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Wetman, I have no objection to your including a link to urban heat island, but that article seems to address factors that apply to urban areas generally. It doesn't include any reference to how a particular small part of an urban area can be affected when construction creates a windbreak, as has happened along 59th Street. It's not a general "urban heat island" effect. In fact, in some places, tall buildings would create a wind tunnel that would have a cooling effect. Is there anything in the analysis of urban heat islands in general that would rule out making an additional reference to how the Lake is now shielded from the wind? JamesMLane 02:47, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I've been in Central Park on wintry days. The problem is that you can't tell how much wind you're not experiencing because it's blocked by the buildings. (On the other hand, I forgot to mention that, along with a possible wind tunnel effect, the buildings might also produce some cooling because of shading.) I don't know whether there's any learning on this subject that's backed by research somewhat more rigorous than standing in the Park in the winter. JamesMLane 14:36, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I added a little note about the notion that Central Park can be dangerous, especially after dark or if you're alone, or both. Tried to keep it brief and non-threatening, because all of New York City has a similar reputation which is, statistically speaking, exaggerated. I also thought it was noteworthy to mention the Central Park Jogger whose assault & rape made major headlines for years in the area, not just in the city itself.
Perhaps as a balance, someone could create a section outlining the more positive image of the park, say "Artistic Depictions" or "Movies Filmed in Central Park" or something like that? -- Feitclub 01:55, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)
The recently-added bit on the Central Park Medical Unit seems a bit too effusive, and somewhat spammish (with three external links to the same webpage in one paragraph). Should it be nuked, or is it a legitimate topic that just needs to be cleaned up? 68.81.231.127 05:48, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I switched Bethesda Fountain images. The former image is at right. Less information, IMHO. -- Wetman 3 July 2005 20:00 (UTC)
The caption below the image of the Red-tailed hawk should have the word 'endemic' removed. This word implied that red-tails are found ONLY in Central Park. Thankfully, this is not true and we have red-tailed hawks in urban and rural areas throughout the United States. 76.242.146.63 ( talk) 01:51, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Please do not chuck around non-standard TOC templates. There is a very good reason why the default TOC is how it is. The floating TOCs were created for extreme cases where a TOC neccesarily has to be very long and would disrupt the article, and that certainly is not the case here. Both templates have been through lengthy votes for deletion, which they only narrowly survived, and in which it was generally agreed that they should not be used at whim. In this particular article {{ TOCleft}} makes the page look ugly in large screen resolution, and difficult to read in low resolution. It is not only unjustified here but positively damaging to the layout. Joe D (t) 21:17, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
The vote on TOCright was 31 keep to 14 delete, which i don't think constitutes having "narrowly survived". There was a wide range of opnion expressed, and there was not, IMO, anything like a general agreement that flaoting TOCs should be used only in "exceptional circumstances". No editing decision should be made on whim, and this choice is no different IMO from any other formatting decision. Looking at the two versions compared above, I don't find either horrid. My personal preference would be for the version with the floating TOC, but I don't think it should be a huge issue either way in this case. More general discussuion on this issse is at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Template:TOCright and I urge thsoe intersted in the general issue to join the discussion there, where suggestions for how to use this feature are still being considered. DES 16:51, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
I adjusted the formatting for TOC placement with what will hopefully be a compromise solution. Although I think the second option listed above appears better than the first, I'm not a big fan of having both left and right alternating images. But that's just my style preference. I floated the TOC to the left after the first paragraph which, because the TOC is not very wide, will not create a very thin column of text between it and the images on the right. This also allows the TOC to appears "above the line" (that is, within the initial visible screen and not having to page down). — Mike 17:45, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
Why is this article so cluttered and disorganized? Central Park is the greatest park in the World, it deserves a way, way better article. -- Mb1000 23:22, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
Finished cleanup/rewrite, but removed the following from "Events"
as these should be expanded before being put into the part regarding activity in the park. Also removed some images, as the old version had way too many. Bjelleklang - [[User_talk:Bjelleklang|talk]] 01:44, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
"Central Park is the greatest park in the World". Citation Required!!!
The last part of the crime section (dealing with the volunteer police) looks more like an advert than an encyclopedia entry. Can someone (with more experience than me) please correct it! Daniel ( ☎) 23:10, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
I deleted the winter image from the image gallery. That is the Municipal Building in the background, meaning the park in the picture is City Hall Park. Whoever added it should add it to the City Hall park article, as it is a very nice picture. Just the wrong park.
Surely, since Noah Webster's unilateral decision to shift the position of the 'e' at the end of 'centre', this should properly be spelt 'Centeral Park'. Grant 16:16, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
I think it is called Central Park not Centeral Park-- Taida 21:23, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
It's actually named for Olmstead's third-grade teacher. Jessa Claire Central became Mrs. Paul Smith many years later, and he was the one who donated all those schools. (Tongue firmly in cheek, and praying that Grant's was, too. Of course, it's always possible that he suffers from a cereberal defect...) Lamabillybob ( talk) 01:30, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Only a very alert Wikipedia reader would realize that the category Central Park includes articles on the park's individual features. Those articles should be linked here in a concise few paragraphs that describe the park's layout before its history is gone into. -- Wetman 13:55, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Any arguments about dramatically trimming the Popular media section? Similiar to what's taken place in the Time Square article, there's so many films shot there that we should keep it higher level. Some specific callouts will still be required, but it wont be a trivia list.
The two are tied together, but it seems a lot of this article is actually about the work the Conservancy does. ( dm 15:51, 14 July 2007 (UTC))
I removed the word from the last paragraph. It is contentious, tabloid language, and added nothing to the story. MarkinBoston 01:10, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Activities include sports, climbing, entertainment and CHILDREN? What on earth is that supposed to mean? Some oblique MJ / Catholic priest reference? Also, how do sport, climbing and entertainment become mutually exclusive? λ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.196.160.105 ( talk) 04:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
I noticed the tag asking for a citation about people flocking to cemeteries for open spaces. I happen to be doing a term paper on Central Park and have a reference where this is mentioned. However, I don't know how to properly cite it. Could somebody help? Here's the relevant information in Turabian footnote format: John Emerson Todd, Frederick Law Olmsted: Twayne’s World Leader Series (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982), 73. Applejaxs ( talk) 02:38, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I deleted the photo with the caption "The 2005 adaptation of Lysistrata performed in Central Park starring Julie Bain and Ton-Essa LaRocque." Seems to me that its a shameless plug for the two actressess appearing in the picture (not surprisingly, a picture that also appears in the Wikipedia entry for "Lysistrata"). There are thousands of live performances in Central Park each year, some sanctioned, some not. I see no reason why this photo, essentially a picture of two women sitting on a rock in central park (i.e., not even performing at the time) should be included in the entertainment section of this article. Loafsta ( talk) 23:39, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm not as against trivia sections as the guidelines, but some common sense needs to be maintained, or we enter the realm of science fiction. One of them says, "The real-estate value of Central Park is estimated to be $528,783,552,000 according to the property-appraisal firm Miller Samuel." There is a footnote, and it exists. It's a blog, part of a list of 'Ten reasons to love New York,' and that list does not provide a footnote. So there's no telling what Miller Samuel actual said, nor what he assumed in coming up with the figure, nor even if the decimal place is right! Second line of defense, does that number make any sense? In the Wikipedia article on Manhattan, the total real-estate value of the island is given as 1.8 trillion dollars, which is quite reasonable, considering that the total wealth of the United states is about a hundred times that (an estimate that assumes that GDP is the accrued earning on wealth at prime rates of interest). Likewise, Rockefeller Center stands on 22 acres and is presently worth about three billion (ref: Wikipedia article), or one six-hundredth of that. That is, we have upper and lower bounds that make the figure appear rational. To assume that 800 acres of nearly raw land is worth thirty percent of the very-intensely-developed Manhattan, which covers 14,000 acres, is absurd. Likewise, that would imply that the presence of landmark world-class buildings on the Rockefeller Center land has reduced its value by seventy-nine percent! What Samuel probably meant was that the park would have that much value IF developed to the same degree as the property that immediately faces it, AND those properties retained their present value. When trying to assess the potential value of adjacent commercial plots, one developed and the other not, that's a reasonable strategy--the doubling actually increases the value of BOTH properties, so the estimate is autmoatically conservative. However, in this case much of the value of those adjacent properties is DUE to facing the Park, so that method would lead to a very dubious estimate. Lamabillybob ( talk) 01:14, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Does anybody know how the rocks or bolders or stones are made i dont think they are real are they??? plese answer on my profile if u know... -- Blackbirdkd ( talk) 05:48, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
I plan to change the lead photo. Although I like it quite a bit, for an article about Central Park we need more park, less skyscraper. --David Shankbone 15:53, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
The following is unsourced information:
While this is interesting, we can't use it unless you provide a source. Also, none of this is really trivia, as trivia by its definition is "unimportant information" - it therefore shouldn't be in a trivia section but instead the information should be incorporated into the main article. - Tbsdy lives ( talk) 00:27, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
The article also uses biased, empty terms including "incredible" and "severe" to describe alleged damage done during prior management of the park without direct attributions. This is inappropriate in any objective writing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.19.197.84 ( talk) 08:04, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
If you look slightly beyond Alice you will just make out a smaller statue of Scottish comic book villain Rank Badyin. This statue was gifted to the people of New York by the City of Glasgow following France's gift of the Statue of Liberty.
Are we using controversy as a synonym for criticism? I thought a controversy was a dispute with two (or more) sides. The campaign to ban carriage horses is just one side in the dispute, even if there's little publicity about the other side.
Better to say that a well-organized and vocal group has targeted Central Parks horse-drawn carriages for banning. We should say who's behind the campaign (if that's at all clear) and give their reasons. If they are concerned with more than animal welfare, we should indicate that - even if they downplay that connection themselves. Are they mainly concerned with animal rights in the PETA sense of granting animals the same rights as human beings? -- Uncle Ed ( talk) 17:33, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
The 2/3 removal was a typographical error, not intended vandalism- apologies, attempted to revert —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.108.235.20 ( talk) 19:51, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
How about a map of the park? To give some idea of the scale and layout. RJFJR ( talk) 18:59, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
if you could describe central park in 3 or 4 adjectives what would you say? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.240.32.199 ( talk) 18:43, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Will someone please be willing to conduct the GA review of this article? I was the nominator, and I nominated this page to be a GA on Christmas Day. Us441 ( talk) 21:55, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Can someone add a satellite picture or map of the island so it can show just how long and how much the park takes up of the island? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.83.226.133 ( talk) 06:55, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
I have noticed a slight disagreement regarding the image size of the Bethesda fountain. I hope that a civil discussion can resolve this dispute before an edit war occurs or someone violates 3RR either actually or in spirit. I myself will not be participating though I do agree that the image should be smaller for aesthetic reasons regarding the how it breaks up the section and flow of prose. Camelbinky ( talk) 22:12, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
Fixed. Epicgenius ( talk) 17:03, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
This quote is quite important but the previous reference was to a dead link. Searching the web for the quote inevitably got a load of people who've cut'n'pasted it from this page. However a bit of searching seems to show the source as I have cited it, on the basis of the Scobey book and the archive listing in American University - http://www.american.edu/library/archives/finding_aids/olmsted_fa_clf03.cfm If I could access the actual letter, I would. Slightlymuddy ( talk) 13:04, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
There's a problem here because the quote we had was incorrect (I'm correcting it now). We had it as follows: "of great importance as the first real Park made in this century—a democratic development of the highest significance…," but if you search that on Google Books it doesn't exist. The correct and more complete quote is: "It is of great importance as the first real park made in this country— a democratic development of the highest significance and on the success of which, in my opinion, much of the progress of art and esthetic culture in this country is dependent." See google books here Fixifex ( talk) 16:19, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
According to http://www.centralpark.com/usr/maps/CentralParkRunningMap.pdf the perimeter is 6.1 miles. The article says 0.5 miles by 2.5 miles. GoogleEarth measured width as 842 metres, curb to curb. What are the exact dimensions (length and width - [in feet or metres]) - say curb to curb or sidewalk interior to sidewalk interior? -- JimWae ( talk) 20:56, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
central park is a great place even a lot of people loved it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.220.28.34 ( talk) 14:18, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Today, the conservancy employs four out of five maintenance and operations staff in the park.
It seems a very big park to only have five members of staff to run the whole thing. Does this mean four fifths of the staff are employed by the conservancy? -- 81.149.74.231 ( talk) 11:07, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
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Archive 1 | Archive 2 |
Wetman, I have no objection to your including a link to urban heat island, but that article seems to address factors that apply to urban areas generally. It doesn't include any reference to how a particular small part of an urban area can be affected when construction creates a windbreak, as has happened along 59th Street. It's not a general "urban heat island" effect. In fact, in some places, tall buildings would create a wind tunnel that would have a cooling effect. Is there anything in the analysis of urban heat islands in general that would rule out making an additional reference to how the Lake is now shielded from the wind? JamesMLane 02:47, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I've been in Central Park on wintry days. The problem is that you can't tell how much wind you're not experiencing because it's blocked by the buildings. (On the other hand, I forgot to mention that, along with a possible wind tunnel effect, the buildings might also produce some cooling because of shading.) I don't know whether there's any learning on this subject that's backed by research somewhat more rigorous than standing in the Park in the winter. JamesMLane 14:36, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I added a little note about the notion that Central Park can be dangerous, especially after dark or if you're alone, or both. Tried to keep it brief and non-threatening, because all of New York City has a similar reputation which is, statistically speaking, exaggerated. I also thought it was noteworthy to mention the Central Park Jogger whose assault & rape made major headlines for years in the area, not just in the city itself.
Perhaps as a balance, someone could create a section outlining the more positive image of the park, say "Artistic Depictions" or "Movies Filmed in Central Park" or something like that? -- Feitclub 01:55, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)
The recently-added bit on the Central Park Medical Unit seems a bit too effusive, and somewhat spammish (with three external links to the same webpage in one paragraph). Should it be nuked, or is it a legitimate topic that just needs to be cleaned up? 68.81.231.127 05:48, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I switched Bethesda Fountain images. The former image is at right. Less information, IMHO. -- Wetman 3 July 2005 20:00 (UTC)
The caption below the image of the Red-tailed hawk should have the word 'endemic' removed. This word implied that red-tails are found ONLY in Central Park. Thankfully, this is not true and we have red-tailed hawks in urban and rural areas throughout the United States. 76.242.146.63 ( talk) 01:51, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Please do not chuck around non-standard TOC templates. There is a very good reason why the default TOC is how it is. The floating TOCs were created for extreme cases where a TOC neccesarily has to be very long and would disrupt the article, and that certainly is not the case here. Both templates have been through lengthy votes for deletion, which they only narrowly survived, and in which it was generally agreed that they should not be used at whim. In this particular article {{ TOCleft}} makes the page look ugly in large screen resolution, and difficult to read in low resolution. It is not only unjustified here but positively damaging to the layout. Joe D (t) 21:17, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
The vote on TOCright was 31 keep to 14 delete, which i don't think constitutes having "narrowly survived". There was a wide range of opnion expressed, and there was not, IMO, anything like a general agreement that flaoting TOCs should be used only in "exceptional circumstances". No editing decision should be made on whim, and this choice is no different IMO from any other formatting decision. Looking at the two versions compared above, I don't find either horrid. My personal preference would be for the version with the floating TOC, but I don't think it should be a huge issue either way in this case. More general discussuion on this issse is at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Template:TOCright and I urge thsoe intersted in the general issue to join the discussion there, where suggestions for how to use this feature are still being considered. DES 16:51, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
I adjusted the formatting for TOC placement with what will hopefully be a compromise solution. Although I think the second option listed above appears better than the first, I'm not a big fan of having both left and right alternating images. But that's just my style preference. I floated the TOC to the left after the first paragraph which, because the TOC is not very wide, will not create a very thin column of text between it and the images on the right. This also allows the TOC to appears "above the line" (that is, within the initial visible screen and not having to page down). — Mike 17:45, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
Why is this article so cluttered and disorganized? Central Park is the greatest park in the World, it deserves a way, way better article. -- Mb1000 23:22, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
Finished cleanup/rewrite, but removed the following from "Events"
as these should be expanded before being put into the part regarding activity in the park. Also removed some images, as the old version had way too many. Bjelleklang - [[User_talk:Bjelleklang|talk]] 01:44, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
"Central Park is the greatest park in the World". Citation Required!!!
The last part of the crime section (dealing with the volunteer police) looks more like an advert than an encyclopedia entry. Can someone (with more experience than me) please correct it! Daniel ( ☎) 23:10, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
I deleted the winter image from the image gallery. That is the Municipal Building in the background, meaning the park in the picture is City Hall Park. Whoever added it should add it to the City Hall park article, as it is a very nice picture. Just the wrong park.
Surely, since Noah Webster's unilateral decision to shift the position of the 'e' at the end of 'centre', this should properly be spelt 'Centeral Park'. Grant 16:16, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
I think it is called Central Park not Centeral Park-- Taida 21:23, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
It's actually named for Olmstead's third-grade teacher. Jessa Claire Central became Mrs. Paul Smith many years later, and he was the one who donated all those schools. (Tongue firmly in cheek, and praying that Grant's was, too. Of course, it's always possible that he suffers from a cereberal defect...) Lamabillybob ( talk) 01:30, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Only a very alert Wikipedia reader would realize that the category Central Park includes articles on the park's individual features. Those articles should be linked here in a concise few paragraphs that describe the park's layout before its history is gone into. -- Wetman 13:55, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
Any arguments about dramatically trimming the Popular media section? Similiar to what's taken place in the Time Square article, there's so many films shot there that we should keep it higher level. Some specific callouts will still be required, but it wont be a trivia list.
The two are tied together, but it seems a lot of this article is actually about the work the Conservancy does. ( dm 15:51, 14 July 2007 (UTC))
I removed the word from the last paragraph. It is contentious, tabloid language, and added nothing to the story. MarkinBoston 01:10, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Activities include sports, climbing, entertainment and CHILDREN? What on earth is that supposed to mean? Some oblique MJ / Catholic priest reference? Also, how do sport, climbing and entertainment become mutually exclusive? λ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.196.160.105 ( talk) 04:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
I noticed the tag asking for a citation about people flocking to cemeteries for open spaces. I happen to be doing a term paper on Central Park and have a reference where this is mentioned. However, I don't know how to properly cite it. Could somebody help? Here's the relevant information in Turabian footnote format: John Emerson Todd, Frederick Law Olmsted: Twayne’s World Leader Series (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982), 73. Applejaxs ( talk) 02:38, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I deleted the photo with the caption "The 2005 adaptation of Lysistrata performed in Central Park starring Julie Bain and Ton-Essa LaRocque." Seems to me that its a shameless plug for the two actressess appearing in the picture (not surprisingly, a picture that also appears in the Wikipedia entry for "Lysistrata"). There are thousands of live performances in Central Park each year, some sanctioned, some not. I see no reason why this photo, essentially a picture of two women sitting on a rock in central park (i.e., not even performing at the time) should be included in the entertainment section of this article. Loafsta ( talk) 23:39, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm not as against trivia sections as the guidelines, but some common sense needs to be maintained, or we enter the realm of science fiction. One of them says, "The real-estate value of Central Park is estimated to be $528,783,552,000 according to the property-appraisal firm Miller Samuel." There is a footnote, and it exists. It's a blog, part of a list of 'Ten reasons to love New York,' and that list does not provide a footnote. So there's no telling what Miller Samuel actual said, nor what he assumed in coming up with the figure, nor even if the decimal place is right! Second line of defense, does that number make any sense? In the Wikipedia article on Manhattan, the total real-estate value of the island is given as 1.8 trillion dollars, which is quite reasonable, considering that the total wealth of the United states is about a hundred times that (an estimate that assumes that GDP is the accrued earning on wealth at prime rates of interest). Likewise, Rockefeller Center stands on 22 acres and is presently worth about three billion (ref: Wikipedia article), or one six-hundredth of that. That is, we have upper and lower bounds that make the figure appear rational. To assume that 800 acres of nearly raw land is worth thirty percent of the very-intensely-developed Manhattan, which covers 14,000 acres, is absurd. Likewise, that would imply that the presence of landmark world-class buildings on the Rockefeller Center land has reduced its value by seventy-nine percent! What Samuel probably meant was that the park would have that much value IF developed to the same degree as the property that immediately faces it, AND those properties retained their present value. When trying to assess the potential value of adjacent commercial plots, one developed and the other not, that's a reasonable strategy--the doubling actually increases the value of BOTH properties, so the estimate is autmoatically conservative. However, in this case much of the value of those adjacent properties is DUE to facing the Park, so that method would lead to a very dubious estimate. Lamabillybob ( talk) 01:14, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
Does anybody know how the rocks or bolders or stones are made i dont think they are real are they??? plese answer on my profile if u know... -- Blackbirdkd ( talk) 05:48, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
I plan to change the lead photo. Although I like it quite a bit, for an article about Central Park we need more park, less skyscraper. --David Shankbone 15:53, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
The following is unsourced information:
While this is interesting, we can't use it unless you provide a source. Also, none of this is really trivia, as trivia by its definition is "unimportant information" - it therefore shouldn't be in a trivia section but instead the information should be incorporated into the main article. - Tbsdy lives ( talk) 00:27, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
The article also uses biased, empty terms including "incredible" and "severe" to describe alleged damage done during prior management of the park without direct attributions. This is inappropriate in any objective writing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.19.197.84 ( talk) 08:04, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
If you look slightly beyond Alice you will just make out a smaller statue of Scottish comic book villain Rank Badyin. This statue was gifted to the people of New York by the City of Glasgow following France's gift of the Statue of Liberty.
Are we using controversy as a synonym for criticism? I thought a controversy was a dispute with two (or more) sides. The campaign to ban carriage horses is just one side in the dispute, even if there's little publicity about the other side.
Better to say that a well-organized and vocal group has targeted Central Parks horse-drawn carriages for banning. We should say who's behind the campaign (if that's at all clear) and give their reasons. If they are concerned with more than animal welfare, we should indicate that - even if they downplay that connection themselves. Are they mainly concerned with animal rights in the PETA sense of granting animals the same rights as human beings? -- Uncle Ed ( talk) 17:33, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
The 2/3 removal was a typographical error, not intended vandalism- apologies, attempted to revert —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.108.235.20 ( talk) 19:51, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
How about a map of the park? To give some idea of the scale and layout. RJFJR ( talk) 18:59, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
if you could describe central park in 3 or 4 adjectives what would you say? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.240.32.199 ( talk) 18:43, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Will someone please be willing to conduct the GA review of this article? I was the nominator, and I nominated this page to be a GA on Christmas Day. Us441 ( talk) 21:55, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Can someone add a satellite picture or map of the island so it can show just how long and how much the park takes up of the island? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.83.226.133 ( talk) 06:55, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
I have noticed a slight disagreement regarding the image size of the Bethesda fountain. I hope that a civil discussion can resolve this dispute before an edit war occurs or someone violates 3RR either actually or in spirit. I myself will not be participating though I do agree that the image should be smaller for aesthetic reasons regarding the how it breaks up the section and flow of prose. Camelbinky ( talk) 22:12, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
Fixed. Epicgenius ( talk) 17:03, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
This quote is quite important but the previous reference was to a dead link. Searching the web for the quote inevitably got a load of people who've cut'n'pasted it from this page. However a bit of searching seems to show the source as I have cited it, on the basis of the Scobey book and the archive listing in American University - http://www.american.edu/library/archives/finding_aids/olmsted_fa_clf03.cfm If I could access the actual letter, I would. Slightlymuddy ( talk) 13:04, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
There's a problem here because the quote we had was incorrect (I'm correcting it now). We had it as follows: "of great importance as the first real Park made in this century—a democratic development of the highest significance…," but if you search that on Google Books it doesn't exist. The correct and more complete quote is: "It is of great importance as the first real park made in this country— a democratic development of the highest significance and on the success of which, in my opinion, much of the progress of art and esthetic culture in this country is dependent." See google books here Fixifex ( talk) 16:19, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
According to http://www.centralpark.com/usr/maps/CentralParkRunningMap.pdf the perimeter is 6.1 miles. The article says 0.5 miles by 2.5 miles. GoogleEarth measured width as 842 metres, curb to curb. What are the exact dimensions (length and width - [in feet or metres]) - say curb to curb or sidewalk interior to sidewalk interior? -- JimWae ( talk) 20:56, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
central park is a great place even a lot of people loved it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.220.28.34 ( talk) 14:18, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Today, the conservancy employs four out of five maintenance and operations staff in the park.
It seems a very big park to only have five members of staff to run the whole thing. Does this mean four fifths of the staff are employed by the conservancy? -- 81.149.74.231 ( talk) 11:07, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
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