Central Park from the Rockefeller Center
Weekly Photo Challenge. Landscape: Central Park
Central Park is an urban park in middle-upper Manhattan, within New York City. Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States as well as one of the most filmed locations in the world, with 40 million visitors in 2013.
The Park was established in 1857 on 778 acres (315 ha) of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, two soon-to-be famed national landscapers and architects, won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they titled the “Greensward Plan”. Construction began the same year and the park’s first area was opened to the public in the winter of 1858. Construction continued during the American Civil War further south, and was expanded to its current size of 843 acres (341 ha) in 1873.
Central Park from the Rockefeller Center
Central Park was designated a National Historic Landmark (listed by the U.S. Department of the Interior and administered by the National Park Service) in 1962. The Park was managed for decades by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, and is currently managed by the Central Park Conservancy under contract with the municipal government in a public-private partnership. The Conservancy is a non-profit organization that contributes 75 percent of Central Park’s $65 million annual budget and is responsible for all basic care of the 843-acre park.
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Such lovely photos 🙂
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Thanks Sóla, you’re very kind. I’m glad you like photographs.
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These pictures are quite amazing… I really have to go to new york one day!
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Thank you Mary. I’m glad you like photographs. I recommend you a trip to NYC, it’s a wonderful city, it deserves a visit.
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I always like the pictures you take ^^
I want to go there quite badly. It is one of the next destinations up on my list.
Especially after these pictures 😉
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What a wonderful space, smack bang in the middle of the world’s greatest city.
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Thank you friend! I have been away from the blog for personal reasons. I hope to resume the blog, although at a slower pace than before…
Yes, it really is an amazing and huge space, like the city.
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Thanks. I too have been an infrequent blogger due to illness but am gradually getting back to speed. Someone once told me that getting old was not for sissies. How right he was.
Your images have always delighted me, I’m looking forward to seeing them more often.
Hoo roo.
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