I was 11 years old! I just looked it up in the NYTimes, it was completed in the fall of 1973, it always stuck in my memory, helping to break up the colorful tiles and placing them in the cement. I still can spot the patch of yellow that I helped place in the northwest corner. I live in Washington DC now, but mom still lives at 122st, so I still come back to check up her. Thanks!
@len1526 WOW, what a wonderful story!!!! Thanks so much for sharing it, and it's wonderful to know that you're still able to come back and visit your mom and see your handiwork. We enjoy it very much!
wow lived the down hill by grants tomb back in the 70ths we used to play around it like hand ball racket ball and touch football and ride our bikes and there was lots graffiti back then and the had concerts and movies there the riverside gang kids back in the 70ths we know who we were ronald hecky Johnathon and david matthew jumpy and maxim that was our place to play riverside park grants tomb was the best in the 70ths no security guards were there
Wow, it's still there! I was one of the children who participated in making this (some 35 years ago) I'm amazed it's still there. I wonder if I'd recognize my own work.... have to go visit it. I'll post a reply vid when I do.
Rebecca, many thanks for watching and for your comments. It's an amazing accomplishment to see children's work combined with a national monument like Grant's Tomb. It's also controversial; we've received email from folks who think the benches are ugly and disrespectful to the tomb. Bottom line: you can't please everyone and art of all kinds is something you either love or hate, with rarely a middle ground. Put me down as LOVING the benches; I think they add energy and fun to the park. Great job!
I was 11 years old! I just looked it up in the NYTimes, it was completed in the fall of 1973, it always stuck in my memory, helping to break up the colorful tiles and placing them in the cement. I still can spot the patch of yellow that I helped place in the northwest corner. I live in Washington DC now, but mom still lives at 122st, so I still come back to check up her. Thanks!
len1526 11 months ago
@len1526 WOW, what a wonderful story!!!! Thanks so much for sharing it, and it's wonderful to know that you're still able to come back and visit your mom and see your handiwork. We enjoy it very much!
westend104 11 months ago
wow lived the down hill by grants tomb back in the 70ths we used to play around it like hand ball racket ball and touch football and ride our bikes and there was lots graffiti back then and the had concerts and movies there the riverside gang kids back in the 70ths we know who we were ronald hecky Johnathon and david matthew jumpy and maxim that was our place to play riverside park grants tomb was the best in the 70ths no security guards were there
MrAsilva125 1 year ago
AW! I used to live down the street, and used to spend hours on those benches :)
lilianeAgra 3 years ago
Thanks for watching and commenting; if I lived in the neighborhood, I'd be sitting on them and hanging out a lot, too.
westend104 3 years ago
Wow, it's still there! I was one of the children who participated in making this (some 35 years ago) I'm amazed it's still there. I wonder if I'd recognize my own work.... have to go visit it. I'll post a reply vid when I do.
Thanks for posting this.
Rebecca
rebknell 3 years ago
Rebecca, many thanks for watching and for your comments. It's an amazing accomplishment to see children's work combined with a national monument like Grant's Tomb. It's also controversial; we've received email from folks who think the benches are ugly and disrespectful to the tomb. Bottom line: you can't please everyone and art of all kinds is something you either love or hate, with rarely a middle ground. Put me down as LOVING the benches; I think they add energy and fun to the park. Great job!
westend104 3 years ago