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Central Park
Have you ever been to Central Park? The last day of our trip to the Grand Pomme was mostly spent exploring this crazy green expanse. Wikipedia informs me that it has a real estate value of $528bn but I think it is truly priceless. Without this oasis of calm in its centre, the entirety of Manhattan Island would be a busy, noisy, bustling madhouse. The respite from the madness that one attains by lazing under the park's canopy is only matched by that of overlooking the rectangular green expanse from atop one of the many surrounding skyscrapers supping on a champagne cocktail, or an Absinthe Minded Refresher in one of Rande Gerber's luxurious establishments.
Our "day in the park" entailed many a walked mile, we approached from the south, up Fifth Avenue, continuing up to the zoo. Mrs P and I have been to many zoos in our time, often finding them to be cruel, barren places. This little gem was quite different! It was small and simple yet all the animals seemed to be thoroughly enjoying themselves, although the lazy polar bears did their best to betray this belief:
Plenty more wonders and delights to share...
2 comments:
Yes, I went to Central Park 30 years ago - must have changed a bit as we saw a mugging and the zoo looked flea-bitten with litter blowing around in it.
Good to know that things do get better !
Thankfully we saw no muggings. Still a lot of stressed and angry people but Rudy Giuliani's hard stance on crime has apparently improved the city no end. Perhaps Boris could do the same for our wonderful capital city.
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