As I was walking along the east side of Central Park recently, I ran into a World War I memorial. It’s just off 66th Street or so and is dedicated to New York’s Seventh Regiment of the One Hundred and Seventh US Infantry. It comes from an era where the symbolism is a bit less…symbolic. I have [...]
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Central Park World War I Memorial
February 9, 2008A free peak into the Central Park Zoo
February 8, 2008The Zoo is nestled in the east side of the Park and is a popular family destination. I’ve been by it a hundred times, but I recently was walking along Fifth Avenue and found that you can glance into it from street level. There are some neat “tree trunks” that are a big as small sheds. I presume [...]
Balto in Central Park
January 31, 2008Central Park isn’t famous for statues. It’s one of those things that you don’t think about…but try to think of a famous statue in Central Park and you’re hard-pressed to come up with some. The exception is probably Balto. I don’t know why, but I spent my youth in complete ignorance of Balto and only [...]
Central Park’s Bethesda Fountain
October 2, 2007If you’re in Central Park on any weekend with wonderful weather, prepare to run into the Brides! If you’re at Bethesda Fountain and don’t see a Bride, you ain’t lookin’. Okay, it’s a wild exaggeration but bridal couples, and often just the bride, can be seen actually dashing from one area in Central Park to [...]
Belvedere Castle in Central Park
September 30, 2007Whatever else it may be, Central Park is diverse and varied and just all over the place in terms of what’s there and what you can see at any one time. When it was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux , they seem to take to the idea of it being impossible to see [...]
