Walking Tour: Southern End of Riverside Drive

In response to the success of Central Park, historic Riverside Park and its parallel avenue Riverside Drive were developed by Andrew Haswell Green, the city’s first comprehensive urban planner, who hired Frederick Law Olmstead for the design. Walk from 72nd Street up to 89th Street to view gilded age mansions by renowned architects such as C.P.H. Gilbert and Clarence True, as well as the Eleanor Roosevelt Monument and the Soldiers’ & Sailors’ Monument, among other memorial statues on the way.