Central Park, New York City, United States

Central Park

 is a large park located in Manhattan,
 New York City, United States. An area of ​​3.4 km ², and receives annually about 37.5 million visitors. [and won the Frederick Law Olmsted design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan to improve the grass. Construction began in the same year, and construction workers continued during the American Civil War, and construction was completed in 1873. Became a National Historic Landmark in 1962 and maintain the non-profit organization that contributes 83.5% of Central Park budget of $ 37.5 million a year, and placed 80.7% of the money to pay the salary of staff and maintenance in the park.

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 Central Park, New York City, United States

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And the garden has been designed, which was a National Historic Landmark since 1963, by the landscape designer and writer Frederick Law Olmsted in 1858 after winning the design competition. It is also designed Brooklyn Prospect Park. And limiting Central Park from the north-west Road 110, from Southwest 59th Street, and West Street 8. Along the border in the garden.

Central Park, New York City, United States

Visitors

Receive Central Park about five and thirty million visitors a year,  and is one of the most urban areas in the United States received for tourists and visitors. [ and opened on 770 acres (3.1 km2) of land owned by the city and expanded to 843 acres. Is 2.5 miles (4 km) long between 59th Street (Central Park), and Road 110 (Central Park North), and is 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide between Fifth Avenue and West Central Park. And has served as its size and its cultural as a model for parks urban many including the Gate San Francisco Park Golden, and Ueno Park in Tokyo, and a park in Vancouver Stanley, but geography restricted uniquely from Manhattan, and made this park is an integral part of the identity of the city her.

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Maintenance

Is maintained Central Park, especially, by the non-profit organization that manages the park under a contract with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation Committee.

The system works well even in 2006 was maintained parks historic initiative Harlem, and provide support in the area of ​​maintenance and gardening and guidance in the garden of Morningside, St. Nicholas Park, Jackie Robinson Park, and Marcus Garvey Park.