TOUR TO CENTRAL PARK WITH BUS GUIDE OF NEW YORK

TOUR TO CENTRAL PARK WITH BUS GUIDE OF NEW YORK

Central Park is used by around 20 million people a year: joggers, skateboarders, birdwatchers, cyclists, sunbathers and also chessplayers. Central Park is also the first public park in America and is a product of revision and compromise. Its inspiration was the great parks of London and Paris. Wealthy New Yorkers believed that a park in New York would add to the city more prestige, give them a place to drive their carriages and provide the working classes with beautiful recreation. When you visit central park today you will see constant improvements, undertaken at the initiative of the Central Park Conservancy.

Central park's naturalistic landscaping successfully hides its mostly man-made origins. The area, now 843 acres, was filled with shanties and small farms, when the state legislature in 1853 authorized the city to seize a 700 acre parcel in the middle of Manhattan. Four years later, the central park commission held a contest to determine the design of the park. The winning entry, a Greensward plan", based on a romantic landscaping notions popular in England was submitted by Frederick law Olmsted, who would oversee its construction as the park's superintendent.

I took some 20.000 people and 20 years to construct central park, which opened in 1859, before work was complete. In that time they removed almst 3 million cubic yards of soil and blasted the rocks to create pictoresque effects.