Central Park
I just finished watching a special on Central Park in NYC, and I had no idea all of the cool things it has. Suzy and I have been there so many times, even to the places they talked about, but it was like a whole new park. Sometimes it's really cool to live here!
- All of the lakes, reservoirs, and streams are artificial - they get turned on by faucets - all 150 acres of it.
- Wildlife seen recently - a turkey, great horned owl, red winged black birds (and these are the unusual one in addition to the 100 other bird species).
- There is a "Whispering bench" in the Shakespeare Garden shaped like an ionic capital.
- It even has a police precinct.
- They have an ambulance staffed entirely by volunteer medical professionals (with an average 5 minute response time).
- The park is divided up into 49 zones, each with a zone gardener and an entire team to assist them. (I wish we had some volunteers to help dig up wild onions in our yard in TN!)
- 26 baseball fields, with 10,000 games played each year.
- 58 miles of paths and 7 miles of benches!
- It costs $25 million a year to maintain - all by a nonprofit - The Central Park Conservancy.
posted by Tim at
7:38 PM
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What's the "Whispering Bench" like? Have you checked it out already?
Nope, not yet...but it's on the list!
So Tim, your blog on the park sparked my interest a bit. With further swimming, I found a interesting chapter of the park's famous and infamous history. Many were aware of the park's headline story in 1989 when an investment banker was raped and beaten in the park by a group of teenagers, but I found an interesting fact about one of the assailants. Yusef Salaam, after serving his prison time, now performs live poetry readings with his mother concerning the death penalty. Now this would be an interesting event to attend. Anyway, I hope others are addicted to Wikipedia as I am.
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