The gates into central park along its western edge are.
Stranger s gate in new york s central park.
Its official title the gates central park new york 1979 2005 hints at the length and intensity of the campaign new york authorities and residents waged against the project.
These named gates honor groups of new yorkers such as scholars artisans merchants and artists all the variety of hard working people who make new york a world class city.
New york city department of parks recreation is the steward of 5 000 of new york city s parks and park properties that s 14 percent of the city.
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Merchants gate at 59th street women s gate at 72nd naturalists gate at 77th hunters gate at 81st mariners gate at 85th gate of all saints at 96th boys gate at 100th and strangers gate at 106th.
Did you know that central park s southeast entrance at 59th street is dedicated to scholars.
At the strangers gate is a vivid portrait of this time told through the story of one couple s journey from their excited arrival as aspiring artists to their eventual growth into a new york family.
Through a series of comic mini anthropologies that capture the fashion publishing and art worlds of the era adam gopnik transports us from his tiny basement room on the upper east side to a soho loft from his time as a graduate student cum library clerk to the galleries of moma.
Or that the area by prospect park s new lakeside complex was once a parking lot for horse drawn.
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