Andrew H. Green is a name unfamiliar to most New Yorkers, yet his legacy is everywhere: Central Park, Riverside Park, and Morningside Park; the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the northern Manhattan street grid—indeed, the very five-borough city that exists today. Green, who is sometimes described as a 19th-century Robert Moses, was a pioneering city planner and preservationist, and the driving force behind the movement to consolidate the municipalities around New York Harbor into a single metropolis. Manhattan Borough Historian Michael Miscione will present an illustrated lecture recounting Green’s remarkable career. After the program, attendees will be invited to walk to the Green Memorial Bench in Central Park, Andrew H. Green’s only public monument in the five boroughs, to raise a toast in his honor.