PARK FACT:
One of the forces behind the completion of the grid on the Upper West Side and the creation of Riverside Park was the rise in real estate values after the Civil War and the need for more housing out at the edges of Manhattan to relieve congestion.
Riverside Park
Amiable Child Memorial 
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- Description: Funeral urn on pedestal marking grave
- Materials: Original headstone--sandstone; First replacement urn and pedestal--white Vermont marble; Second replacement urn and pedestal--light grey Barre granite
- Cast: 1967
- Dedicated: May 3, 1967
- Inscription: 1) pedestal, east face: "ERECTED TO THE MEMORY / OF AN AMIABLE CHILD / ST. CLAIRE POLLOCK / DIED 15 JULY 1797 / IN THE FIFTH YEAR OF HIS AGE" 2) "'MAN THAT IS BORN OF WOMAN / IS OF FEW DAYS AND FULL / OF TROUBLE. HE COMETH / LIKE A FLOWER AND IS / CUT DOWN; HE FLEETH ALSO / AS A SHADOW AND / CONTINUETH NOT.' / [space] JOB - XIV: 1-2"
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