Audubon Park is also changing...

It seems that our neighborhood's been getting a lot of attention from the NYT lately-- two weeks in a row!

Naturalist Perched Here

Chang W. Lee/The New York Times

A Medieval Revival apartment house on Riverside Drive in Audubon Park. The neighborhood's name had fallen into disuse, but was revived by residents who in 2009 won landmark protection for much of it.

By JOHN FREEMAN GILL

Published: June 24, 2011

ONE can imagine how John James Audubon, the renowned naturalist and illustrator of “Birds of America,” might have reacted to the idea: his own name, being used to promote the very development that would transform the rambling woodlands of his beloved Washington Heights estate into a densely populated urban district. But that is precisely what happened, according to Matthew Spady, a longtime resident and magpie collector of historical facts about the area.  Continue reading on NYT site and see the multimedia.