Courtesy of New York City Parks Photo Archive. At this meeting at a Lower East Side Puerto Rican community center, Courtney Callender (1937-1983), the Park's Department's first director of Community Relations, holds a model for a vest pocket park, as consultant landscape architect Paul Friedberg (at right) explains plans, and Parks Commissioner August Heckscher (far left) looks on. Callender was later promoted to Deputy Commissioner of Cultural Affairs, and also served as director of the Studio Museum of Harlem and WNET's educational programming. A playground in Harlem is named in his honor.