Central Park - view from the Rockefeller Center
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Central Park - view from the Rockefeller Center
Central Park is probably the most famous park all over the world. It is located in the middle of the New York City, in Manhattan borough. It is a large piece of nature in the concrete jungle. It is the most visited park in USA with about 25 million visitors a year. Central Park is a public, urban park.
Central Park covers the area of 843 acres (3.41 square kilometers). It is bordered by 110th Street on the north, Central Park West on the west, 59th Street on the south and its east border is created by Fifth Avenue. The park is run by Central Park Conservancy, which is a private, non-profit organization that manages the park under a contract with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
The voices for the need of greater park in New York started in 1844. In 1853 the legislature designated an area. Central Park was finally designed by a writer Frederick Law Olmsted and English architect Calvert Vaux in 1857. The park was officially completed in 1873.
Almost all the park is landscaped. There are several artificial lakes, extensive walking tracks, in winter two ice-skating rinks, a wildlife sanctuary, and grassy areas used for various sporting pursuits and picnics, as well as playgrounds for children. As the only large area of nature in the centre of New York, the park is a popular oasis for migrating birds, and thus it is popular with bird watchers. There are six miles (10 km) of road circling used by joggers, bicyclists and inline skaters, especially on weekends and in the evenings after 7:00 p.m., when automobile traffic is banned.
There are 29 sculptures in the Central Park. To the most famous belong for example the "Cleopatra's Needle," actually an Egyptian obelisk of Tutmose III, which was donated to New York by the Khedive of Egypt, a larger-than-life statue of Alice, sitting on a huge mushroom, playing with her cat, while the Hatter and the March Hare look on or a statue of the sled dog Balto.
There are many activities connected with Central Park in summer. The Public Theatre presents free open-air theatre productions, often starring well-known stage and screen actors, in the Delacorte Theatre. The New York Philharmonic gives an open-air concert every summer on the Great Lawn and the Metropolitan Opera presents two operas. Also each summer, City Parks Foundation offers Central Park Summerstage, a series of free performances including music, dance, spoken word, and film presentations.
Central Park covers the area of 843 acres (3.41 square kilometers). It is bordered by 110th Street on the north, Central Park West on the west, 59th Street on the south and its east border is created by Fifth Avenue. The park is run by Central Park Conservancy, which is a private, non-profit organization that manages the park under a contract with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
The voices for the need of greater park in New York started in 1844. In 1853 the legislature designated an area. Central Park was finally designed by a writer Frederick Law Olmsted and English architect Calvert Vaux in 1857. The park was officially completed in 1873.
Almost all the park is landscaped. There are several artificial lakes, extensive walking tracks, in winter two ice-skating rinks, a wildlife sanctuary, and grassy areas used for various sporting pursuits and picnics, as well as playgrounds for children. As the only large area of nature in the centre of New York, the park is a popular oasis for migrating birds, and thus it is popular with bird watchers. There are six miles (10 km) of road circling used by joggers, bicyclists and inline skaters, especially on weekends and in the evenings after 7:00 p.m., when automobile traffic is banned.
There are 29 sculptures in the Central Park. To the most famous belong for example the "Cleopatra's Needle," actually an Egyptian obelisk of Tutmose III, which was donated to New York by the Khedive of Egypt, a larger-than-life statue of Alice, sitting on a huge mushroom, playing with her cat, while the Hatter and the March Hare look on or a statue of the sled dog Balto.
There are many activities connected with Central Park in summer. The Public Theatre presents free open-air theatre productions, often starring well-known stage and screen actors, in the Delacorte Theatre. The New York Philharmonic gives an open-air concert every summer on the Great Lawn and the Metropolitan Opera presents two operas. Also each summer, City Parks Foundation offers Central Park Summerstage, a series of free performances including music, dance, spoken word, and film presentations.
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