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  2. Central Park - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Belvedere Castle - Wikipedia

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    Belvedere Castle is a folly in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City. It contains exhibit rooms, an observation deck, and since 1919 has housed Central Park’s official weather station. Belvedere Castle was designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould in 1867. [1] An architectural hybrid of Romanesque and Gothic styles, the design called ...

  4. Great Lawn and Turtle Pond - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Bethesda Terrace and Fountain - Wikipedia

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    Bethesda Terrace and Fountain are two architectural features overlooking the southern shore of the Lake in New York City 's Central Park. The fountain, with its Angel of the Waters statue, is located in the center of the terrace . Bethesda Terrace's two levels are united by two grand staircases and a lesser one that passes under Terrace Drive.

  6. Seneca Village - Wikipedia

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    Seneca Village was a 19th-century settlement of mostly African American landowners in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, within what would become present-day Central Park. The settlement was located near the current Upper West Side neighbourhood, approximately bounded by Central Park West and the axes of 82nd Street, 89th Street, and ...

  7. Public art in Central Park - Wikipedia

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    The gilded bronze statue of the Sherman Monument (dedicated in 1903), sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens on a pedestal designed by Charles Follen McKim. [1] New York City's 843-acre (3.41 km 2) Central Park is the home of many works of public art in various media, such as bronze, stone, and tile. Many are sculptures in the form of busts ...

  8. Arsenal (Central Park) - Wikipedia

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    Click on the map and then on the points for details. The Arsenal is a symmetrical brick building with modestly Gothic Revival details, located in Central Park in New York City adjacent to the Central Park Zoo. It is centered on 64th Street west of Fifth Avenue. Built between 1847 and 1851 as a storehouse for arms and ammunition for the New York ...

  9. Strawberry Fields (memorial) - Wikipedia

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    Click on the map and then on the points for details. 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.

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