There is no shortage of photography from New York City’s Central Park. It’s one of those places that has become its own myth, its own character in a city that is chock full of characters and ...

Entrance to Central Park Zoo, 1942. Image via the Library of Congress Today The New York Times has not only the origin of the Central Park Zoo but also a document which reveals the “curious list ...

New York City Parks Photo Archive For 70 years, the sheep stayed at Sheep Meadow. In 1934, Central Park commissioner Robert Moses moved them to Prospect Park in Brooklyn.

It is difficult to imagine a desolate Central Park West without neighboring skyscrapers, bustling taxi cabs, and lots of New Yorkers, but back in the 1890s, it was just that. In fact, the Dakota ...

Buying the park's 843 acres cost New York State legislature about 7.4 million dollars, total, says Kamil. By comparison, the United States bought Alaska—more than 600 thousand square miles ...

Fass, 56, has been stationed at the Mall in Central Park for a decade, but has recently garnered online acclaim thanks to Gen Z fans who rave about the $20 photo-op on TikTok.

Reporting from New York — Central Park is almost synonymous with New York. But historians have long wondered whether the city’s signature park was originally conceived the way it looks today ...