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smaller Tisch Children’s Zoo, just
across 65th Street, children can
get close to goats, sheep, alpacas,
cows, and pot-bellied pigs. By its
entrance is the Delacorte Clock,
which plays nursery rhymes
every half-hour, as bronze musical
animals (such as a goat playing
panpipes) circle around it.
An 1864 print of Bethesda Fountain and Terrace Toward Willowdell Arch is
another favorite – the memorial
5 Bethesda Fountain feet. Children like to climb to Balto, leader of a team of
and Terrace on the statue and snuggle huskies that made a heroic
in the author’s lap. journey across Alaska with
Map 12 E1. q 72nd St. Conservatory Water’s serum for a diphtheria
literary links continue epidemic.
Situated between the lake and into adolescence: it is
the Mall, this is the architect ural here that J. D. Salinger’s
heart of the park, a formal Holden Caulfield comes to
element in the naturalistic tell the ducks his troubles in
landscape. The fountain was The Catcher in the Rye.
dedicated in 1873. The statue, Each spring, birdwatchers
Angel of the Waters, marked gather at the pond to see the
the opening of the Croton city’s most famous red-tailed
Aqueduct system in 1842, hawk, Pale Male, nest on the
bringing the city its first supply roof of 927 Fifth Avenue.
of pure water; its name refers Statue of Balto, the heroic husky dog,
to a biblical account of a healing Central Park Wildlife Center
angel at the pool of Bethesda 7 Central Park Zoo
in Jerusalem. The Spanish-style Map 12 F2. Tel (212) 439-6500. 8 Conservatory
detailing, such as the sculptured q Fifth Ave between 63rd and
double staircase, tiles, and 66th sts. Open 10am–5pm Mon–Fri, Garden
friezes, is by Jacob Wrey Mould. 10am–5:30pm Sat, Sun & hols; Nov– Map 21 B5. q Central Pk N, 103rd St.
The terrace is one of the best Mar: 10am–4:30pm daily. Last adm: Tel (212) 860-1382. Open 8am–dusk.
spots to relax and take in some 30 mins before closing. & 7 - = 7
people-watching. ∑ centralparkzoo.com
The Vanderbilt Gate on Fifth
6 Conservatory This imaginative zoo has won Avenue is the entry to a 6-acre
plaudits for its creative and
(2.4-ha) park containing three
Water humane use of small space. formal gardens. Each one
Map 16 F5. q 77th St. More than 150 species of animals represents a different national
are represented in three climate landscape style. The Central
Better known as the Model zones: the Tropics, the Polar Garden, with a large lawn, yew
Boat Pond, this stretch of water Circle, and the California coast. hedges, crab apple trees, and a
is home to model yacht races An equatorial rainforest is home wisteria pergola recreates an
every weekend. At the north to monkeys and free-flying Italian style. The South Garden,
end of the lake, a sculpture birds, while penguins and polar spilling over with perennials,
of Alice in Wonder land is a bears populate an Arctic land- represents an English style, with
delight for children. It was scape that allows views both a bronze statue in the reflecting
commissioned by George T. above and under water. At the pool of Mary and Dickon, from
Delacorte in honor of Frances Hodgson
his wife. He himself Burnett’s The Secret
is immortalized in Garden. Beyond is a slope
caricature as the Mad with native wild flowers,
Hatter. On the west spreading into the park
bank, free story hours beyond. The North
are held at the Hans Garden, in the French
Christian Andersen style, centers around
statue. The author is Samuel Untermyer’s
portrayed reading bronze fountain of the
from his own story, Three Dancing Maidens.
“The Ugly Duckling,” It puts on a brief but
while its hero brilliant display of
waddles at his Polar bear in the Central Park Zoo annuals each summer.

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