This first-year assignment was to select a challenging public site in Manhattan and design a solution to improve the space. Pellino chose a small site in a part of Greenwich Village that had very little park space. The side wall of a townhouse adjacent to the site faced Seventh Avenue and acted as a billboard. Pellino's solution to the assignment was to create a small garden memorial to the many Village residents who were ill or were dying of AIDS. The looming wall provided a map to help visitors find their way through the Village's tangle of streets. "I was very impressed when a fellow student presented a final submittal in front of us all that stated there was no viable solution for his site," Pellino writes. This finding aid formerly indicated that the title of this project was, "Park for Lower Seventh Avenue," but the archivists are revising the title to reflect Pellino's wishes, as well as the inscribed title on one of the drawings, and have added the address, as well, because it is included on all of the drawings.