Not Just Any Park

            As a little kid I would always want to go to this pacific park. I called it the “popular park”, because you will always find someone in it no matter the time. The park meant something to me because this is where my family would have their events; birthday parties, cookouts, get together and so on. In the summer time I would always go to the Lasker Pool, located at 110^th Street and Lenox Avenue that’s in central park. I was only allowed to go a certain distance in the park, not that I was thinking to go any further than I was allowed to go, It never came to me how big the park was. It wasn’t Intel I got older that I realized that central park is not this “little oh park” I through it was.

            Central Park is from 59^th Street to 110^th Street. There’s so much you can do in central park, for example if your into working out you can do that, jogging the most common thing that everybody do go for a walk and enjoy the fresh air. Enjoy the environment meet new people and explore. What a lot of people don’t know is that before Central Park was built Eighth Avenue and 82^nd Street Seneca Village had been one of the city’s most stable African-American settlements. There were three churches and a school also Irish pig farmers and German gardeners at the time (Elizabeth Blackmar, 2004). Which I seem to find inserting, who would have known that people use to live here in tents and farms were made here. Central Park was in vision by the Great Park in London and Paris. A design by Frederic Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux (Central Park).

Since the 1890’s changed in the park had been largely incremental: the museums got bigger, new entrances were opened and paths introduced, the casino was renovated and expanded, rules were loosened, tennis courts paved, new sports permitted, speed limits increased, status added, and more peddlers licensed (Roy Rosenzweig, 1992). Everything in the park had changed and you now had to follow the rules of the park. Central park to day is open from 6am to 1am. The park hours gives you more than enough time to enjoy yourself, also you can receive a fine if you are in the park during the hours their not open. With that being said Central Park is a great place and you will surly enjoy your time there.

 

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“History.”CentralPark.Com.Greensward Group,2004-2014.Web 27 March 2014.

“Central Park”A View on Cities.Web 27 March 2014

“A History of Central Park.”The Park and the People.Cornell University Press, 1992 Book 27 March 2014