The Central Park I Never Knew
This morning as part of the certificate part of the internship programme I was required to take an Architectural tour round a neighbourhood of New York City. So I chose to walk off Friday night's beers around Manhattan's 'emerald jewel', the one and only Central Park.
The tour of this vast man made park took us from the an East Side entrance at 64th Street to our exit point on the West Side at 72nd Street. On our way we saw the Arsenal building (one of two things that were located there before the park was built), the Central Park Zoo, schist (Central Park's other native - it's a type of rock formation), The Mall a.k.a. Literary Walk, the fountain in the photograph below (I can't remember its name!), The Ramble (a part of the park designed to feel like you are walking in a remote part of upstate NY and a great place to get lost), The Lake (that's its name - precise I think!) and finally Strawberry Fields (the area of the park designed in memory of John Lennon). All that in 2 short hours......goodbye hangover!
A 'typical' Central Park scene
The Lake
The tour of this vast man made park took us from the an East Side entrance at 64th Street to our exit point on the West Side at 72nd Street. On our way we saw the Arsenal building (one of two things that were located there before the park was built), the Central Park Zoo, schist (Central Park's other native - it's a type of rock formation), The Mall a.k.a. Literary Walk, the fountain in the photograph below (I can't remember its name!), The Ramble (a part of the park designed to feel like you are walking in a remote part of upstate NY and a great place to get lost), The Lake (that's its name - precise I think!) and finally Strawberry Fields (the area of the park designed in memory of John Lennon). All that in 2 short hours......goodbye hangover!
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A 'typical' Central Park sceneUmm...the fountain!
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The Lake.jpg)
Strawberry Fields
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