Central Park

Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and opened in stages beginning in 1858, Central Park occupies 843 acres in the center of Manhattan Island between Fifth Avenue and Central Park West. The park contains the Ramble woodland, the Bethesda Terrace and Fountain, the Reservoir, and the Great Lawn, offering a calibrated sequence of pastoral and formal landscapes enclosed by the midtown and upper West Side skylines. The Bow Bridge at dawn, with the San Remo towers reflected in the still water of the Lake, is among the most reproduced photography compositions in New York.