 CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY
Central Park is a public greenspace and park in the heart of Manhattan, with approximately twenty-five million visitors each year, it is the most visited urban park in the United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on 770 acres of city-owned land, then in 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition.
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Belvedere Castle,
Bethesda Terrace,
Blockhouse,
Central Park Mall,
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Cleopatra's Needle,
Conservatory Garden,
Dipway Arch,
The Gates,
Great Lawn & Turtle Pond,
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir,
Lasker Rink,
Rat Rock,
Sheep Meadow,
Strawberry Fields,
Wollman Rink,
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BELVEDERE CASTLE
Belvedere Castle is a building in Central Park in New York, that contains exhibit rooms and an observation deck. Built as a Victorian folly in 1869, the castle caps Vista Rock, the park's second-highest natural elevation. Constructed of Manhattan schist quarried in the park and dressed with gray granite, it tops the natural-looking woodlands of The Ramble ...
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BETHESDA TERRACE
Bethesda Terrace overlooks The Lake in New York City's Central Park. It is on two levels, united by two grand staircases and a lesser one that passes under Terrace Drive to provide passage southward to the Elkan Naumburg bandshell and The Mall, of which this is the architectural culmination, the theatrical set-piece at the center of the park ...
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THE BLOCKHOUSE
The Blockhouse is a small fort in the northern part of Central Park, in New York City, New York, and is the oldest structure standing in the park. It is located on an overlook of Manhattan schist, with a clear view of the flat surrounding areas north of Central Park. Finished in 1814, the fort was part of a series of fortifications in northern Manhattan ...
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CENTRAL PARK MALL
The Central Park Mall leading to the Bethesda Terrace provides the only purely formal feature in the naturalistic original plan of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux for Central Park, New York City. The Mall, designated the 'Promenade' in Olmsted and Vaux's 'Greensward' plan of 1857, was called the 'open air hall of reception' ...
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CENTRAL PARK SOUTH
Central Park South forms the southern perimeter of Central Park in the borough of Manhattan. It is bounded by Columbus Circle at Eighth Avenue on the west and Grand Army Plaza at Fifth Avenue on the east. Entry into Central Park is provided at Scholars Gate at Fifth Avenue, Artists Gate at Sixth, Artisans Gate at Seventh, and Merchants Gate at Eighth Avenue ...
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CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE
Cleopatra's Needle is the popular name for each of three Ancient Egyptian obelisks re-erected in London, Paris, and New York City during the nineteenth century. The London and New York ones are a pair, while the Paris one comes from a different original site where its twin remains. Although the needles are genuine Ancient Egyptian obelisks ...
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CONSERVATORY GARDEN
The Conservatory Garden is the only formal garden in Central Park. Comprising 6 acres (24,000 m2), it takes its name from a conservatory that stood on the site from 1898 to 1934. The park's head gardener used the glasshouses to harden hardwood cuttings for the park's plantings. After the conservatory was torn down, the garden was designed by Gilmore D. Clarke ...
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DIPWAY ARCH
The Dipway Arch, in New York City's Central Park was designed by Calvert Vaux and features curved granite detail along the abutments. The inner passageway is lined with red brick and is divided into arcades of seven arches, each with a granite keystone. It is located just through the Artisans' Gate, at Central Park South and Seventh Avenue ...
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THE GATES
The Gates was a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl 'gates' along 23 miles (37 km) of pathways in Central Park in New York City. From each gate hung a panel of deep saffron-colored nylon fabric. The exhibit ran from February 12, 2005 through February 27, 2005 ...
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GREAT LAWN & TURTLE POND
The Great Lawn and Turtle Pond are inseparable features of New York City's Central Park. The lawn and pond occupy the almost flat site of the rectangular, thirty-five-acre Lower Reservoir constructed in 1842, which was an unalterable fixture of the location of Central Park as it was first designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux ...
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JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS RESERVOIR
The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir - or Central Park Reservoir - is a decommissioned reservoir in Central Park in the borough of Manhatta. The Reservoir was built between 1858 and 1862, to the design for Central Park of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, who designed its two pumphouses of Manhattan schist with granite facings ...
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LASKER RINK
Lasker Rink is located in the northern part of Central Park in the New York City borough of Manhattan, just south of the 110th Street entrance between 106th and 108th Street. It opened in 1966 and lies between Harlem Meer and the East Drive. Lasker is known by New Yorkers as less crowded and more economical than Wollman Rink ...
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RAT ROCK
Rat Rock is a rock formation of a schist boulder protruding from the Central Park bedrock in Manhattan. It is named after the rats that used to swarm there at night but it is also known as Umpire Rock. It is near the southwest corner of the park, north of the Heckscher Ballfields on the lines of 62nd Street and 7th Avenue. The boulder is roughly circular, about 55 feet wide ...
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SHEEP MEADOW
The 15-acre preserve known as Sheep Meadow has a long history as a gathering place for large scale demonstrations and political movements. It is currently a favorite spot for families, sunbathers, picnickers, kite flyers, and other visitors to come relax and admire the New York City skyline. Sheep Meadow is located at West side/mid-Park from 66th to 69th Streets ...
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STRAWBERRY FIELDS MEMORIAL
Strawberry Fields is a 2.5-acrelandscaped section in New York City's Central Park that is dedicated to the memory of the musician John Lennon. It is named after the Beatles song Strawberry Fields Forever. Strawberry Fields was inaugurated on what would have been Lennon's 45th birthday, 9 October 1985, by his widow Yoko Ono ...
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WOLLMAN SKATING RINK
Wollman Skating Rink is a public ice rink in the southern part of Central Park. The rink was opened in 1949 with funds donated by Kate Wollman. Historically, the rink has been open for ice skating from October to April and in the summer is transformed for other purposes. The rink had for many years been the venue for a series of outdoor summer rock concerts ...
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