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. Fifth Avenue Some fences, of course, are attractive such as those in poems, those on large horse farms, or around Buckingham Palace, or the former Andrew Carnegie mansion that is the Cooper-Hewitt Museum overlooking the reservoir on Fifth Avenue and even those quaint white picket fences somewhere in suburbia. Within a few years, the city's Department of Environmental Protection, which oversees the municipal water supply, will give the lake to the Parks Department, which has coveted it ever since Robert Moses dreamed of making it the world's largest swimming pool.