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By traveling the Central Park at night, the author’s ambivalence (the mixed feeling) makes clear New Yorkers’ attitude to the Park.
On one hand, there is love and pride New Yorkers have for the cultural richness and the beauty the Park offers; on the other hand, the crime and fear they have associated with the Park.
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Central Park Location on Manhattan Map
New York’s green rectangle
Central Park
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the urban wonders of the world, a green oasis in the great concrete, high-rise landscape of New York City
Central Park
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For most New Yorkers, Central Park is our constant definition of open space, room to run and the romance of reading under a tree. Free and open to the public, Central Park is our citywide campus and our common backyard.
“a garden for all as private Eden”
Central Park
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In Central Park, Roller skating has always been a popular recreational pastime.
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Tigress and Cubs
Inside the Central Park Wildlife Conservation Center,
64th Street and Fifth Avenue
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Groups of Bears: near Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
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The Park was pressed for primarily by wealthy merchants and landowners. In the first decade after its completion, it was clearly the playground of the wealthy. It was located too far uptown to be within walking distance for the city’s working class population.
Central Park History
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Until the late 19th century, workers comprised but a fraction of the visitors to the Park when they launched a successful campaign to have concerts held on Sundays.
Saturday afternoon concerts were for middle-class audiences, for the six-day working week
precluded (prevent from ) attendance by the
working class.
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Indeed the concept of creating the park was originally conceived by wealthy New Yorkers who admired the public grounds of London and Paris.
However, with the maturing of the