Central Park is a relief from the streets of Manhattan, but the sweeping green oasis is hardly "natural." Every tree and hill was put in place by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux 150 years ago, when a swath of swampy and rocky land inhabited by poor Irish and black people was cleared to make way for a "people's park."
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Richard J. Berenson author, Central Park: Barnes & Noble Complete Illustrated Map and Guidebook (Silver Lining Books, 2003), and also The Complete Illustrated Guidebook to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Sliver Lining, 2001)and Betsy Blackmar Professor of History at Columbia University and co-author, The Park and the People: ...
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