NEW YORK, NEW YORK!!!! PART XIII (CENTRAL PARK)

The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir

Our last stop in New York is, Central Park. I always see this park in movies and it looks like soo fresh, cozy, joyful, i mean it seems really happy place to me. People r walking their dogs, chating w/ their friends, playing flying disc, jogging, meeting their friends, doing yoga and bunch of things like that... i really envy this.. It'S really cool place cause it's not out of city, it's literally center of this city.

And i think, people living in there r really lucky.. Imagine that, ur in the heart of the city , and the heart is nature. And u can find so many attractions over there. I'm a nature enthuast cause of that i just fell in love w/ this place..

 To discover the Central Park, i joined the guided sightseeing bike tour (w/ my NY Pass).

Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan, New York City. Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States, with 40 million visitors in 2013, and one of the most filmed locations in the world.

It took 15 years to built the Central Park.
Central Park was designated a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior in 1962. The Park, managed for decades by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, is currently managed by the Central Park Conservancy under contract with the municipal government in a public-private partnership. The Conservancy is a non-profit organization that contributes 75 percent of Central Park's $65 million annual budget and is responsible for all basic care of the 843-acre park.

<------here's you see Bethesda Terrace.
 Bethesda Terrace is on two levels, united by two grand staircases and a lesser one that passes under Terrace Drive to provide passage southward to the Elkan Naumburg bandshell and The Mall, of which this is the architectural culmination, the theatrical set-piece at the center of the park.

And here it is Bethesda Fountain------>
Also called the Angel of the Waters Angel of the Waters, Central Park, New York City, NY , the statue refers to the Gospel of John, Chapter 5 where there is a description of an angel blessing the Pool of Bethesda, giving it healing powers. In Central Park the referent is the Croton Aqueduct opened in 1842, providing the city for the first time with a dependable supply of pure water: thus the angel carries a lily in one hand, representing purity, and with the other hand she blesses the water below.

<-----The Mall and Literary Walk
A total of 29 sculptures by sculptors such as Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Emma Stebbins, and John Quincy Adams Ward have been erected over the years, most donated by individuals or organizations. Much of the first statuary placed was of authors and poets, in an area now known as Literary Walk.

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The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir (sometimes abbreviated by locals as the JKO Reservoir) – originally called, and is known by locals as, the Central Park Reservoir – is a decommissioned reservoir in Central Park in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, stretching from 86th to 96th street.

<----The Central Park Memorial
(Strawberry Fields)
The memorial is a triangular piece of land falling away on the two sides of the park, and its focal point is a circular pathway mosaic of inlaid stones, with a single word, the title of Lennon's famous song: "Imagine". This was a gift from the city of Naples, Italy. Along the borders of the area surrounding the mosaic are benches which are endowed in memory of other individuals and maintained by the Central Park Conservancy. Along a path toward the southeast, a plaque on a low glaciated outcropping of schist lists the nations which contributed to building the memorial.

I saw bunch of things and i respect the beauty of nature even its been manmade.. It's so good place to people, to socialize maybe just to listen urself.. u can find anything u want.. just imagine, take a deep breath, feel the air of this beauty...

aaaaanD after this fresh-breathtaking-natural tour i had to go ready for Washington DC-Philadelphia!!!! see ya!!!