{"id":3744,"date":"2026-08-04T14:20:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/central-park-manhattan-2"},"modified":"2026-08-06T01:49:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:49:31","slug":"central-park-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/central-park-manhattan","title":{"rendered":"Central Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"padrino-inject-root\">\n<div class=\"padrino-inject-inner\">\n<div data-padrino-shell=\"1\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/top-parks\">\u2190 TOP 10 venues in Manhattan \u2014 best parks 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>Park<\/strong> \u00b7 <span>Manhattan<\/span> \u00b7 \u2b50 9.7\/10 \u00b7 300482 reviews  \u00b7 <em>updated: 2026-08-04 20:06:31<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>Address:<\/strong> <span>New York, United States<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex is-nowrap wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"tel:+1212-310-6600\">Call<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/dir\/?api=1&amp;destination=40.7825547,-73.9655834\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get directions<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_74 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a78820543ae4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a78820543ae4\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/central-park-manhattan\/#Central_Park_%E2%80%94_843_acres_of_engineered_wilderness_in_the_middle_of_Manhattan\" >Central Park \u2014 843 acres of engineered wilderness in the middle of Manhattan<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/central-park-manhattan\/#Highlights\" >Highlights<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/central-park-manhattan\/#What_youll_find\" >What you&#8217;ll find<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/central-park-manhattan\/#Things_to_do_%E2%80%94_and_who_its_for\" >Things to do \u2014 and who it&#8217;s for<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/central-park-manhattan\/#Getting_there_practical\" >Getting there &amp; practical<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/central-park-manhattan\/#When_to_visit\" >When to visit<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/central-park-manhattan\/#Good_to_know\" >Good to know<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/central-park-manhattan\/#Visitor_tips\" >Visitor tips<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/central-park-manhattan\/#Questions_answers\" >Questions &amp; answers<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/manhattanname.com\/en\/central-park-manhattan\/#Photos\" >Photos<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Central_Park_%E2%80%94_843_acres_of_engineered_wilderness_in_the_middle_of_Manhattan\"><\/span>Central Park \u2014 843 acres of engineered wilderness in the middle of Manhattan<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Nothing here is accidental. The meadows, the woodland, the lakes that look like glacial leftovers \u2014 all of it was drawn on paper, blasted out of Manhattan schist and planted by hand between 1857 and 1876. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won the design competition in April 1858 with a submission they called the Greensward Plan, and the park that grew from it is the most visited urban park in the United States, drawing roughly 42 million people a year across 843 acres \u2014 two and a half miles from end to end, half a mile across. It is also a place with an uncomfortable origin: the land was taken by eminent domain from about 1,600 people, among them the residents of Seneca Village, the city&#8217;s first significant community of free Black landowners. Both facts belong to the park, and both are worth carrying with you as you walk it.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Highlights\"><\/span>Highlights<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bethesda Terrace and Fountain<\/strong> \u2014 the formal heart of the park, designed by Calvert Vaux with sculptural detail by Jacob Wrey Mould. The Angel of the Waters at its centre was modelled by Emma Stebbins, cast in Munich and dedicated on 31 May 1873, making Stebbins the first woman to receive a major public art commission from the City of New York. Four cherubs beneath the angel stand for Temperance, Purity, Health and Peace, and the figure honours the Croton Aqueduct, which had brought clean water to a cholera-plagued city in 1842. The arcade below carries a ceiling of roughly 15,000 Minton encaustic tiles \u2014 removed for safekeeping in the 1980s and painstakingly reinstalled in 2007.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Ramble<\/strong> \u2014 thirty-six acres of intentionally disorienting woodland, laced with narrow switchback paths, a stream and rustic bridges. Olmsted designed it as a &#8220;wild garden&#8221;; today it sits squarely on the Atlantic Flyway, and birders have logged more than 270 species here in a single year, which is why it is one of the best-known migration hotspots in North America.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir<\/strong> \u2014 106 acres of open water holding over a billion gallons, built as part of the Croton water system and decommissioned in 1993. The 1.58-mile cinder track that rings it is the city&#8217;s most famous running loop, and the reservoir was renamed in 1994 for the resident who ran it almost daily.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bow Bridge<\/strong> \u2014 cast in 1862 to a design by Vaux and Mould, it arcs across the Lake between Cherry Hill and the Ramble and is the oldest cast-iron bridge in the park and among the oldest surviving in the country. Its shallow bow and eight urn-topped panels have made it the single most photographed structure in the park.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sheep Meadow<\/strong> \u2014 fifteen acres of open lawn that carried the name literally: a flock of about 200 Southdown sheep grazed here from 1864 until 1934, when Parks Commissioner Robert Moses shipped them to Brooklyn and converted their Victorian sheepfold into the restaurant Tavern on the Green.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Strawberry Fields<\/strong> \u2014 a 2.5-acre memorial to John Lennon dedicated on 9 October 1985, on what would have been his forty-fifth birthday. Yoko Ono funded the landscaping and endowment; Bruce Kelly designed it as a living memorial rather than a statue, and the black-and-white Imagine mosaic at its centre was a gift from the city of Naples. The whole area is a designated quiet zone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_youll_find\"><\/span>What you&#8217;ll find<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Central Park is not one landscape but a sequence of them, and the shift from one to the next is the point of the design. Olmsted and Vaux buried four transverse roads below grade so crosstown traffic would pass unseen, then arranged pastoral meadow, formal promenade, picturesque woodland and open water so that a walker moves between moods without ever seeing the join. Thirty-six bridges and arches carry the paths over and under one another, and no two are alike.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Great Lawn and the Delacorte Theater<\/strong> \u2014 fifty-five acres of turf and ball fields occupying the footprint of the rectangular Croton Receiving Reservoir, drained in 1931 and filled with spoil from Rockefeller Center&#8217;s excavation. Its emptied basin sheltered a Depression-era shantytown before it became lawn. Beside it, the open-air Delacorte, built in 1962 with money from publisher George Delacorte, has hosted free Shakespeare in the Park ever since; it reopened in 2025 after a full rebuild.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Belvedere Castle<\/strong> \u2014 Vaux&#8217;s folly on the outcrop of Vista Rock, finished in 1869 as a viewing platform with no interior purpose at all. It has housed the National Weather Service&#8217;s official Central Park instruments since 1919, which means the temperature quoted for New York City is measured here.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Mall and Literary Walk<\/strong> \u2014 the park&#8217;s only straight line, a broad promenade roofed by one of the largest surviving stands of American elms in North America. Its southern stretch is lined with nineteenth-century statues of Shakespeare, Robert Burns, Walter Scott and the once-famous American poet Fitz-Greene Halleck.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Lake, the Loeb Boathouse and Conservatory Water<\/strong> \u2014 rowboats and a Venetian gondola work the Lake in season, while the small formal basin of Conservatory Water is the model-sailboat pond, flanked by Jos\u00e9 de Creeft&#8217;s 1959 bronze Alice in Wonderland group, a gift from George Delacorte, and a Hans Christian Andersen statue.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The northern park<\/strong> \u2014 quieter and more rugged: the North Woods with its man-made stream, the Loch, and the Ravine, the eleven-acre Harlem Meer with the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, the six-acre Conservatory Garden divided into English, Italianate and French sections behind the Vanderbilt Gate of 1939, and the new Davis Center, completed in 2025.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Landmarks and oddities<\/strong> \u2014 the Obelisk known as Cleopatra&#8217;s Needle, a genuine Egyptian monolith some 3,500 years old raised in the park on 22 February 1881 and the oldest outdoor monument in the city; the 1908 Stein &amp; Goldstein carousel rescued from a Coney Island trolley terminal and installed here in 1951; the Central Park Zoo, chartered as a menagerie in 1864 and rebuilt as a modern zoo that reopened on 8 August 1988; and the bronze of the sled dog Balto, unveiled on 17 December 1925 with the dog himself present.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Things_to_do_%E2%80%94_and_who_its_for\"><\/span>Things to do \u2014 and who it&#8217;s for<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First-time visitors<\/strong> \u2014 the classic spine runs from the southern ponds through the Mall and Literary Walk to Bethesda Terrace, over Bow Bridge and into the Ramble; two hours at a slow pace covers the images most people came for.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Birdwatchers<\/strong> \u2014 the Ramble, the North Woods and the Loch in late April and early May deliver warbler migration at a density found almost nowhere else on the east coast; binoculars and an early start are the whole method.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Runners and cyclists<\/strong> \u2014 the 6.1 miles of park drives have been closed to cars since June 2018, giving a full loop with real climbs on the western side, plus the 1.58-mile reservoir track for a flatter, faster circuit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Families with children<\/strong> \u2014 twenty-one playgrounds, the carousel, the zoo with its sea lion pool, the model-boat pond, the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre and the climbable Alice group make a full day without ever leaving the southern half.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Culture seekers<\/strong> \u2014 free summer Shakespeare at the Delacorte, the SummerStage concert programme, and a location list that includes the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History sitting directly on the park&#8217;s edges.<\/li>\n<li><strong>People who want to be alone<\/strong> \u2014 the Hallett Nature Sanctuary, fenced off as a bird refuge in 1934 and reopened to visitors in 2016, and the wooded northern ravines are genuinely quiet even on crowded weekends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Getting_there_practical\"><\/span>Getting there &amp; practical<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The park occupies the centre of Manhattan, with the Upper West Side along one flank and the Upper East Side along the other, Midtown at its foot and Harlem at its head. Transit access is exceptionally easy: the A, B, C and D lines converge at Columbus Circle at the southwest corner; the B and C run the entire western edge, including a stop at the American Museum of Natural History; the N, R and W serve the southeast corner; the 4, 5 and 6 shadow the eastern boundary; and the 2 and 3 reach the northern end in Harlem. Entry is free and unticketed at every one of the park&#8217;s gates, and the park is open daily from early morning until one in the morning. The zoo, the carousel, Wollman Rink and boat rentals are separately operated and ticketed; everything else \u2014 the lawns, the woods, the terraces, the gardens \u2014 costs nothing. Allow two hours for a highlights walk, half a day to see the southern park properly, and a full day if you intend to reach the Conservatory Garden and Harlem Meer on foot. Restrooms and drinking fountains are distributed throughout, and five visitor centres, including Belvedere Castle and the Dana Discovery Center, hand out maps.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"When_to_visit\"><\/span>When to visit<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Spring is the park at its most crowded and most rewarding: cherries and crabapples flower along the reservoir and in the Conservatory Garden through April, and the first two weeks of May bring the warbler migration through the Ramble. Summer means long evenings on the Great Lawn and Sheep Meadow, free Shakespeare and concerts, rowboats on the Lake and a canopy dense enough to drop the temperature noticeably below the surrounding streets. Autumn is the connoisseur&#8217;s season \u2014 the last week of October and the first of November turn the Mall&#8217;s elms gold and the North Woods red, and the light is at its best for photography. Winter strips the design bare, which is when Olmsted&#8217;s bones show most clearly: skating at Wollman Rink, ice on the Lake, and after heavy snow, sledding on Cedar Hill and Pilgrim Hill and a park that empties into something close to silence.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Good_to_know\"><\/span>Good to know<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The idea of a great public park for New York took legislative shape with the Central Park Act of July 1853, which authorised the city to take 778 acres of upper Manhattan \u2014 land later expanded to 843 acres \u2014 at a cost of about $7.39 million. The site was not empty. Roughly 1,600 people were living on it, and the largest and most established of their settlements was Seneca Village, founded in 1825 when Andrew Williams, a 25-year-old African American bootblack, bought three lots from landowner John Whitehead for $125; on the same day, AME Zion Church trustee Epiphany Davis bought twelve. By the mid-1850s the village held roughly 225 residents, three churches \u2014 AME Zion, the African Union Church and the racially mixed All Angels&#8217; \u2014 two schools including Colored School No. 3, and three burial grounds. Its significance was political as much as social: New York State required Black men to hold $250 in property and three years&#8217; residency to vote, and of roughly 13,000 Black New Yorkers in 1845 only about 100 qualified statewide, ten of whom lived in Seneca Village. More than half the village&#8217;s residents owned property in 1850, about five times the rate for New York City as a whole. By 1855 roughly a third of the population was Irish, families who had arrived during the Great Famine. Between 1855 and 1857 the entire community was removed under eminent domain. Compensation averaged around $700 and went only to the roughly one in five residents who held title \u2014 Andrew Williams was awarded $2,335 for his house and lots after asking $3,500 \u2014 while the remaining four-fifths, tenants and boarders, received nothing at all. The village was demolished in 1857 and effectively erased from the park&#8217;s own story for more than a century. Archaeologists excavated the site in 2011, uncovering the foundation walls and cellar of the home of William Godfrey Wilson, sexton of All Angels&#8217; Church, and more than 250 bags of artefacts including a bone toothbrush handle and the leather sole of a child&#8217;s shoe. A plaque went up in 2001, and the Central Park Conservancy installed interpretive markers across the former village ground in 2019. Construction of the park itself took nearly two decades and an enormous workforce, moving more earth and firing more gunpowder than had been used at Gettysburg to break the schist ridges. By the 1970s the park had fallen into severe neglect \u2014 eroded lawns, graffitied structures, silted water bodies \u2014 and its recovery dates to the founding of the Central Park Conservancy in 1980, a private non-profit that has managed the park under contract with the city since 1998 and raised the bulk of its restoration funding. Car traffic, permitted on the drives for more than a century, was banned entirely in June 2018.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Visitor_tips\"><\/span>Visitor tips<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Enter from a corner rather than the middle: the southern entrances at Columbus Circle and Grand Army Plaza put you straight onto the classic route, while the northern gates give you the Conservatory Garden and Harlem Meer with a fraction of the crowd.<\/li>\n<li>Download a map or photograph one at a visitor centre before you set off \u2014 the Ramble in particular was designed to make you lose your bearings, and phone signal under the tree canopy is unreliable.<\/li>\n<li>Weekday mornings before ten are transformative: Bethesda Terrace, Bow Bridge and the Mall are effectively empty, and the low light on the terrace arcade is the best of the day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Questions_answers\"><\/span>Questions &amp; answers<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Is there an entrance fee for Central Park?<\/strong> No. The park itself has always been free and has no gates or tickets. Individual attractions inside it \u2014 the zoo, the carousel, Wollman Rink, rowboat and gondola hire, and some ticketed events \u2014 are run separately and charge their own admission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened to Seneca Village?<\/strong> It was a settlement of predominantly free Black landowners established in 1825, with churches, schools and cemeteries, and roughly 225 residents by the mid-1850s. The city took the land by eminent domain under the Central Park Act of 1853, evicted the residents between 1855 and 1857, and demolished the village in 1857. Only about a fifth of residents owned their land and received compensation; the rest received none. It is not a footnote to the park&#8217;s creation \u2014 it is part of it, and the Conservancy now marks the ground where the village stood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much time do I need?<\/strong> Two hours gets you the southern highlights on foot \u2014 the Mall, Bethesda Terrace, Bow Bridge, the Ramble. Half a day lets you add the Great Lawn, Belvedere Castle and the reservoir. A full day is needed to walk the length of the park to the Conservatory Garden and Harlem Meer without rushing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are cars allowed inside the park?<\/strong> No. Vehicles were excluded from the last of the park drives in June 2018, and the 6.1 miles of loop road are now shared by pedestrians, runners, cyclists and pedicabs only. Four sunken transverse roads still carry crosstown traffic across the park, but they are below grade and largely invisible from the paths.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When is the best time for autumn colour?<\/strong> Peak foliage in Manhattan usually falls in the last week of October and the first week of November, later than upstate New York. The Mall&#8217;s elms, the Ramble and the North Woods hold colour longest; the reservoir&#8217;s perimeter gives the widest view of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where is the best birdwatching?<\/strong> The Ramble is the classic site, with the North Woods, the Loch and the Pool close behind. Central Park lies on the Atlantic Flyway, and more than 270 species have been recorded in the Ramble alone in a single year. Late April to mid-May and again in September bring the heaviest migration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you swim or fish in the lakes?<\/strong> Swimming is not permitted anywhere in the park&#8217;s water bodies. Catch-and-release fishing is allowed seasonally at Harlem Meer, where the Dana Discovery Center lends rods, and the reservoir is strictly off limits to any water contact.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who looks after the park today?<\/strong> It is owned by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation but managed under contract by the Central Park Conservancy, a private non-profit founded in 1980 in response to the park&#8217;s collapse into neglect. The Conservancy raises most of the operating budget and has driven the restoration of Bethesda Terrace, the Ramble, the Great Lawn, the Hallett Nature Sanctuary and much else.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"entity-gallery\" class=\"padrino-entity-gallery\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photos\"><\/span>Photos<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.manhattanname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2026\/08\/central-park-manhattan-1.jpg\" alt=\"Central Park\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.manhattanname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2026\/08\/central-park-manhattan-2.jpg\" alt=\"Central Park\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.manhattanname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2026\/08\/central-park-manhattan-3.jpg\" alt=\"Central Park\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.manhattanname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2026\/08\/central-park-manhattan-4.jpg\" alt=\"Central Park\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.manhattanname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2026\/08\/central-park-manhattan-5.jpg\" alt=\"Central Park\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.manhattanname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2026\/08\/central-park-manhattan-6.png\" alt=\"Central Park\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<details>\n<summary>Show 1 more photos<\/summary>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.manhattanname.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2026\/08\/central-park-manhattan-7.jpg\" alt=\"Central Park\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/details>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p><small>Data is refreshed monthly. Sources: manhattanname.com and editorial picks based on reviews.<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2190 TOP 10 venues in Manhattan \u2014 best parks 2026 Park \u00b7 Manhattan \u00b7 \u2b50 9.7\/10 \u00b7 300482 reviews \u00b7 updated: 2026-08-04 20:06:31 Address: New York, United States Call Get directions Central Park \u2014 843 acres of engineered wilderness in the middle of Manhattan Nothing here is accidental. 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