Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City that was the first landscaped park in the United States. It is the sixth-largest park in the city, containing 843 acres (341 ha), and the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 42 million visitors annually as of 2016.
Aerial view of southern Central Park (September 2014)
Panoramic view of Central Park from Rockefeller Center
Central Park in 2004
Randel's surveying bolt
An urban park or metropolitan park, also known as a city park, municipal park, public park, public open space, or municipal gardens (UK), is a park or botanical garden in cities, densely populated suburbia and other incorporated places that offers green space and places for recreation to residents and visitors. Urban parks are generally landscaped by design, instead of lands left in their natural state. The design, operation and maintenance is usually done by government agencies, typically on the local level, but may occasionally be contracted out to a park conservancy, "friends of" group, or private sector company.
Central Park, one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, is surrounded by the skyscrapers of Manhattan in New York City.
Macon, Georgia Central City Park, Main Avenue, c. 1877
A concert in Chicago's Lincoln Park, c. 1907
Millennium Park is an urban park in Chicago that is partitioned into areas with various special uses