We managed to do it by changing the collection, refocusing it, focusing on a series of geo-ecological areas like the Antarctic penguin exhibit and the tropical exhibit and so on and so on. It was a complex difficult project. On August the eighth, 1988, we reopened the Central Park Zoo the first of the three, and it was received with open arms by the public who were quite delighted and overwhelmed. It was a few years later that we opened the rebuilt children’s zoo and that also was very well received. In the meantime, we were working on the Prospect Park Zoo and the Queens Zoo, and eventually we got them remodeled and got them open. They’re all running now quite well. And the public seems to be happy and we’re pretty happy.
