- Father Moore.

(speaking foreign language)

(chatter)

- I am here as I have been every year as mayor

because I believe it's important

to demonstrate physically the close working relationship

that government must have with the church

if we are to solve our social problems.

It is not simply on a local level

that the Cardinal and the church

work so closely with government.

Internationally, Cardinal has just been to the Soviet Union,

he's been to Cuba, he's been to Nicaragua,

and I believe that any fair commentator would say

that achievements occurred because of

the church's involvement that

wouldn't have occurred if it had just simply

been government to government.

So I'm very proud of the fact that here in

the city of New York we perceive the church, the clergy,

to be partners, friends, supporters of what government

has to do, and that's the substantive part.

Now let me just give you greetings.

I am (speaking foreign language) of the largest

Puerto Rican city in the whole world.

(cheers)

And I came to say hello to my congregants.

By congregants I mean citizens, the citizens of this

the miracle of God's eye, the city of New York.

(applause)

(upbeat salsa music)

(soft drum music)

(singing in foreign language)

(applause)

(singing in foreign language)

(chatter)

- Whoa, we really got a big bag here.

- [Man] This drum only weighs 50 pounds right?

(talking)

- [Man] 50 gallon drum.

(talking)

- [Man In Cap] Ho oh!

- [Officer] Good morning fella.

- [Man Sleeping] Morning.

- [Officer] What's up guy?

Time to get up.

Sir?

- [Man Sleeping] Yeah?

- [Officer] Time to get up guy.

Take your stuff and move on, we got to clean this area.

Take all your stuff with you okay?

Take all your stuff with you.

Take all your stuff with you.

- [Tall Man] You got it bro!

- [Employee] You put all your effort into this job

this summer, next summer it's going to be

that much easier for you to go out into

the workplace whether it be here in Central Park

or anywhere, and use Central Park as a recommendation

for your future endeavors.

So always keep that in mind 'cause

this is a building block, this is the start for many of you

and for many of you it could be a new beginning too.

So you know give it your all, and I hope you enjoy this

this park this summer, 'cause it's been

a great place to work in, thank you.

- [Instructor] And again up.

Okay, that was great, okay.

(upbeat music)

Now you're ready for a little running in place?

Alright, get ready for a little running in place.

Okay, here we go!

(upbeat music)

And let's kick up the heels in the back, kick 'em up.

(upbeat music)

♪ Here she come now say Monie Monie ♪

♪ Shoot 'em down turn around come on Monie ♪

- [Instructor] And bring your knees up, bring your knees up.

And pump it up go to the right.

And on this song start walking towards 59th street.

Where you're starting, thank you very much,

see you at the finish line.

(applause)

- [Man] Everybody back, everybody back, let's go.

- [Woman] Good luck!

- [Man] Everybody back.

- [Man] Ready, on your mark!

(air horn)

(cheers)

- [Woman] And our runners are off!

Good luck women, who says women can't run the world?

(cheers)

Again who says women can't run the world?

(cheers)

(speaking foreign language)

(talking)

(speaking foreign language)

(laughter)

- [Man] It's turtle suicide.

- [Man] I wish I had a rope.

Get the rope and put him in the lake.

- Oh they coming now, they coming now.

- [Man] Get the rope.

- [Man] You try grabbing it that sucker will bite you.

(exclaiming)

(yelling)

- [Man] Just pick it up Tilly, yeah just like that,

and put it in there.

(talking)

that's it.

(talking)

- [Man In Red] Don't drop it, don't drop it.

- [Man In T-shirt] I got it,

- [Man In Red] Just put him down near the water.

- [Man In T-Shirt] go to the water?

- [Man In Red] Yeah, go to the water.

(talking)

(birds chirping)

(upbeat music)

(upbeat music)

♪ Don't act ill ♪

♪ I came to have a good time party and chill with you ♪

♪ And don't worry sweetheart I'm still with you ♪

♪ And after we leave we will continue ♪

♪ With our plans ♪

♪ But plans are made to be broken ♪

♪ Smokin' ♪

♪ I'm not jokin' ♪

♪ Try to dis' me ♪

♪ And I'll give you a token ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm the type of brother that can't be stopped ♪

♪ And no matter what I'm gonna ♪

♪ Keep keep keep rising to the top ♪

♪ While my mind say ♪

♪ Give it all you got ♪

♪ Give it all you got, give it all you got ♪

♪ Ain't no half steppin' ♪

♪ Give it all you got, give it all you got ♪

♪ You know why huh ♪

♪ 'Cause we're the Get Fresh Crew ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪ Now the music is pumpin', good atmosphere ♪

♪ Chill Will and Barry Bee, they must a beat me here ♪

♪ They're in the booth ♪

♪ Which is all sound proof ♪

♪ Playn' dope jams to rock the youth ♪

♪ But the MC on the mic shouted out ♪

♪ We got the Get Fresh Crew stars in the house ♪

♪ And as the crowd started breakin' ♪

♪ I didn't reply ♪

♪ 'Cause the only stars I know was in the sky ♪

♪ So we continued, through the venue ♪

♪ Didn't pretend to be nuthin' but Doug E ♪

- Shakespeare lived in the year 1600.

He was one of the most

influential writers in England.

Well, there's a man by the name of Mr. Joseph Papp

who produces Shakespearean plays

because he's a lover of the arts.

And because he's a lover of the arts,

and because Shakespeare gave so much to the world

Joseph Papp wanted to return some of which Shakespeare gave

back to the world,

and so every summer from July to August,

right in that theater, and we're going to go up

to the Belvedere Castle

and you're going to go in a real life castle.

One that you've probably never been to because there is

a castle in Central Park and we could

get to see the Delacorte Theater,

the Delacorte Theater was named after a family

who was the first family in theater.

So the Delacorte Theater was the natural spot

in all of Central Park for Joseph Papp

to put on his productions, now if you remember before

I said Shakespeare wrote comedies, to make people

cry or laugh?

- [Children] Laugh.

- And he wrote dramas to make people?

- [Children] Cry.

- Okay, and he wrote history so that people could learn?

- [Children] Learn.

- Okay, well, it's a wonderful world of Shakespeare.

and let me tell you something you guys may come from Queens,

and you may come from all over the world,

and a lot of people say you could

understand Shakespeare, he's very funny.

And Shakespeare was a regular human being and he believed in

making his drama well known to the world.

And there one of my favorite which is called

a Midsummer's Night Dream.

Now we're going to take this path and we're gonna

go up to the castle, would you want to go

and be in a real castle?

- [Children] Yeah!

- One that was brought in from England

and it's called the Belvedere Castle,

and if you can see it was just freshly painted.

Okay?

- [Woman] Let's go.

- Let's go.

(cheers)

(talking)

- But the first thing that we have been

dealing with is the mountain bikes and

it's interesting we staked out two areas

I am told, not this past weekend but,

the weekend before, and I think we also

did it, I know we also did it this weekend

with with no results.

Saw a couple of people on 10 speed bikes

on the paths but didn't see people

tearing up the turf with mountain bikes

at least the cops and the peps who did this

said they didn't they warned the people

who were just driving their bikes

on the paths, which we know is illegal,

but didn't see any evidence of anybody doing any of that.

Now, Catherine tells me that

you think that the, Neal, you think

that the problem is worsening

and maybe we shouldn't be staking them out on the weekends,

maybe it's about after school that we should

be staking out, well, you know, you tell me.

- Well we found last week I went out with

Sarah Cedar Miller to photograph some of these areas,

the areas we photographed

there was no fresh damage however a drive through the park

showed that there are a lot of individuals and couples out

on mountain bikes and they do cut across lawn areas

and create damage to the turf

so the problem is there I'm seeing more of them.

Just last week a gentleman came in to 79th Street yard

who was quite interested in the damage

that was caused at Westside,

- [Man] Westside 70, about 70th the 78th Street.

- Yeah, and he's seen a lot of them going up

the sides and little hills and riding

through the shrubbery et cetera.

- Did he say when, do we have any specifics?

See the problem that you have,

the problem is always that you have a certain amount of

resources and you try to target your enforcement

and these marks and tracks of your finding

may be all over the park but if

you're not on the Great Lawn

at nine o'clock on a Tuesday morning

that one Toby Birdman and his wife

you're never gonna catch them not me of course

the law because the cops aren't gonna be there

he'll come back he'll be in the southern end

of the park the next time you know

so if we're gonna make an example,

so you got to do two things,

you have to have a broad prohibition

and make it known to everybody that you should stop people

that's a real campaign

that's an educational campaign that we

and the cops every every single person who works

in Central Park any citizen who we can enlist the aid of

who will tell people

like people tell us you shouldn't be driving on the

I'm supposed to work here

and you shouldn't be driving on the path,

we shouldn't make them militant about bicycles

and that's a big deal, that's a tall order.

I mean we can handle the stakeouts and and giving them

people with summons or taking their

bikes as evidence we can do that if

we catch them, if we happen to be, but it's

very difficult to ask our people to do

this 24 hours a day seven days a week.

It's whacking them, if you're not in the

right place you're not gonna catch them anyway.

What we need really to do is understand

the problem you know how widespread how

many spots is it if we've relocated on a dislocated

and from the ramble and Strawberry Fields

is that great and is

that something we should be proud of and

just continue to hold those two areas

and get crazy it's like a waging of war

and having your troops all over the place?

Can we can we resod and then reconfigure that area

that you're talking about, level it out?

Is that just defeating our purpose?

- In some areas that could be appropriate,

the idea is you don't want to alter

the park so much I mean again it just

snowballs and you keep putting boulders down or snow fence

and there's only so much you could do

again part of the education really is it,

to get to talk to these folks and

telling them what they're most of them

I would assume would cooperate, 'cause they

look like intelligent people, they're older

and I think if the problem is

explained to them, I think we could help

alleviate some of it.

And then there are those that whatever you tell them

they're going to continue to do what

they're going to do and I guess those

are the people we really want to target.

- There's an education issue but I think that

basically what you have to get to them

is the message that we're not gonna allow it.

- Well, there's a principle here

which is a principle of sequestering

pieces of the park and dedicating

for special interest groups and when you do that

you lose the most precious thing

the park has, which is it's free open space for everybody.

- Basically what they're saying is we want

to have a place to damage in the park

and that's not acceptable.

We can't really negotiate with that group because

there's no negotiate in an inch of the park.

It's a landscape park, that's the point of this whole thing,

it's man made and man tended, and we're not

that's an illicit activity as far as we're concerned.

There's a larger issue here.

Neil says it's really scattered even

husbands and wives on their bikes cut across lawns routinely

in all areas of the park, it's not these organized gangs

that we're necessarily up against.

They seem to have gotten the message at least somewhat.

- I think people want to have a feeling,

that there are park rules, and they'll be enforced.

Maybe we can have the park rules in a simple a brochure

that will available at the park entrances.

Most people have no idea that there are park rules

or that there's any limit on their behavior other than

committing an act of violence or crime.

The process of informing people of the rules,

what's expected them, is a timeless one,

it's like each generation has to be told

it looks like it's a different

generation that comes up each year and I

know something's already been done,

but it's got to be done and redone

until people are aware of what's expected.

I see enormous changes in public behavior,

and some areas are getting better

and some areas are getting worse

it's getting better in areas like

people wearing seat belts in cars, and in

people not smoking and then people are

eating differently in many cases and

much less driving while intoxicated,

because of awareness of that where there've

been large advertising campaigns there

have been changes to people's behavior.

At the same time in those areas which really

aren't closely monitored and sort of conduct choices

as opposed to lifestyle choices

plenty people doing much worse,

- [Woman] It's not worse here in the park than it was

in the '70s and we've come a long way toward

reclaiming the park and managing it a lot better than it was

managed 10 years ago, but they're still.

- Well I'm talking, the park is much cleaner than it was,

we have a conservative so we have more people,

we have greater efforts, and the parks department has

then regained control of Central Park,

it's not a horror show, but.

Totally an individual behavior you see over there

on the Great Lawn, and the park is like a holy place

no one should to defile it and you wouldn't leave

your garbage in a church or a synagogue

and I think the park should be shown respect

and I think that's the message

we have to get across to people

that the park is like their living room,

they wouldn't litter their own living room,

they shouldn't litter the public living room

at Central Park.

(talking)

(laughter)

(chatter)

- After this Bob I want to go uptown

to 109th Street, to that vandalized tree.

- Okay.

A light streak, definitely.

(excited chatter)

- Wow.

- See what we did?

We can make a cake, if you cover this part right here,

see?

Going somewhere, yeah!

- [Girl] I'm not just.

- [Child] You have to get down and I'll do it.

(chatter)

- [Pitcher] Take your time, get ready, ready?

Put all your power into it now, go ahead,

beautiful, look at that beautiful!

(traditional drums)

- Well we're just about ready for one of

the highlights of today's festival it's

a performance by a group called Forces of Nature.

And they're going to dance a lamba,

or celebration, which is based

in the West African folklore tradition.

Now much of what you'll see is rooted in the past,

but Forces of Nature mixes the old with the new

creating something entirely unique.

(singing in foreign language)

(traditional drums)

- [Director] Cut, cut, cut.

I was waving the trucks past, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

- [Man] You were waving the trucks past?

- Yeah, I was trying to get them to go.

- [Woman] Still speeding.

- Okay, they're pissed now we're still rolling,

we can pick it up with the drumming please.

(traditional drums)

(applause)

(traditional drums)

(upbeat music)

(sirens)

(upbeat music)

(drum beat)

- [Woman] Should we go see what it is?

(drum beat)

- Yes, why not?

(chatter)

- [Woman] When baby birds fall out of their nest

it's better to leave them alone.

Yes parents can come down and swoop 'em.

- I don't know she said the were looking,

I can see two eyes.

Looking at me.

(laughs)

Move a little bit

to one side.

Hello.

To the other side she moves.

She's very peaceful, she looks very peaceful.

I saw two ants running around, wow,

they're racing.

But it's nice, it doesn't disturb her.

She's so peaceful now,

she's enjoying all the landscape looking around.

It's beautiful, did you look at her?

- [Man] Yeah, I saw it.

- [Woman In Blue] It's nice.

- [Woman At Podium] And before we go on I have another treat

because Betsy Barlow most of you know is

one of the most remarkable women.

I'm not going to give her very much time but I'm

going to ask her to not only let me

introduce her to those of you who do not know her

but she has a wonderful story about this hill

we're having our luncheon on today, our picnic,

welcome Betsy.

(applause)

And you're so wonderful.

She came all the way from the Bronx today

to be with us she's been in a meeting there,

and you left the meeting

I know in the lunch in there and we really appreciate it.

- Oh, well it's my pleasure and how many years

have we been doing this picnic is this our?

- [Woman] Fifth isn't it?

- [Betsy] Fifth, fourth?

it's really wonderful but we've

never been here before, fourth.

We're really happy to have you here at the Great Hill

we try and bring you to different spots in the park

and when we brainstormed about where to go this year

we thought they would be very nice to

come here we're at 106th Street near

the west side, near Central Park West,

and this is the Great Hill.

And the Great Hill is one of the highest points

in Central Park and it's one of the coolest today

on this hot day and you're under some of the most

magnificent elm trees in the park.

These beautiful elms are some of the elms some

of the 1,800 elms that we are protecting.

We have people scouting now for Dutch Elm Disease

and if we see any signs of infection

we will promptly treat the tree or if

necessary if it's badly infected we'll

have to remove it, the Great Hill was a turnaround

on the carriage drive, you would drive off

the carriage drive and you could come up here

and it was simply to enjoy the view in those days.

The tree canopy had not been built up to such an

extent as it is now, and you could look out

and you could actually see Long Island Sound

in the distance, or you could look over

to the the west and maybe even catch

a glimpse of the Palisade.

The Rangers are looking after us today.

He's lonesome, he wants to go back to the stable,

and the place then changed dramatically,

and during the long Robert Moses administration

he believed in putting in recreation facilities in the park

and so we had bocce court, shuffleboard,

badminton, recreation facilities are all

in this current meadow, what we have

returned to meadow, when we first saw the place

it was like being an archeologist,

you wondered, you know what was this civilization?

What did they do, who were they that left these ruins?

There was nothing but concrete and weeds

growing out of it, anyway we tore up all of the asphalt

and the concrete and we returned it to meadow.

Now Central Park is 840 acres and it's

not getting any bigger but with projects

like this it is getting bigger because

we are returning to public use,

pieces of the park that were formerly abandoned

you would not have liked to have come

here five years ago it was a little bit

sinister feeling it didn't feel comfortable.

Now it's safe, it's comfortable, and it's a wonderful place

to come to, I hope you'll come back.

I come here sometimes with my family for picnics

and I hope that some of you will

also think of coming back very soon and

please go on Gene Clark's tour, anybody

that has not been on the tour,

'cause it's the best way you can familiarize

yourself with the the whole park and

really come to understand what

the great, rich, wonderful resources of

Central Park are for you and your family.

Thanks.

(applause)

- [Woman With Mic] Thank you very much.

(chatter)

- [Woman] Stanley Mister

Richard Tobias

Stephen Probst

Mark Theodore Ted Rifkin

Michael Monarch

Paul Cruz Jr.

my dear friend Charles Gardier

Frank Madam

William Nicom

John Valera

Leroy C.

Michael Rock,

and my own beloved son Bob Harmon.

- [Man] Michael Pitkin.

- Where does it say, where does it show his face?

- It doesn't show Michael's face, here.

- [Child] Right there.

- Michael Pitkin.

- [Girl] That was his last name Pitkin?

- This is, I'll read it to you,

mom and dad,

- Whose mom and dad?

- His mom and dad,

Barb and Doug, Arthur who made it.

Robert, Tom David, LC,

- [Girl] Sylvia.

- Mommy, Sylvia, Robert,

Doug, Sonia,

Edward, Jim, Liz,

- Who's Liz?

- Mommy's friend Liz.

- Mark.

- Mark Summers.

- It says teacher, friend, son, brother, uncle, adventurer.

- Who was a teacher?

- Michael was a teacher with mommy.

- [Man] Sandy Haven

Lars Bayer

Bruce Villareal

Pete Louis Rosario.

In memory NYPD.

Brian Esell

Carmen Delgado

James O'Grady

John C. Murphy

Steve Goodman

Joseph Monty Monteford

George Shlyer

Tom Kelchner

Sid Palmer

and my good friend William Pitt III.

- [Woman] Arlene Binkowitz, volunteer.

- [Woman] James Weisman

Michael John Berger

Jim Johnson

Johnny Caritiolo

Donald Sapio

Joe Sminya

Neil Cameron

Ronald L. Gilder

Rick Nguyen

Rebel Owen

Jeffrey Gibbon

Samaritan Village

in remembrance George Mitchell

and my loving, radiant, courageous son

Dr. Barry Michael Binkowitz.

(whistling)

♪ Until the morning light ♪

♪ Let me tell you how much I love ya ♪

♪ Let me tell ya boy I really need ya ♪

♪ Baby baby baby I'll make it alright ♪

(jazz band playing)

(chatter)

(guitar strumming)

(chatter)

- [Officer] Central Park.

- 14 bags of marijuana.

He's got let me see, three, four, six, seven, same bag.

18 of these little tabs.

And that's four, eight, 12, 16.

- [Officer] 16, and what's on the other one?

- 18.

- [Officer] What's the?

- 19 it's 19, in here.

- [Officer] What's the mescaline?

- I imagine that this may be the mescaline,

and this is LSD, I don't know.

- This is the acid the paper stuff

and this is the mescaline.

- You went through the rest of the bag now?

- Yeah, the bags been checked everything's good.

All the narcotics are found.

- [Woman] The one thing we did want to learn

a little bit about every time we come here,.

we know a little bit about

the fundraising arm of the Conservancy.

- There it is, this is my arm, this is my right arm

this is my right arm right here.

- [Woman In Brown] And you're following the plan

of a 15 mile restoration?

- Pretty much, pretty much, pretty much.

I was recruited two years ago basically

to build a professional fundraising base

for the Conservancy which had

in the five years previously gotten to the point

where it was raising about 4.5 million dollars

in its last year when I came on board

which was very credible.

We have raised in the two years

since 22 million 5.

- In two years.

- In two years.

- [Woman In Brown] Well how do you account for that,

is that the right arm, or the left arm, is that you?

What in the world happened here?

(all talking)

- No, it has just been a matter of putting in place

a tried and true, there's nothing magical about what we do,

nothing particularly different about what we do

that other organizations do.

We have very effective special events, we have a solid

professional who handles foundations in government.

Someone who handles marketing and corporate fundraising

and a very strong person in major gifts.

We have built and enhanced

the board tremendously, we have effective leadership

at the development steering committee level

- [Woman In Brown] Of the board.

- of the board,

and we have simply gotten out there

and asked for bigger gifts.

When I first came I looked at all the proposals

and they typically said we're a young organization,

we're in our infancy, we're doing great things

in historic preservation, great things in horticulture,

won't you help us?

And everybody said you're darn right, here's $500.

And I said you see these proposals,

forget it, no more proposals like that.

We are a serious organization we need a $150,000

for the following project you put a budget in,

you act like you're the public library,

you act like the your Lincoln Center,

and the gifts become commensurate with the kind of posture

that you present publicly and it has worked.

Two things have happened, the average gift size

from our existing donors has gone up tremendously.

And then we have attracted a host of new donors.

So that in the first 23 months of a five year campaign

we're in the midst of, I was brought on

to conduct a 50 million dollar capital campaign,

in the first three months we raised the 22 million 5,

so we're doing very well, and I predict we'll have one more

relatively easy year, and then it gets tougher.

That's how campaigns go, but my goal is

that at the end of the five years

we set at a different point than we were before,

so that you don't drop down

to the level of annual giving that you had pre-campaign.

But you're at a different level.

And what we're doing particularly with

corporations when we go to them and say

we are in a campaign will you make

a significant leadership bellwether gift?

We also say please preserve the annual gift if you can.

So that the model really

is give a six-figure one-time gift to

the campaign which may be paid over

several years, but commit to us if you can,

that your five, 10, 25 annual support will also come in

and many of the corporations have responded that way,

that's the ideal, because then you know that you

have that locked in the future.

- What's the trigger,

what you donate a stone to them in the new building or?

- [Woman In Blue] It's very tough.

- Donor recognition is important also.

- My background

is with medical centers and there it's easy you can put

a plaque on a room, or a machine, or anything,

it's much harder in the park.

You don't want the park to look like a graveyard,

by the same token the more you attract donors

of significance the more those donors expect some kind

of recognition, well you may not have to

recognize a gift of the at the $5,000 level,

you sure have to do something for

your million dollar donor, unfortunately

we have more at that level than ever, so it really.

(laughter)

Fortunate.

- [Man In Suit] You could be so fortunate.

- Fortunately, so we have had to be artful about

finding ways that we can recognize donors,

whether it's through literature,

or in the park with a paving stone in

the ground or something on a rock, but it.

- Speaking of that I was with him this morning,

we went and looked, we have a paving stone in the ground

but the inside lettering, all of it was filling

up with dirt, and so you could,

oh my God, this nice, sweeping subtle technique.

So we're now in the process of redoing that plaque

for the donor, I mean the donor deserves to have

name recognition, it's just that you

wanted to be able to read the name,

it has to be legible on the plaque, so anyway,

there are these kinds of problems,

but they're very pleasant problems really, and what she's

saying is that we don't want the park to

look like a cemetery, you can't put big markers,

but there are ways that we can set into the paving,

or on a park bench, or on a fountain, you can make an

inscription on it, there are places for

very tasteful donor recognition.

I would like to back up just a moment

and say that the Conservancy was founded

as a partnership with the Department of Parks.

I am the administrator, I report to

Commissioner Stern who in turn reports

to the mayor, so we are as I said a mayoral agency.

I'm part of city government, but as the one of the founders

of the Conservancy and as its executive head

I have this other job, and when we founded

the Conservancy back in 1980

the mission was to get the public

to think about the park as more than a park,

I mean, what are parks?

Urban parks, they're recreation, they're open space,

a traditional definition of parks but,

there are also other things as well there,

like museums, there're collections,

there're collections of trees and public sculpture,

and beautiful things, which you have to

realize about this park that makes it

different perhaps from from any other

park in the world is it's a venue for activities.

I mean on the scale that

just probably doesn't happen anywhere else.

I mean everyone, whether you're

Simon and Garfunkel, you know making your

reunion come back, or it's the June 10th peace rally,

I mean it is the place people want to come.

- [Photographer] That's good.

Not too much.

Shawn go back, Shawn go back, that's good.

That's very nice.

- [Man] Music.

(upbeat music)

Action.

(upbeat music)

- [Woman] Some of them say peace now, some of them say

- [Man] And it's selling?

- Can they accept donations for the T-shirts?

- No, there's no selling.

- Nobody accepts donations for T-shirts, if someone

comes over and says I want a T-shirt for 50 cents, say no.

- Then they go outside the park, take their chances.

- Okay, then that means that we're going

to go in with a truck.

- Do we let anybody else come here and

sell T-shirts without a permit?

- No.

- Same thing for them.

(talking)

- [Man] I don't think so.

- We can go in with the wrap truck.

- [Man With Gray Hair] Do it now, do it now, 'cause

the longer you wait the longer it's gonna take.

- You want to come down with us?

- Sure.

What is it?

What is the issue?

- [Ranger] The issue sir is that we have T-shirts,

we have literature.

- [Man With Gray Hair] No good, no good.

Are they for sale?

- [Woman In Pink] No.

- Are they for free?

Somebody wants one will they be given one for free.

- [Woman With Short Hair] If they don't give a donation

then they can have it, but a donation of whatever size.

- Suggested donation is $15.

- Don't do it for any groups here, there was

a permitted group that came into the park with the people

breaking the rockets, the bombs, that's it, nothing else.

- Yes sir.

- [Man With Gray Hair] And all this stuff that's hanging

- It's all coming down.

- [Man With Gray Hair] in the trees, has to go.

- [Ranger] You are allowing the regular shirt

of the day to be sold.

- [Man] Yes.

- How can you say that one shirt is okay to be sold?

- No, no, no I'll tell you why.

The organizers of the event when we negotiated with them

they said these are the items that are gonna be sold.

These are the items that we want allowed to be sold.

They showed us a button, they showed us a T-shirt,

we agreed to that, that's the only thing we agreed to.

So everything else, you were misinformed, but it wasn't

by the parks department.

- But I mean the parks department does allow

for those shirts to be,

- [Ranger] Yes.

- that were negotiated ahead of time.

- [Ranger] It was done at contract.

It wasn't done here, it wasn't done at this moment,

it was done when we sat down and negotiated this whole event

so I'm sorry, and like I said it's in your best interest

not to sell them, because they will be confiscated.

- Do you know what the event is about?

- [Ranger] I know what the event is about.

- You know a lot of people are here.

- I understand that ma'am, but you have to

understand our position, we sat down

in good faith and negotiated this entire event.

We came here, we found something

that we didn't expect, we cannot allow it.

If they would have told us ahead of time it

would have been negotiated, but at this

point it's too late, if it's not literature

it cannot be sold.

- It's unbelievable, unbelievable,

it's absolutely unbelievable.

- [Ranger] A lot of these people are generally upset,

they were told they could do it.

- Why doesn't the city bend, that's what

I would like to know, why doesn't the city bend?

Well don't you have compassion or any

kind of humanity, no one is doing this

for personal gain, we're all doing this

because we believe in peace and very strongly too.

This is just outrageous to me,

you know this is a peace event, it's not

personal vendors personally profiting from this thing.

I mean you know something, I'm always reminded of the

Nuremberg trials where the Nazi stood up

and said, hey, I was just doing my job.

When do you guys stop saying but the colonel said?

- [Man] Nobody said.

- No, that's what I heard I heard that you negotiated,

who is this the person that negotiated this thing?

- The people who put together the demonstration,

when they applied for their permit they were told

what could and what could not be done in the park today.

These are one of the things that

we said could not be done.

- [Man In Red] Why?

- Because we don't allow vending in the park.

That's it sir.

- [Man In Red] there is absolutely no vending in the park,

none?

- We have legal vendors in the park.

- [Man In Red] Why isn't this a legal vending event?

- Because your organization didn't make it one today sir.

- And therefore you're gonna follow the letter of the law

and you're going to make sure that all of this is destroyed.

What's being attempted today, it's a beautiful day,

of course it is, this is part of the color

and the character of this event!

- The point is the agreement was made,

when you organize a rally such as this,

you come to the parks department, you make an agreement.

And when they came they didn't say

we want to allow vending of all things.

They said we want to allow vending of literature.

There is a right to sell literature,

we couldn't if we wanted to,

which we don't, prevent the sale of literature at a rally.

But they did not say you want the sell teddy bears,

we want to sell earrings, we want sell necklaces.

If they had done those things

they would have been in the same position as everybody else

who does vending in Central Park

of negotiating sale agreements, a possessions agreement

with with the revenue deposit.

They could have gone that route, they did not go that route.

They then went and sold you, essentially sold you the right

to set up a table, right?

Which they hadn't negotiated,

they had negotiated for something else, now to be angry

at the parks department for.

- Yes, because at this late date we weren't in the wrong,

they may have been in the wrong, but there's something

called flexibility.

- [Man With Curly Hair] Why aren't you angry with them?

Why aren't you angry with them?

- At who?

I don't see any problem with sitting down now

and negotiating a new thing.

What's the problem?

- Central Park has about 100 activities a year.

Every one of them wants to set off literature sales.

In addition to that any number of organizations

would like to do it, even when there are no events.

So there's a policy for protecting the situation

in the park, which is a park which is meant for everybody,

and not just for this demonstration.

- Okay, how is the park being protected now?

- How is the park being protected?

- Yeah, by eliminating all these vendors,

how is it being protected?

- It's protected by that policy, alright.

Of not permitting unlimited sale of items which

are commodities, that teddy bear is a commodity.

- Okay, so ask it to be removed, that's all.

We'll remove it, but you're asking all of these things.

We have T-shirts that's what that is,

we came here because we have peace items.

It's possible that you can sit down now

and renegotiate this thing, because okay,

you want the teddy bears out, I can see,

but to eliminate, we came here because

we're selling peace items.

- The organizer of this rally, who this was discussed with

about 20 minutes ago.

- [Man In Red] And?

- And she agreed.

- [Man In Red] She agreed what?

- That no items were to be sold except literature.

- [Man In Red] There should be at least, I think

you should give us at least one chance to.

- Why don't you start by talking with the organizers

of the rally you paid $35 to.

- Three-way discussion because the discussions of

negotiation for solution could never come

just between us because there is a missing link

which is the organizers.

- [Curly Haired Man] Exactly right.

- And if we're gonna sit down.

- [Man With Curly Hair] You don't know who they are?

- Yeah we do that woman with a green shirt.

But I think we should talk as a three party.

- I never thought this could happen where I live

in this country,

this is Russia.

This isn't America.

(crying)

Where are the people for freedom in this country?

They're closed down, they're closing these people down.

- [Woman In Yellow] I know, there must be

something we can do.

- They don't have proper papers, but where does

this happen in America?

- Well it happens all the time,

but the question is these these T-shirts and

buttons are form of political inspiration,

what's happening here is suppression of that.

Who knows what kind of distant thing,

as far as we're concerned other people

who are with political groups, the literature here,

these people should be absolutely

be allowed to stay, this is outrageous

that this is happening, this is confiscating

means of political expression here.

- [Crying Woman] I can't believe this is happening

in America though.

- [Woman In Red] In America.

- [Crying Woman] I mean I don't expect it,

it happens though.

- [Woman In Red] It happens when they decide what laws

are going to be enforced, what laws are going to be passed.

- Well where's the mayor?

how does one get hold of the mayor for something like this?

Who does one find?

- [Woman In Red] I think we should try all kinds

of avenues, but I think it's mostly if people know

that other people here are really

incensed about this, really incensed about this.

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(cheers)

- None of this can be done if we don't have

the money to do it, the city gives us some.

But we have got to raise the other

and we've got to raise it from the buildings

from 57th Street up West Side and south,

and so we're going to talk to each one of the buildings

Pat has talked to a great many but we're going

to come back at you because it's gonna

be time for us to start collecting

those who have not given.

Because what what Betsy's in the process of doing

right now, what I want to have in your hands by September,

what we've talked about is having a plan,

so that you'll see what's going to happen all the way

up on the east side, all the way

on the west side and on the south,

approximately how much it's going to cost us,

and what we need from the private sector from the buildings

along the perimeter to get it accomplished.

Because I think that's the important thing

not yet started there, so a lot has been done,

but an awful lot more has to be done, and I know your

people have questions, Pat and I'd both be happy

to come and talk to the board if you need it,

if you can do it without us

that's fine, but we're here, and we're available,

we just wanted to put faces,

but Pat if you have anything else to say?

- Well one thing I think is important is

that so many of the people I've spoken to

had no idea what the Perimeter Association did

and they all felt that from the wall out

was the city, and that it had nothing to do

with Central Park, and what I think is important

for all of you to stress to your building is that

it is what your building looks out at on the park.

It is the curb, the sidewalk, the wall, the benches,

and all the perimeter trees, and planting, and shrubs

which have to be trimmed, and sprayed,

and so it's much more than they realize I think.

And also all the entrances.

We say it's the frame to a beautiful picture

and the picture most many

pictures really need a frame to make it

as beautiful as it should be, and the

perimeter is the is the beautiful frame

of this absolutely glorious picture that

we're so lucky to have in this wonderful

city of ours, and I see it every day,

especially when I come here, it's a treat.

But please tell them all the things you know,

from the tree, the bench, the wall,

and it's a very important part of the park,

and one that they probably look at more than anything else

is the perimeter of the park, the buildings on the park.

So we hope you will spread the word to your board,

to all the members in your building, and to any other

building, or anyone you know in another building

that hasn't become a member.

Any ideas or suggestions, we're available to go speak

at your board meetings, or whatever we can do.

- I feel

we should go a little beyond where we are now and what

do you think of each building hosting

either a luncheon, or a little cocktail reception

for a group of us so we can

explain and show this short film,

do you think that would be advantageous?

Because we really want to get everything to perfection,

and the one question we had earlier were the park benches

and I think that the way to get everyone interested

in keeping it perfect and

we've learned it from inside the park,

is to keep it pristine, because people have

a respect for it, and people didn't

believe that originally.

But you don't see a lot of people loitering,

you don't see a lot of people with the graffiti now

because they're keeping that perfect.

And I think if we get our sidewalks

really spruced up, really beautiful,

we're going to find that people are proud again,

and what is life about if it's not being proud

of who you are and what you're doing

and what's happening to your city, because and I think that

they're proving that in the local schools

by taking these programs into local schools

is making the children excited about keeping things nice.

And perhaps of each building can give a reception for us,

or have a block captain, and have a reception for us

so that we can explain to them, and create the enthusiasm

that's so important to keep the city excited about itself

and proud of itself,

I may be totally wrong but to me that's New York,

and to me that's what we're all about

in being great Americans and being interested in helping

our fellow man, I know it's the reason

I've worked with charity is to try

to make things a little bit better,

and that's selfish because I like to see

things nice and wonderful, and I hope all

of you feel that way and, am I wrong in

that feeling, do you think that would be

the way to go about it?

- I have another suggestion that we thought about

last couple of years,

not just assessing the buildings,

a $1,000 a building around the perimeter,

but to go in and get each apartment in that building,

assess them the way they do on the park.

Now that would really, instead of getting $1,000,

for instance in our building we have 85 apartments.

Just think of what the revenue we would get

if after we get, our idea was I remember

Laurance Rockefeller when he started this whole program

his idea was the first two years get 'em interested

with $1,000 a building.

After you get 'em interested then you can go

in and get the needle, and get

apartment by apartment in that building.

So that would be unbelievable when you

think of the number of the buildings up and down.

- But more than money,

it's the enthusiasm, it's the excitement,

it's the team spirit and it's our front yard.

How many people have a front yard

and you don't have to pay for mowing, and I go

through the headaches of it you see in

the other room I have some roses and

things and the spraying of that, and the headaches,

and here we have it all right there for us

because Betsy started it 10 years ago,

and it has been a miraculous move and I talk

to people, like a couple of weeks ago in Europe

and they said I can't believe,

I went to New York the other day

and I walked through Central Park

and what's happened there in the last couple of years

is absolutely miraculous, how is that coming about?

And I said well there's a lady named Betsy Barlow

and there's a few of us who are working,

trying to make it perfect.

- [Woman] 50 years older and it's been a co-op.

(chatter)

Got to have the space, and now I can't imagine.

- [Man] You never do without it.

- [Woman] I cannot imagine.

- [Woman] I can't either.

- [Male] We've thought about moving to get

a bigger apartment, 'cause you can move a few blocks

and get twice the apartment for the same money.

- That's true.

- [Man In Suit] And we say no, I'm gonna open the window

and there's gonna be somebody else over

there looking at me, or a wall or something.

- No it's true it just makes such a difference.

And all the activities, the number of people that are

in the park using it for so many,

painters, and joggers, and bicyclers,

and people who sail their boats, and ice skating,

and the roller skating, and the swimming,

the Lasker pool, I mean there's so much that's beautiful.

And wonderful, and it's such an outlet for people

who can't get away from New York,

all the children's things it's real exciting.

- [Shorter Woman] Well our children use it constantly.

They use it everyday.

- Isn't that nice?

- [Shorter Woman] Especially these past.

- And now I got a program

about all the operas, and the marionette programs

and the concerts, and it's just an endless feast.

We're really blessed to have it.

- [Shorter Woman] We cross-country ski in the park,

this winter it was really like being at a resort,

it was just beautiful the first day,

and actually all weekend, where just

really like being away.

- [Man In Suit] Almost like Vermont, right?

- [Shorter Woman] In some ways I think

it was better than Vermont.

- Yeah 'cause you didn't have to drive.

- [Man In Suit] 'Cause you were 20 minutes away

from the apartment, that's why.

- I was across the street.

- It's true, can you imagine New York without that park?

- [Man In Suit] I can't but it's amazing that it has

survived in its size, and it's almost

constant state of condition all these years

with all the pressures of New York

to development and everything.

- But what's amazing is that anyone had the foresight

that much space available when the city was small,

way back when.

That was real foresight,

it's very beautiful, I love it.

No, people are very responsive because they to feel joy

to have the park here so.

- I don't think we could survive without it

especially with young children, I think it's really,

- [Woman In Glasses] Essential.

- It is essential for us.

- [Male] Well, our building is just the opposite,

it's full of old people, real old people.

- [Woman In Glasses] And they enjoy.

- [Male] And they use it almost more than the children do,

every day they go to the park,

and they use the benches, they walk around,

and I mean it's almost like

therapy for these for these people.

- Well, we walked up to the Conservancy Garden today

and there were so many people sitting on the benches

and under the trees because it was nice and cool there.

You think of people who don't have air conditioning

and don't and have the joy of going to a place like that

that is so beautiful with

its fountain, and flowers, and trees.

- [Male] That pond there is a very nice pond.

- Beautiful, beautiful.

- That's a gorgeous park,

I was telling Betsy when

we came in we took my mother-in-law

there on Mother's Day and she can't believe

that there's a whole lot that's nice

about New York, but she loves her garden

and we took her in there and she was really astounded.

This is wonderful and beautiful.

You don't feel like you're in New York anymore.

- [Woman In Glasses] That's true.

- And it's maintained beautifully.

- If you walk out in the middle of the park

you can easily forget

that you know that the bus is trying to run over you

three blocks away.

- Well, today we went

from the Great Hill and took a real tour,

and we went but in most places we couldn't see one building

it was as though you were in a forest

in the middle of Vermont.

- But there's even another sense

my husband and I used to play tennis

before the kids were born and to play up

at the courts at 96th Street and having

all these trees around you and still see the city

and think, I'm playing tennis in the middle of the city.

- And horseback riding, horseback riding and tennis.

Hi, she's sweet.

- She's a darling,

- I bet she likes the park.

(chatter)

- [Male] People want to know what happens to the money,

'cause you get so many requests

for money in this city, that's the problem.

You can't turn around with somebody has

their hand out wanting money.

- I also there's a bit of

fear even though the Conservancy is

privately funded that this really is the

city and we all know how the city throws money away.

- That's the nicest thing about the Conservancy

we use the money, see everything your fear,

- But that's why it's important

to show specifically what's been done,

because if people have the impression that the city's

somehow involved, they might think

well this is you know who knows what's gonna happen?

- Now what's gonna happen?

I have to go meet my husband.

so I'll see you all.

- [Male] Speaking of husbands.

Nice to meet you.

- [Shorter Woman] Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you, and you'll let us know

'cause we would like to talk to the board individually.

- [Woman In Red] They say the Westside

should be first the Historical Society.

- Okay, great.

- So I'll talk to Bobby, okay?

- Bye bye.

- Bye bye, thanks Tony.

That's great.

- Look right here.

Look here, let's hear it come on!

(cheers)

One more time!

(cheers)

Thank you.

- [Woman With Camera] Ready?

One more.

(upbeat music)

- [Man] One is please start moving backward,

we have too many people in front of the starting line.

- [Woman] A man who needs no introduction

but certainly worth waiting on,

ladies and gentlemen to start our race

the mayor of the city of New York Mayor Ed Koch.

(cheers)

- Thank you very much I came up from

City Hall where we're doing the budget

because for me this is number one,

this is the best race that we have all year around.

I'm not saying that to make you feel good,

it's just the way it looks.

The size of it being in Central Park,

so God bless you, I'm glad to be with you.

(cheers)

Take your own time for the run.

Get set, on your mark.

(upbeat music)

Good luck.

(cheers)

- [Woman] Okay ladies, I need you to move back already

because you're getting too excited.

I need you to move back a little.

- I gotta get out of here.

- One more, one more.

- [Woman] Ladies, I want you to create a center aisle

so the mayor can walk through the middle.

- That's all, I got to go.

(cheers)

- [Woman] Make room for the mayor.

(cheers)

- [Koch] I've never been a love object before.

- But they love you.

- [Koch] Of 5,000 women.

- They love you.

(cheers)

- It's me, hi,

oh hi Peter.

(cheers)

Hi.

- I think what you're seeing here are Mr. Brian's

renditions of a renovation for the house

incorporating the concept of this beautiful house

that we now presently have which is perfectly sited.

This house the architect that did this knew exactly

what he was doing, he sited this house so that you can view

the entire Central Park tennis courts.

It was known as says that he as the architect

from the parks department has told us

who are moving it up five feet closer to the tennis courts

so that you can sit there and have tennis balls

bounce off your head, now if we have to

move the house in order to give a new perspective,

or to build a new house in order to say

we've done something different,

I think that's rather bad planning.

I think this house is sited just perfect,

just the way it is, and the architect of 60 years ago

knew how to site this house.

- If I were voting to demolish the tennis house

I would work clear and convincing answers

to some essential questions.

One, why is it necessary to tear down the tennis house?

In today's New York Newsday Parks Commissioner Spain

is reported as saying the current building is quote,

"an eyesore, a relic, inefficient, outmoded and out of

character for Central Park."

end quote, does this convince you?

An eyesore and relic for whom?

1100 tennis players have petitioned

against the destruction of the house?

They are demanding proper maintenance of the tennis courts,

they do not play tennis inside a building,

even if it was constructed of 18 karat gold.

Second, how much of the taxpayers money

will have to be spent for a new building?

Has a responsible public official

responded to this essential question?

Can this board, in good conscience say that a new

tennis building is in the public interest?

Both for tennis and non tennis players

would it not be wiser to the general public

especially, to repair and to renovate a perfectly sound

and attractive structure whose picture

can be viewed right here?

Thank you for your consideration.

(applause)

- Again, let me ask you, that if you are going to repeat

what other speakers have said

instead of taking your three minutes,

and if you just say, I agree with the last speaker,

it would be helpful to the board.

- I don't think it's right to use private

and public funds for unnecessary projects.

I sincerely hope that you agree with me and with

a vast majority of tennis players who use the facilities,

please say no to this wasteful proposal.

Our borough and its citizens have many glaring, valid needs

for assistance, we cry out for the homeless,

make houses for them, we tennis players do not need

a new tennis house when the present facility

is adequately filling the needs of the playing public.

Just like to add one more thing,

and that is that I personally am

a product of public education,

public recreation and park programs,

and I have a terrible feeling deep inside of me

that tennis in the park is going to revert

to an elite situation which tennis has always been.

We'd like to see the house remain as it is,

we'd like to see programs to teach

tennis to kids in the city, to adults in

the in the city, keep it a public thing,

don't make it an elite thing, tennis in this country

needs to be a public thing.

Our country needs that and,

(bell ringing)

Thanks an awful lot.

(applause)

- Personal statements are fine but if you're really going

to repeat the same arguments that we've heard

pro or con, let's just save it because we have

a long agenda tonight, Marian or Mary Ann Schumann,

you want to speak now?

- I just want to express my feelings about

the tennis house I've been here living

in this community for approximately 32 years.

I am an activist not only in tennis,

somehow some of the people here

that have been speaking to give the impression

that all we do is play tennis.

I've been in the peace movement

I've been activists in political clubs.

I belong to the club my political club

for as long a time or longer in this community,

I've been a worker and a peace person,

so the tennis has been my one activity

and it's been very important to me and the park is

important to me and the park for people is important to me.

So I ask you all to have consideration and understand that

this is not something separate from the gentrification

of the rest of the city.

It has to do with the gentrification of the whole the park

is part of our city, and here we do have

a chance to say something and you do have a chance

to say something

because our borough president expressed the desire

to get your feelings expressed here and he will accept

those feelings so be aware of that.

- When I left the tennis courts this morning

a group of students, I happen to be on sabbatical but,

these students knew I play tennis and a class came

to the park to take advantage

a clinic that was offered for the children.

It was a heartening sight,

to see the future citizens and future tennis players

taking advantage of the courts which should be

well maintained but with no need for a fancy clubhouse.

I'm only going to repeat that the previous speakers

have covered the courts very well.

- [Man] Put the mic like that.

- This way, oh.

(laughter)

Teacher needs to be taught.

They covered the courts very well,

and they made all the points necessary about no need

for a new clubhouse, however, they did not stress enough

the need for maintaining the courts,

that's where we do our playing

not inside the house, one other point

I would like to add, above and beyond tennis

and the courts et cetera,

that's a constitutional issue, in the way things went.

A definite suggestion was made that there be

a feasibility study as to whether

it's a renovation and rejuvenation, of the course,

of the house was feasible.

- [Man] That's it m'am.

- [Woman] Thank you.

(applause)

- BRCK is that right sir?

- I hate to take issue with Commissioner Stern when he said

that this bill in today's Newsday

he said that the tennis house is a relic

of the Walker administration, inefficient,

outmoded, and out of character for Central Park,

well, if it is, you fix it.

You don't tear it down.

- I cannot understand why,

well I can understand

before the problem with the new tennis house before,

and I tried to understand those who are against it,

was that the site was in the wrong place,

now the site has been changed to where everyone

seemed to want it, and I can't understand members

of community board, why there are objections

to having an attractive, pleasant tennis house,

and why we have to have this ugly block house,

cement block house that was done by Jimmy Walker,

that has no redeeming value of any kind?

And if you don't believe it just come on

over and see it it's just an awful, awful place.

So I also would like to see the courts kept well and so on.

I am concerned about there being shut down,

but I can understand why we're opposed

to having a new tennis court, tennis facility?

- I tried to explain briefly, because you've I'm sure

you've heard a lot about this from a lot of people

why we think the new building

is an enormous improvement over the old building.

And I think the drawings have shown,

make that point very clearly.

We want a tennis house for the future,

we want a tennis house that's accessible,

we want a tennis house with

equal opportunities for the sexes, we want a tennis house

where people can convene,

and meet and open, and you know an area,

in ample areas instead of being

relegated to the locker rooms to do that,

or the porch, and that we want something

that will be an adornment and a thing of beauty

in Central Park rather than a relic of the 1930s,

the early 1930s, which is it is neither Olmsted nor Moses

it is a period which is not noted for any distinction

in park design, and certainly this build.

Although, I'm sure it served its purposes at the time

and provided many happy hours for many people,

and deserves an honorable interment.

The new replacement will provide even more joy

for more people for a longer period of time,

and I predict that if it is built,

and I very much hope it's built,

and I urge this board to approve it that even the people

who are opposed to it will come to use it,

and enjoy it in the years to come,

will even be reconciled to this enormous

improvement for the park.

- What amount of public funds do you anticipate

will be put into the budget to supplement the private funds?

What proportion and what sum specifically?

- No one can be certain

of the exact cost of any public improvement

until bids are offered and bids are received

and then you you're in with a fairly close parameter.

I would anticipate roughly

a 50/50 sharing of the course

between the private sector and city government.

- No matter what the cost is at this point we have been told

at the Conservancy most recently is that

there is 1.5 million dollars in private funds.

- There is a private gift which is projected for this

of 2 million dollars, that is an

enormous amount of money to put into a public facility

if it turns out to cost more

I'm sure they'll be an undertaking

to raise more, it depends for example,

on what the additional cost, we know

what it turns out to be the cause of the additional costs.

But can I promise, first was that such excesses

be met by private funds and not by public money?

No I can't, and I would be nutty if I did

unless it were my money that I was undertaking to spend.

Okay, well we think the new building nestled into the slope

as it is is much more congenial,

to the old building which just

stands up straight and stark out of the environment

and was designed without respect to it,

- [Man] You wish to say something that has not yet

been said in this argument, you wish to add something?

- [Woman With White Purse] More forcefully.

- [Members] Oh come on.

- [Man] Well, could I suggest that the force is not needed,

repetition isn't really needed.

- Well the thing is this new building has received a lot of

negative talking rather than positive,

the place is horrible,

it's a dungeon inside, the tent,

the surface of the courts are beautiful,

you have 31 hard true tennis courts out there,

36, they are beautiful.

(talking)

whatever, they're 30 some odd hard true tennis courts,

they're beautiful, on the East River,

and tennis parks, private facilities have

as beautiful tennis courts as you have

right here in Central Park, gorgeous.

The tennis house is atrocious, atrocious,

the locker rooms are dungeons,

I wouldn't take a shower there, I'd be afraid

I'd catch some kind of a disease.

(groans)

The toilets are terrible.

The place is horrible.

When you sit on the benches outside

the railing in front has been pushed back

for 50 years, so it's gonna fall over pretty soon.

The whole building's gonna fall apart,

- [Woman] Fix it.

- It's been used, and used well.

- [Man] You know you're not being very nice, nobody did that

when the other side spoke, and let's be polite,

and let's be fair.

- The building has been used and used well

God bless it, put something else up now.

How do you know

what it's gonna cost to take that place apart?

And it's not even worth taking apart,

you'll enjoy a new facility, there's money for it,

it's not gonna take away anything from anybody else,

you have gorgeous tennis courts out there,

why shouldn't we here in New York City,

why shouldn't we have a nice place to play tennis,

why begrudge yourself?

We'll all have such a good time.

(applause)

(talking)

- If they can use it there are many, many

diamonds that they play baseball, softball,

the little leagues and the baseball and softball all timers,

also that are very pretty bad conditions there,

that money should be allocated for

those diamonds in case, if they don't use it.

(applause)

(chatter)

(upbeat music)

(cheers)

- [MC] And here comes the the Serene Motorcycle Club.

(cheers)

We're getting ready to kick off

the 1988 Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade!

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("On Broadway")

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♪ And steps around the heart of it ♪

♪ New York, New York ♪

♪ I wanna wake up in a city, that doesn't sleep ♪

♪ And find your king of the hill ♪

♪ Head over heels ♪

♪ Cream of the crop at the top of the heap ♪

♪ Your small town blues, they're melting away ♪

♪ Come make a brand new start of it, in Old New York ♪

♪ If I can make it there ♪

♪ I'll make it anywhere ♪

♪ Come on ♪

♪ New York, New York ♪

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- Ready Johnny, Johnny!

- [Johnny] Yes.

- Great.

- Here we go.

(talking)

Ready to shoot, here we go.

- Celine, and Joey, be very sincere

and real with those lines about thank you and stuff.

- [Johnny] Guys and let's keep these lights clear.

- Jenny why are you hitting Celine?

Why did you hit him?

Be nice to him, he's a prince.

Before you get up you have to say Zoe,

and she gets up with you.

- [Woman] Spread out that way.

push her.

Wake up, look forward, beep, beep!

Look forward, get in the line,

that's perfect now stay where you are

that's what you have to get to, okay?

- Be that close to the person next to you, okay kids?

Very, very good, I like you, I like to be

on a cast with dancers.

No, you can cut them more, go more to the right.

- [PA] Speed, 39 Baker take three, camera A only.

- [Man] Playback.

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- Oh thank you Lily, now I am really living.

Zoe come, I would like to show you.

- [Coppola] Cut.

Kids that was good.

- [Prince] Was it perfect?

- Well, what you could do for me is after you say

now I'm really living, make it more believable,

you're still talking like it's more, like

grammar school production of grease is there any way

that they camera can get to

Abu earlier so that when they get up and go

we still see the tale of the little girls going away?

Do you think that the girls can stretch

out their exit so it lasts longer?

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You're kidding, you're gonna have so much interesting stuff

and not have enough time to get it, we lost all the morning.

We didn't get any shots at all, very frustrating day though.

- [Vendor] Nice cold beer, cold beer.

Nice cold Budweiser.

Nice cold Budweiser.

- Chinese food, pizza pies, spaghetti and meatballs,

ice cold Bud, ice cold Heineken.

Duck a L'Orange.

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♪ Party hunting, the bass is right ♪

♪ Booty shaking all around ♪

♪ Poured my drink, now I'm getting down ♪

♪ Getting down ♪

♪ Say ho ♪

♪ You say it ♪

♪ Say ho ho ♪

♪ Ho ho ♪

♪ Say ho ♪

♪ Ho ♪

♪ On the floor rocking to the beat ♪

♪ Rocking, baby ♪

♪ Oh wee, you sure look sweet ♪

♪ Fine young lady standing by ♪

♪ Come here ♪

♪ Come on, baby, look me in my eye ♪

♪ Just got paid ♪

♪ It's Friday night ♪

♪ Party hunting, the bass is right ♪

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