Central
Park
It
is a public park at the center of Manhattan in New York City. The
park initially opened in 1857, on 843 acres (3.41 km2)
of city_owned land. In 1858, Frederick
Law
Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and
expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward
Plan.
Construction began the same year, continued during the American Civil
War, and was completed in 1873.
Designated
a Nacional Historic Landmark in 1962, the park is currently managed
by the Central Park Conservancy under contract with the city
government. The Conservancy is a non-profit organization that
contributes 83.5% of Central Park's $37.5 million dollar annual
budget, and employs 80.7% of the park's maintenance staff.
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