The first major public example of landscape architecture, Manhattan's Central Park remains the greatest illustration of the American park, a tradition that would become part of nearly every community following the 1860s. This grand park offers...

Central Park is a large public, urban park (843 acres, 3.41 km², 1.32 mi²; a rectangle 2.5 statute miles by 0.5 statute mile, or 4 km × 800 m) in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. With about twenty-five million visitors annually,...

Reverting to nature Walker's paradise The crack of the bat wouldn't be silenced in Lancaster County Central Park. Kids would still splash in the pool, and skateboards would rumble in an expanded skatepark. Central Park, for the sports-minded or those who...

Lipman, Steve The Jewish Week 11-22-2002 It's a place for jogging and bocce, for listening to concerts on the lawn and cutting through Midtown traffic -- a rural miracle of planning in an urban setting. And for Sandee Brawarsky, it's a place...

Location: What’s the value of living near a New York City park? Benepe: I think it’s the crucial factor for many people when choosing where they live and where they invest their money and develop. Soon after I became parks commissioner, I noticed...

Rendering of 15 C.P.W. When the New York Times profiled the burgeoning trend of ultra-lush, real estate bashes--complete with pop stars and haute cuisine--developer Arthur Zeckendorf seemed unimpressed. "I cannot say that we've had to do that," he told Motoko Rich. "It's probably a lot...