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Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, and the first landscaped park in the United States.. It is the sixth-largest park in the city, containing 843 acres (341 ha), and the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 42 million visitors annually as of 2016
Strawberry Fields is a 2.5-acre (1.0 ha) landscaped section in New York City's Central Park, designed by the landscape architect Bruce Kelly, that is dedicated to the memory of former Beatles member John Lennon. It is named after the Beatles' song "Strawberry Fields Forever", written by Lennon.
Central Park Tower is a residential supertall skyscraper at 225 West 57th Street, along Billionaires' Row, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, U.S. Designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, the building rises 1,550 feet (472.4 m) with 98 above-ground stories and three basement stories, although the top story is numbered 136.
Olmsted and Vaux continued their informal partnership to design Prospect Park in Brooklyn from 1865 to 1873. [17] That was followed by other projects. Vaux remained in the shadow of Olmsted's grand public personality and social connections. The design of Central Park embodies Olmsted's social consciousness and commitment to egalitarian ideals.
In 1929, a memorial bench was dedicated to him in Central Park; it was surrounded by five elms, representing the five boroughs. In the 1980s, the bench was moved to another hill at 40°47′42″N 73°57′15″W / 40.79512°N 73.95428°W / 40.79512; -73.95428 , overlooking Harlem Meer , and new maples were planted in
In 1864, the stonework of Bethesda Terrace was completed except for minor details, and the Central Park commission hired a sculptor to design the figures for the Fountain. [6] The upper level of the Terrace was mostly built by 1867, by which time the Fountain's figures were being cast in bronze. [ 7 ]
In 1989, after a brutal assault on a jogger in Manhattan’s Central Park, he took out full-page ads demanding the death penalty for the five Black and Hispanic teenagers accused of committing the ...
Central Park superintendent Frederick Law Olmsted worked with Calvert Vaux to create the "Greensward Plan", which was eventually decided as the winner of the contest. [19] [20] [21] The Greensward Plan distinguished itself from many of the other designs in the contest by including four sunken "transverse" roadways, which carried crosstown traffic through Central Park and were not intended to ...