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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 82. Chapters: Central Park, Gramercy Park, Madison Square, Washington Square Park, Union Square, Bryant ...

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 82. Chapters: Central Park, Gramercy Park, Madison Square, Washington Square Park, Union Square, Bryant Park, High Line, Tompkins Square Park, Riverside Park, Clement Clarke Moore, Bowling Green, DeWitt Clinton Park, Fort Tryon Park, Battery Park, Inwood Hill Park, 79th Street Boat Basin, Stuyvesant Square, New York Vauxhall Gardens, St. John's Park, Teardrop Park, Hudson River Park, Rucker Park, Collect Pond, Morningside Park, Highbridge Park, Hanover Square, Manhattan, Sakura Park, Foley Square, West Side Community Garden, East River Park, Carl Schurz Park, Paley Park, Marcus Garvey Park, Abingdon Square Park, Verdi Square, Stuyvesant Cove Park, Ralph Bunche Park, Jackson Square Park, Straus Park, St. Nicholas Park, Drumgoole Plaza, Amiable Child Monument, Seward Park, Tompkins First Run, Robert Moses Playground, Bennett Park, Riverbank State Park, Sara Delano Roosevelt Park, Zuccotti Park, Mitchell Square Park, Isham Park, Sherman Square, Vista Rock, Hell's Kitchen Park, John Jay Park, Dante Park, Septuagesimo Uno, Peretz Square. Excerpt: Central Park is a public park in the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on 843 acres (3.41 km) of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan. Construction began the same year and was completed in 1873. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963, the park is currently managed by the Central Park Conservancy under contract with the city government. The Conservancy is a nonprofit organization that contributes 85% of Central Park's $25 million dollar annual budget, and employs 80% of the park's maintenance staff. Central Park, which has been a National Historic Landmark since 1963, was designed by landscape designer and writer Frederick Law Olmsted and the English architect Calvert Vaux in 1858 after winning a design competition. They also designed Brooklyn's Prospect Park. The park, which receives approximately thirty-five million visitors annually, is the most visited urban park in the United States. It was opened on 770 acres (3.1 km) of city-owned land and was expanded to 843 acres (3.41 km; 1.317 sq mi). It is 2.5 miles (4 km) long between 59th Street (Central Park South) and 110th Street (Central Park North), and is 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide between Fifth Avenue and Central Park West. It is similar in size to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, Chicago's Lincoln Park, Vancouver's Stanley Park, and Munich's Englischer Garten. Central Park is bordered on the north by West 110th Street, on the south by West 59th Street, on the west by Eighth Avenue, and on the east by Fifth Avenue. Along the park's borders however, these are known as Central Park North, Central Park South, and Central Park West, respectively. Only Fifth Avenue retains its name as it delineates the eastern border of the park. The park is maintained by the Central Park Conservancy, a private, not-for-profit organization that ma

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Parks in Manhattan

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Central Park, Gramercy Park, Madison Square, Washington Square Park, Union Square, Bryant Park, High Line, Tompkins Square Park, Riverside Park, Clement Clarke Moore, Bowling Green, DeWitt Clinton Park, Fort Tryon Park, Battery Park

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Source: Wikipedia

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