A tour of Fort Tryon Park in New York City, page three.

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Not far from the Hudson River outlook is an old stone cottage. Some say that the cottage was the horse stable of C. K. G. Billings's estate which occupied a large part of the land forming the present day park. However, I have learned that the cottage is acutally a special-purpose building built as part of the park itself. Other parts of the estate include the strange columned outlook which can be seen while driving northward on the Henry Hudson Parkway.

Nowdays, the cottage houses the New Leaf Cafe, a very nice restaurant run by the New York Restoration Project, a charitable organization involved in improving the quality of life in neglected parts of New York.

The New Leaf Cafe up close.	Behind the New Leaf Cafe.

In a quiet corner of the park, which many people do not visit, the city has hidden this harsh example of modernist sculpture. Whose idea was it to hide this ugly, angular, cement turd here in the midst of one of Manhattan's most bucholic parks?

The ugly sculpture.

Like the eponymous neighborhood to the south, Fort Tryon Park is situated atop a large, rugged hill. Graceful stone walls define winding paths around steep drops and chasms. On one hillside, a stone lookout provides a view of the park below.

Graceful stone walls guide the walking paths around steep chasms.	The stone lookout provides a view to a solitary walker.

From one of the hillsides not far from the stone lookout, one can see the city to the north through the springtime trees.

The view of upper Manhattan (Inwood) and the Bronx to the north through the trees.

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