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Central park is a park located in the New York City. It is between the Upper west side and the upper east sides of Manhattan. It is the 5th biggest park in the city that covers 843 acres. Central Park is the most visited urban park in the whole United States that has about 42 million visitors in a year as estimated in the year of 2016.
Central park was created in the year 1857 to 1876 and is now owned by NYC Parks. It is named as U.S. National Register of Historic Places, U.S. National Historic landmark and NYC Scenic Landmark. Fredrick Law Olmsted and Clavert Vaux are the landscape architects of the Central Park. They won a design competition with their Greensward plan. It has about 4 km (2.5 miles ) from north to south and 0.8 km (0.5 miles) from east to west. The central park has natural landforms and plantings, it was almost entirely landscaped when built in 1850s and 1860s. It has 8 lakes and ponds created artificially by damming flows.
It is maintained by the Central Park conservancy, which is a non profit private organization. It is also patrolled by its own New York City Police Department's precinct which is the 22nd Precinct. By the survey of 2011, this park had almost 20,000 trees. It has 10 “great tree” clusters recognized by NYC Parks.
The central park contained 18 gates. A circular plaza, Columbus Circle at the southwestern corner .
Cleopatra's Needle is one of the three similarly named egyptian obelisks in N Y C. It was built in Central park on january 22 of the year 1881. This structure was made of red granite and stands about 70 feet, that is 21 metres high and weighs 200 tons. It is also inscribed with egyptian heiroglyphs. The granite used was initially brought from Aswan's quarries by the first cataract of the Nile.
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