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The 90-acre (36 ha) North Woods, in the northwestern corner of the park, is a rugged woodland that contains a forest called the Ravine, as well as two water features called the Loch and the Pool. The western portion of the North Woods also includes Great Hill, the third highest point in Central Park. North Meadow, a recreation center and sports ...
Central Park. / 40.78222°N 73.96528°W / 40.78222; -73.96528. Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City that was 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 ...
The Concert in Central Park. The Concert in Central Park is the first live album by American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, released on February 16, 1982, by Warner Bros. Records. It was recorded on September 19, 1981, at a free benefit concert on the Great Lawn in Central Park, New York City, where the pair performed in front of 500,000 ...
The Great Lawn and Turtle Pond are two connected features of Central Park in Manhattan, New York City, United States. The lawn and pond are located on the site of a former reservoir for the Croton Aqueduct system which was infilled during the early 20th century. The pond, originally known as Belvedere Lake, abuts Belvedere Castle as well as the ...
Central Park Conservancy. / 40.78222°N 73.96528°W / 40.78222; -73.96528. The Central Park Conservancy is an American private, nonprofit park conservancy that manages New York City 's Central Park under a contract with the government of New York City and NYC Parks. The conservancy employs most maintenance and operations staff in the park.
On the morning of May 25, 2020, then-portfolio manager Amy Cooper was walking her dog in an area of New York City's Central Park known as the Ramble.Comic book writer and editor Christian Cooper was birdwatching there and noticed that Amy's dog was unleashed and running free, [2] despite the requirement that dogs in that part of the park be on-leash set by the Central Park Conservancy, which ...
Over 1,000,000. Garth: Live from Central Park was a concert held by American country pop musician Garth Brooks on August 7, 1997 at Central Park in New York City. Dubbed "Garthstock" (paying homage to Woodstock ), the concert was free of charge and became the largest concert ever held in the park, with an estimated audience of over 1,000,000.
Aurora Village–Wells College Historic District. / 42.75028°N 76.70000°W / 42.75028; -76.70000. The historic village of Aurora, Cayuga County, New York, rises on a hill above the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake. The village was named by Captain Benjamin Ledyard, who settled there in 1793, in the post- Revolutionary development of the ...