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Parks & gardens · Manhattan

Central Park

Central Park is an 840-acre flagship park in New York, held and maintained by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

Central Park, a park in New York
Central Park, photographed as a park and confirmed by inspection to show this place rather than its surroundings. Ed Yourdon from New York City, USA · CC-BY-SA-2.0

Good for

  • Outdoor day — Open ground that can be walked without a ticket or a plan. It is in this corpus as one of the fifteen properties the city parks department classes as a flagship park (840 acres).

These are editorial judgements, not verified facts.

Sources & verification

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Parks Properties (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Point published against this record by New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
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Parks Properties (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
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Parks Properties (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
The register's own title for this record is "Central Park"; the displayed name is that title cleaned of listing scope and case, not a rename.
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Parks Properties (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
The identifier New York City Department of Parks and Recreation gives this record in Parks Properties. Read from the response, never transcribed.
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Parks Properties (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Assigned from the register's own classification of this record as "Flagship Park".
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Parks Properties (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
The register gives no tabulation area for this record.

Not verified: opening hours, admission prices and access rules. These change frequently and we have not checked them, so this page does not state them. Check the official website before travelling.

Created from record M010 of Parks Properties, retrieved 2026-09-08.

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