The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee review – the man who shaped New York

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Blunders, bad luck and ever-yearning love in a novel about the extraordinary life and death of an unsung hero

Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Imagesn a quiet corner of New York’s Central Park, there is a stone bench streaked with bird droppings. It’s an unassuming memorial for the “Father of Greater New York” – Andrew Haswell Green , a man the clamorous, roiling city has largely forgotten. It was AH Green, a lawyer and civic powerhouse, who championed the creation of Central Park, and the five-borough infrastructure that gave New York its modern shape.

 

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