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Central Park is a magnififcent urban wonder created by Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux. The park includes a lake, a zoo, bird watching, trails, a picnic area, statues, ice skating, a mall, a conservatory garden. You can also ride the ponies, climb a castle, and watch Shakespeare. This famous park is deeply rooted and intertwined with the history of New York. In the 1840s the urbanization of Manhattan was on full swing. This motivated poet editor William Cullen Bryant and the landscape architect Andrew Jackson Downing to do something about it. Their views gained widespread support from the public mostly due to the already magnificent parks in London and Paris. In 1856 most of the present day park was bought by the New York legislature.

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