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The Central Park Zoo is a 6.5-acre (2.6 ha) zoo located at the southeast corner of Central Park in New York City. It is part of an integrated system of four zoos and one aquarium managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). In conjunction with the Central Park Zoo's operations, the WCS offers children's educational programs, is engaged ...
Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, and the first landscaped park in the United States.. It is the sixth-largest park in the city, containing 843 acres (341 ha), and the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 42 million visitors annually as of 2016
The crew of teenagers made similar comparisons between themselves and the animals in the nearby zoo. The Central Park Zoo at that time was a classical 19th-century menagerie, populated by wild animals displayed in open-air cages, who paced the bars back and forth neurotically—always hoping for an escape, yet paradoxically blind to the world ...
The Dairy, Central Park, in 2013. The Dairy is a small building in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City, designed by the architect Calvert Vaux.The building was completed in 1871 as a restaurant but is now one of the park's five visitor centers managed by the Central Park Conservancy, and also contains a gift shop. [1]
The zoo said collisions with buildings in New York City have been estimated to kill more than 200,000 migratory birds annually, a number echoed by the nonprofit NYC Audubon.
The Century Association is a private social, arts, and dining club in New York City, founded in 1847. Its clubhouse is located at 7 West 43rd Street near Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan . It is primarily a club for men and women with distinction in literature or the arts.
The Bitter End is a 230-person capacity nightclub, coffeehouse and folk music venue in New York City's Greenwich Village. It opened in 1961 at 147 Bleecker Street under the auspices of owner Fred Weintraub. The club changed its name to The Other End in June 1975. However, after a few years the owners changed the club's name back to the more ...
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Knopf. ISBN 978-0-394-48076-3. OCLC 834874. Carroll, Raymond (May 1, 2008). The Complete Illustrated Map and Guidebook to Central Park. New York: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 9781402758331. Rosenzweig, Roy & Blackmar, Elizabeth (1992). The Park and the People: A ...