The Roadrunners Club perhaps should foot much of the bill as penance for their members terrifying pedestrians and for their less than always elegant attire. Frederick Law Olmstead and his associates have provided plenty of inspiration for the design of a new fence in their many bridges in the park. The fence should also not be so high as to mar vistas of the surroundings that are among the best in the world. There probably is no need for a fence at all since seagulls like to lounge in the reservoir already and the fence is not going to prevent a terrorist from mischief anyway. Fences are enslaving.
Fences are ignoble.
Fences are insulting. Fences deny freedom. The annual Hispanic Day Parade is one of New York's largest and colorful. In 1999, many of the more expensive apartment buildings on Fifth Avenue took rather extravagant precaution against the crowds by erecting temporary fences around their sidewalk landscaping as shown above at 1035 Fifth Avenue and below at 1040 Fifth Avenue. The wooden fence at the latter is a little surprising as it is generally considered a more elegant building.