898 Classon Avenue
1939
New Yorkers have long sought shade in parks like this one on Eastern Parkway.
Felix Adler, professor and social reformer, wrote of his youth in the 19th-century city: “I can remember, how keenly, as a boy, I delighted in the mere sight of a few shade trees, with their faint suggestion of woods and fields, and how tolerable, on hot summer days, they seemed to make the ugly streets in this city in which they stood.”
Sources:
Annual Report of the Tree Planting Association of New York City (New York: The Association, 1907), 21.
Shade in the Melting Metropolis