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[26] [27] On the north shore, the Conservancy built the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, an environmental education center, and the first information center at the north end of Central Park. The 5,200-square-foot (480 m 2 ) building was designed by the architects Buttrick White & Burtis in a style intended to “reinforce the romantic ...
A View in 2005 of The Dana Discovery Center, Harlem Meer, Central Park, New York City~~~~ 2017-07-30 14:03:44: 2048 × 1462: Buckyboot: A View in 2005 of The Dana Discovery Center, Harlem Meer, Central Park, New York City~~~~
The Conservancy operates five visitor centers in Central Park: Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, Belvedere Castle, Chess & Checkers House, the Dairy, and Columbus Circle. These visitor centers distribute maps and other information about the park. [87] [88] The Dairy contains the park's official gift shop. [89]
Another project, the Dana Discovery Center, a venue for environmental education, was the centerpiece of the Central Park Conservancy's 1990–93 reconstruction of Harlem Meer, an eleven-acre lake in Central Park's northeast corner.
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The park has five visitor centers: Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, Belvedere Castle, Chess & Checkers House, the Dairy, and Columbus Circle. [6] [7] The park has been described as the first landscaped park in the United States. [8] It has natural-looking plantings and landforms, having been almost entirely landscaped when built in the 1850s ...
Privately owned public spaces (POPS) in New York City were introduced in the 1961 Zoning Resolution. The city offers zoning concessions to commercial and residential developers in exchange for a variety of spaces accessible and usable for the public. There are over 590 POPS at over 380 buildings in New York City and are found principally in Manhattan. Spaces range from extended sidewalks to ...
The park's first head gardener, Ignatz Anton Pilát, stored plants at the site of Conservatory Garden during the construction of Central Park. [2]: 55–56 At the time, park architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux wanted to landscape most of the northeast corner of Central Park as part of an arboretum, including the site of the current Conservatory Garden and Harlem Meer.