Clement Clarke Moore developed Chelsea as a planned community with such innovations as "air shafts" to prevent fires. Of course, the world remembers him for inventing the reindeer and sleigh, but the Friends of Dorothy should venerate him for giving them their neighborhood.
Clement Moore has a tie to Elmhurst as well. The playground across Broadway from the phone co. building was the site of his uncle’s farm house where he supposedly wrote “A Visit From St. Nicholas.” I remember an old house, not sure if it was the same one, on the site of todays park. The park and the old P.S. 13 at 94 St. and 55 Ave. were named for him.