Last Wednesday, July 15, 2020, NYC Parks made their weekly Wednesday Walk Facebook Live Video in Isham Park! Walter Markham, the NYC Parks Gardener for Isham, is interviewed by video producer Adrian Sas about the great gardens he has designed for the park over the past five years:
https://www.facebook.com/nycparks/videos/303919740656133/
While the video is very spontaneous, it is also very effective communicating the beautiful design of the park which was created in the late 1930s by landscape architects Gilmore Clarke and Michael Rapuano under then NYC Parks Commissioner, Robert Moses.
Isham Park is graced by beautiful WPA stonework, in the form of simple walls and steps that frame and enhance the gardens discussed, which are also juxtaposed to open areas of lawn with stately, mature trees.
The triangle described by Walter is a signature feature of the paths of both Isham and its younger and much larger neighbor, Inwood Hill Park. Both parks were designed simultaneously and share triangular intersections as a feature. It is fun to locate the many triangulations during a walk on Inwood Hill. Some paths in the lower portion of Inwood Hill Park also end in semicircular openings that frame views, especially to the north and west of the Hudson River and the New Jersey Palisades.
In Isham Park, there are two circular terraces: one on the park's eastern slope above Broadway serves as a memorial to the Isham family and another at the top of the park that must have been intended to provide views in all directions, a major feature of the park when it was given in 1911.
Isham Park's design shines in this spontaneous interview!
Thank you Adrian Sas!
Congratulations to NYC Parks and to Parks Gardener Walter Markham.
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