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  2. Central Park - Wikipedia

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    Central Park's size and cultural position has served as a model for many urban parks. [516] [517] Olmsted believed landscape design was a way to improve the feeling of community and had intended the park as the antithesis of the stresses of the city's daily life. [518]

  3. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir - Wikipedia

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    It is a popular place of interest in Central Park. Many joggers have used the 1.58-mile (2.54 km) [21] Stephanie and Fred Shuman Running Track, [22] including Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Madonna, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The track is separated from the water by a fence installed in 2003 to re-create the original 19th-century cast iron fence.

  4. List of parks in New York City - Wikipedia

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    A map showing major greenspaces in New York City: 1) Central Park, 2) Van Cortlandt Park, 3) Bronx Park, 4) Pelham Bay Park, 5) Flushing Meadows Park, 6) Forest Park, 7) Prospect Park, 8) Floyd Bennett Field, 9) Jamaica Bay, A) Jacob Riis Park and Fort Tilden, B) Fort Wadsworth, C) Miller Field, D) Great Kills Park Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States.

  5. List of urban parks by size - Wikipedia

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    Size in acres Size in hectares Description 1 Chugach State Park: Anchorage: United States Alaska State Parks: 495,199.2 200,400.0 Established in 1970, the state park is the largest urban park in the world located entirely within its metropolitan area, and the third largest state park in the United States. 2 Taijiang National Park Tainan Taiwan

  6. Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    In 2019, the most expensive home sale ever in the United States occurred in Manhattan, at a selling price of US$238 million, for a 24,000-square-foot (2,200 m 2) penthouse apartment overlooking Central Park, [232] while Central Park Tower, topped out at 1,550 feet (472 m) in 2019, is the world's tallest residential building, followed globally ...

  7. The Gates - Wikipedia

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    The Gates was a site-specific work of art by Bulgarian artist Christo Yavacheff and French artist Jeanne-Claude, known jointly as Christo and Jeanne-Claude.The artists installed 7,503 steel "gates" along 23 miles (37 km) of pathways in Central Park in New York City.

  8. Grand Army Plaza (Manhattan) - Wikipedia

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    Grand Army Plaza (formerly Fifth Avenue Plaza and Central Park Plaza) is a public square at the southeast corner of Central Park in Manhattan, New York City, near the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Central Park South (59th Street). It consists of two rectangular plots on the west side of Fifth Avenue between 58th and 60th streets.

  9. Pelham Bay Park - Wikipedia

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    At 2,772 acres (1,122 ha), [a] Pelham Bay Park is the city's largest, [5] [130] being slightly more than three times the size of the 843-acre (341 ha) Central Park. [131] [5] Pelham Bay Park includes 13 miles (21 km) of shoreline [131] as well as land on both sides of the Hutchinson River.