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===Fort Tryon Park===
[[File:The Cloisters - The MET Cloisters - Joy of Museums.jpg|thumb|[[The Cloisters]] seen from the main entrance]]
Occupying a 67-acre area south of [[Inwood Hill Park]] between Broadway and the Henry Hudson Parkway,<ref name=NYCParks-FtTryon>[http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/fort-tryon-park Fort Tryon Park], [[New York City Department of Parks and Recreation]]. Retrieved April 28, 2016.</ref> [[Fort Tryon Park]]'s history began with John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s purchase of the Hays, Shaefer, Libbey, and Billings estates in 1917 for $2&nbsp;million (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|2.0|1917|fmt=c|r=1}}&nbsp;million in {{Inflation/year|US}}).<ref name="ftvicinitylandmark"/>{{Rp|777}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nypl.org/collections/articles-databases/new-york-tribune-1841-1922|title=John D., Jr., Offers City A River Park: Tenders Billings, Sheafer and Hay Properties, Worth $2,000,000 Asks New York to Buy Adjoining Property Natural Gateway to Palisades Would Be Formed; Mayor Urges Acceptance|date=June 16, 1917|page=14|work=[[New-York Tribune]]|access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref> Rockefeller hired [[Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.]] (the son of Fort Washington Park's planner) to design the park in 1927, and in 1931 [[Jimmy Walker|Mayor James Walker]] accepted his donation of the parkland, to be developed primarily at Rockefeller's expense.<ref name=forttryonhd/> Opening in 1935, the park's picturesque views of [[The Palisades (Hudson River)|the Palisades]] across the Hudson River were maintained by another Rockefeller purchase there with the aim of preventing construction, preserved as part of [[Palisades Interstate Park]].<ref name=NYCParks-FtTryon/>

As part of his Fort Tryon donation, Rockefeller reserved {{convert|4|acres}} in the center of the park for the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] to develop [[the Cloisters]]. The original Cloisters museum, a collection of [[medieval art]] owned by [[George Grey Barnard]] and located on upper Fort Washington Avenue,<ref name=forttryonhd/> was purchased by the Metropolitan with Rockefeller funds in 1925.<ref name="creatingthecloisters"/>{{Rp|18}} After Fort Tryon Park's opening in 1935, construction began for the new Cloisters building using elements shipped from abbeys in southern [[France]] and [[Catalonia]], based on designs by [[Charles Collens]].<ref name=ftnomination>{{cite book|url=https://www.forttryonparktrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1978National-Register-Historic-Preservation.pdf|access-date=March 28, 2021|title=Nomination Form – Fort Tryon Park and the Cloisters|publisher=[[National Register of Historic Places]]|date=October 12, 1978}}</ref> Added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1978, the museum has a vast collection of [[Romanesque art|Romanesque]] and [[Gothic art|Gothic]] art, including the ''[[The Hunt of the Unicorn|Hunt of the Unicorn]]'' tapestries, purchased by Rockefeller for $1 million in 1922.<ref name=scenichistoricamerica>{{cite magazine|access-date=March 27, 2021|date=May 1936|title=Fort Tryon Park|magazine=Scenic and Historic America|publisher=American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society|first=Raymond H.|last=Torrey|location=New York|url=https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/readbook/FortTryonPark_10905354}}</ref>{{Rp|19}}<ref>{{cite journal|access-date=March 28, 2021|first=James J.|last=Rorimer|publisher=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]|journal=The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin|date=1942|doi=10.2307/3257087|volume=1|issue=1|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3257087|title=The Unicorn Tapestries Were Made for Anne of Brittany|pages=7–20|jstor=3257087|url-access=subscription}}</ref>{{Rp|7}}

One of Fort Tryon Park's biggest annual events is the [[Medieval]] Festival, a collaboration between the [[New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|Parks Department]] and the Washington Heights and Inwood Development Corporation that has taken place at the park since 1983.<ref name=medievalfest>{{cite web|url=https://whidc.org/programs/the-medieval-festival-at-fort-tryon-park/|title=The Medieval Festival at Fort Tryon Park|publisher=Washington Heights and Inwood Development Corporation|access-date=March 28, 2021|archive-date=March 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305131631/https://whidc.org/programs/the-medieval-festival-at-fort-tryon-park/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/nyregion/taking-the-a-train-to-the-middle-ages.html|title=Taking the A Train to the Middle Ages|last1=Speers|first1=Landon|date=October 5, 2018|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=September 29, 2019|last2=Leland|first2=John}}</ref> The event is free, relying on a mix of private and public sponsors as well as donations, and draws an average of 60,000 people for an afternoon of medieval-themed arts, activities, and food.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://patch.com/new-york/washington-heights-inwood/uptown-medieval-festival-drawn-tens-thousands-organizers|title=Medieval Festival Will Draw Tens of Thousands Uptown|first=Brendan|last=Krisel|date=August 16, 2018|access-date=March 17, 2020|work=[[Patch (website)|Patch]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://whidc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/MedievalFestivalProgram_2019_spreads-new.pdf|title=Medieval Festival Program (2019)|publisher=Washington Heights and Inwood Development Corporation|access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>