From CBS New York:A 1910 carousel featuring 46 hand-carved horses, a lion, tiger and deer has been declared a New York City landmark.
The Forest Park Carousel in Woodhaven, Queens, is the city’s first carousel to get the designation.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously approved it Tuesday.
The two-tiered, three-row carousel was manufactured by the celebrated Philadelphia carousel maker D.C. Muller & Brother.
It was originally made for Lakeview Park in Dracut, Mass.
The carousel began operating in the 500-acre Forest Park in 1973. It also has an ornate band organ manufactured by the A. Ruth & Sohn Organ Company in Waldkirch, Germany.
It doesn't stand in the way of development and will add to the LPC's Queens tally, so it was designated.
4 comments:
Horray!!!
I used to go to that carousel with my father and sisters when I was five. That was 56 years ago. It must have made quite an impression
It's about F-----G time!
All of us preservationists were pushing for that way back when I was still a board member of the Queens Historical Society.
That had to be at least 2 decades ago.
Time moves faster than carousel steeds!
This landmark thing needs has failed miserably.
The benefits of no law on the books should be restricted by the whim of a political hack to a tiny privileged few while everyone is paying for it from their taxes.
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