Fort Tryon — Attraction in New York

Having won Monopoly in a past life, I'd thought I had conquered the ellicit draw of domination in urban settings. So shooketh was I when I ascended the tarried peaks of Fort Tryon, the topological epitome of what-they-don't-know-won't-hurt-them, coined after the British general of the same name and William. It was, in a word, as contentious as a Buzzfeed quiz that asks readers whether each quote was written by Shakespeare or Taylor Swift.

The larger park was apparently "acquired" by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (most well known for being indistinguishable from his father but an utterly unique breed famously called "unrecognizable" by his grandfather) from the early 1900s. I sent sundry telegrams to the park service to ask what was meant by this terminology and can only pass onto my readers the assurance I received that the land was at every point in its exchange freely up for sale and of course Rockefeller like all real estate bros always forever paid a fair price and that is how the market works and he earned it and actually no we don't have open records of the sale but I'm sure that the families of the anonymous people who sold would be happy to speak with any interested parties if they were contacted directly STOP. At least one previous tenant was a millionaire so perhaps truth is real.

After restructuring this lush forest into greenery, Rockefeller then generously donated the land to the public and in so doing earned the reverence we owe him for this - the ultimate sacrifice. I even tracked a small sparrow who, for reasonable compensation, was ready and willing to follow in Rocky's steps with this testimony:

Stay still. Wait. Silence the parts of you that Thrill to make noise for the sake of motion, That match the momentum of the world to Stop the drop of drowning in the ocean. They can only ever float though they strive To reach reality on ev'ry dive And dive again, hoping this time they will Catch what they seek if they can stay alive But though currents are meant to sway and roam They cannot help but carry us back home.

His name?...

Fort Tryon Park is a public park located in the Hudson Heights and Inwood neighborhoods of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The 67-acre (27 ha) park is situated on a ridge in Upper Manhattan, close to the West's Hudson River. It extends mainly from 192nd Street in the south to Riverside Drive in the north and from Broadway in the east to the Henry Hudson Parkway in the west. The park's main entrance is at Margaret Corbin Circle, at the intersection of Fort Washington Avenue and Cabrini Boulevard. The local Lenape tribe knew Chquaesgeck and Dutch settlers as Lange Bergh (Long Hill). During the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Fort Washington was fought at the park's site. The area remained sparsely populated during the 19th century, but by the turn of the 20th century, it was the location of large country estates. Beginning in 1917, philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr., bought up several estates to create Fort Tryon Park. He engaged the Olmsted Brothers firm to design the park and hired James W. Dawson to create the planting plan. Rockefeller gave the land to the city in 1931, after two prior attempts to do so were unsuccessful, and the park was completed in 1935. Rockefeller also bought sculptor George Gray Barnard's collection of medieval art and gave it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. From 1935 to 1939, built the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park to house the collection. The park is built on a high Manhattan schist formation with igneous intrusions and glacial striations from the last Ice Age. The park's design included extensive plantings of various flora in the park's many gardens, including the Heather Garden, which was restored in the 1980s. Besides the gardens and the Cloisters, the park has extensive walking paths and meadows, with the Hudson and Harlem Rivers' views. Fort Tryon Park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and was designated a New York City Scenic...

Great for walking. Smooth trails and steps. Exercise groups around in the morning.

Originally inhabited by the Weckquaesgeek Tribe, who lived in the area until the early 17th century, this densely forested high ground at the northern end of Manhattan was “Lang Bergh” or Long Hill to the early Dutch colonists. The Continental Army called the strategic series of posts along the Hudson River “Fort Washington” during the summer of 1776, until Hessian mercenaries fighting for the British forced the troops to retreat. The British then renamed the area for Sir William Tryon (1729–1788), Major General and the last British governor of colonial New York.

Margaret Corbin (1751–1800Α), for whom the park’s drive and the circle near the entrance are named, took control of her fallen husband John’s cannon during the 1776 attack and was wounded during the clash. In 1977, the City Council named the drive in her honor.

During the 19th century, wealthy New Yorkers built elegant estates around the Fort Tryon area, the most notable being the house of Cornelius K.G. Billings, a wealthy horseman from Chicago. From 1901 to 1905, Billings reportedly spent more than $2 million building his Tryon Hall mansion. In 1909, Billings funded a stele erected at the apex of the park memorializing Corbin and the Continental Army’s defense of the site in honor of the Hudson Fulton...