John Lennon

Solid as the Rock (of Gibraltar)

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The stubborn, recalcitrant, headstrong Rock of Gibraltar, a financial services center, has become a byword for something unchanging and dependable, somewhere that refuses to change regardless of fad, fashion or the prevailing wind – which is undoubtedly why the Prudential insurance company uses The Rock in its logo.

Untermyer, reborn

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The Untermyer Gardens Conservancy’s odyssey from Gilded Age glory to 1970s urban squalor and horror to resplendent 21st-century resurrection is the subject of Caroline Seebohm’s recent book “Paradise on the Hudson: The Creation, Loss, and Revival of a Great American Garden.”