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CENTRAL PARK

The city’s “backyard” was designed by and lush meadows dotted throughout, and
Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux on more than 500,000 trees and shrubs. Over
an unpromising site of quarries, pig farms, the years the park has blossomed, with play-
swamp land, and shacks. Sixteen years of grounds, skating rinks, ball fields, and spaces
construction, and five million cubic yards of for every other activity, from chess and
stone, earth, and top-soil, turned it into the croquet to concerts and events. Cars are
lush 843-acre (340-ha) park of today, with its not allowed on weekends, giving bicyclists,
official opening in 1876. There are hills, lakes, in-line skaters, and joggers the right of way.
Sights at a Glance
110th St-
Historic Buildings Cathedral Parkway
B.C
Blockhouse
1 The Dairy
CENTRAL PARK
110th St
3 Belvedere Castle GREAT Central Park North- NORTH
THE
2.3
HILL
Monuments and Statues WEST D R I V E Harlem
Meer
2 Strawberry Fields 103rd St Lasker Pool
& Rink
4 Bow Bridge B.C The
Loch
The
5 Bethesda Fountain and Terrace Pool CENTRAL
Lakes and Gardens C E N T R A L P A R K W E S T PAR K
6 Conservatory Water WEST DRIVE NORTH MEADOW
EAST DR I V E
BALL
7 Central Park Zoo FIELD
8 Conservatory Garden 96th St 97TH ST TRANSVERSE RD MEADOW
B.C
EAST
SOUTH MEADOW
TENNIS COURTS
Restaurants see pp302–4 F I F T H A V E N U E
1 Loeb Boathouse Restaurant Jacqueline Kennedy
2 Tavern on the Green Onassis Reservoir
86th St
B.C
81st St- 86TH STREET TRANSVERSE RD
Museum of
Natural History
B.C
THE GREAT
LAWN
SHAKESPEARE
GARDEN Delacorte Theater
Turtle
WEST D RI V E RAMBLE 0 meters 500 500
Pond
79TH ST TRANSVERSE RD
C E N T R A L P A R K W E S T B.C 7 2ND STREET TRANSVERSE R O A D ( M U S E U M M I L E )
THE
Central
EAS T DRIV E
Park Lake
0 yards
72nd St
CHERRY
HILL
W ES T DR IVE
SHEEP
MEADOW
T H E M A L L
EAST
CENTRAL
GREEN
P ARK
BALLFIELDS
59th St- HECKSCHER EAST DRIVE
Columbus Circle
65TH ST TR ANSV ERSE ROAD
1.A.B.C.D
WOLMAN FI FT H AV E NUE
RINK See also Street Finder maps 12, 16, 21
The Pond
CENTRAL PARK SOUTH (OLMSTED WAY)
New York’s most treasured green space, Central Park For keys to symbols see back flap
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