in 1920 when the surrounding houses were remodeled. North of the
square, facing the river, is Riverview Terrace, a single row of brown-
stones occupied by old residents of the neighborhood. An iron fence,
fronted with shrubbery, flowers, and ten evenly spaced maple trees, extends
along the edge of the bluff. The imperturbable atmosphere of this small
court is unrivaled by the synthetic environment of larger, more carefully
planned real-estate developments. On stormy days the waves breaking
against the rocks on the river shore can be heard above the rumble of traffic
crossing the great Queensboro Bridge overhead.

The scene changes abruptly to the north. The huge smokestack of a
New York Steam Corporation plant adjoins Riverview Terrace. At Sixtieth
Street Sutton Place passes under the Queensboro Bridge and into the more
plebeian world of York Avenue.

Central Park South, the Plaza, and Fifty-Seventh Street

Area: 57th St. on the south to Central Park South on the north; from Broadway
east to Fifth Ave.

From Columbus Circle's whirlpool of noisy workaday confusion, pre-
sided over by a statue of Isabella's adventuresome ambassador, Central
Park South emerges as a resplendent thoroughfare. Terminating at Grand
Army Plaza and Fifth Avenue, it traverses three long blocks from the
Circle to Fifth Avenue, with smart hotels—some of them more than forty
stories high—on one side, and the two-and-a-half-mile vista of the park
on the other. Central Park South's sister-street in impor-
tance, Fifty-seventh, is one of opulent shops and stores, concert halls and
schools of art, dancing, and music. Fifty-eighth Street is the comparatively
poor relation.

The plaza from Fifty-eighth to Sixtieth Street provides a formalized
entrance to the park; it also serves as an impressive forecourt for the
stately hotels surrounding it. The official name, seldom used, is Grand
Army Plaza. In the northern half is the Statue of General William
Tecumseh Sherman, and in the southern half, the Pulitzer Memorial
Fountain. The Sherman statue, which brought fame to Augustus Saint-
Gaudens when it was unveiled at the Paris exposition in 1900, was placed
in the plaza in 1903. Modeled with fine precision, this bronze and gilt
equestrian statue is one of the city's most impressive monuments. The
Pulitzer Memorial, called the Fountain of Abundance, consists of two