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LOCATION
Address: Fifth Avenue and 60th Street
City: New York
State: New York
Zip Code: 10019
Nation: United States

STATUS
Type: Exhibition
Status: Built

TECHNICAL DATA
Date(s): 1968
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Height: 9’-0” (2.74 m)
Floors (Above Ground): 1
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Client: Department of Parks of New York City
Architect: Myron Goldfinger (1933-2023)
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Information Booth

The project scope is to design an information booth for the Department of Parks of New York City.
The information furnished at the booth ranges from concert schedules to where to find a lost child, plus general information on cultural and park activities throughout New York City during the summer months. A new pocket guide to Central Park containing a complete map of the park, with playgrounds, refreshment stands, parking lots, comfort stations, bridle paths and landmarks is available free to the public at the booth. The guide, donated by the Advertising Women of New York Foundation, Inc., is designed and coordinated by Lenore Scott. The park map was taken from ‘Central Park: A History and a Guide’ by Henry Hope Reed and Sophia Duckworth, reproduced by permission of Clarkson N. Potter, Inc
The booth operates Monday through Friday, from 10:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. and is manned by workers from the Office of Cultural Affairs of the PRCA Administration. Sterling Paper Fashions donates colorful straw hats for the girls and striped jackets for the boys who work at the booth.
The booth is constructed of 20 plywood doors bolted together and painted bright, candy-striped yellow, red and orange. It is a temporary collapsible structure that takes about a half hour to assemble.
The overall size of the structure is 11 feet by 11 feet by 9 feet high (3.35 x 3.35 x 2.74 m) and is 2 feet by 3 feet by 7 feet (.61 x .91 x 2.13 m) when stored.
The booth is a pilot project that the city may reuse for similar installations in other parks.