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12 Secrets of New York's Central Park

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12 Secrets of New York's Central Park - by Alex Van Buren/ Travel & Leisure/ SmithsonianMag.com

"Learn some little-known facts about this NYC landmark.

No natural landmark in New York City is as iconic as its beloved 843-acre park. As Columbia University professor Elizabeth Blackmar notes in her book The Park and the People: A History of Central Park, it's made cameos in high and low culture alike, from the writings of Walt Whitman and J. D. Salinger to pop culture standbys like "Wall Street" and "When Harry Met Sally."

These days, 42 million people visit Central Park every year, rambling about its sprawling Sheep Meadow, its lovely lake, and its epic gardens. Seth Kamil, whose company Big Onion has led tours of Central Park and other NYC landmarks for a quarter century—and who actually met his wife while leading one of his tours decades ago—told us a few little-known facts about this historic 19th-century landmark..."


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Fun read, thank you.

I do NOT see a conflict in the first point. Adding the park to compete with UK/European cities or to raise nearby property values seem like complimentary, if not congruent, motives to me? I certainly enjoyed the point of Central Park being a microcosm of NY, the state.
 
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