Parks in New York

New York's parks are essential to life park city, are the oasis where New Yorkers take shelter for dining, relaxing or just a change.
The legendary and enormous Central Park has been the scene of movies and series. All tourists must spend at younger half day exploring the lush and shaded park trails.

The second largest park in New York, Battery Park is located in the heart of Manhattan where you can enjoy a quiet pause in our day New York. Furthermore Battery Park is the best viewpoint of the Statue of Liberty.

• Bryant Park.
  Avenue of the Americas & 42th St.
• Central Park.
  Central Park.
• Gramercy Park District.
  Gramercy Park.
• The Highline.
  Hits: Gansevoort Street, 14th Street (elevator access), 16th Street (elevator access), 18th Street and 20th Street.

Central Park

Of course New York is a quaint town on the same day can be in a modern skyscraper touching the clouds, or surrounded by noisy Broadway a varied ethnic selection, or in Central Park barefoot on grass listening to a sneak musician sing a country tune.

And in New York is much New York. Have you ever heard that saying America the land of opportunity, because I think that that created it in this city, because here is strictly enforced.
While this might sound poetry, this has been my reality during this visit to the Big Apple.

"Diversity" is not a word you normally use to refer to a city, but in New York as the sing song. I wonder what the origin of this word, perhaps as a tourist overwhelmed, to say I have no word to define this city, and decided to create "diversity" to exit the linguistic predicament.

My first stop the Empire State Building, from the heights thought better understand this anthill. I do a 20 min queue. step two metal detectors and rented an audio guide; because for the first time in my life I thought tourist needed professional help. The audioguide welcomed me to the Empire State Building Hispanic woman living in the city who told me in relation to Central Park:

"In Central Park the dream of Simon Bolivar, the liberator of five American national, here is America holds it all together"

And I thought is funny as can be summarized as important to a small piece of greenery sleep; but then I stopped to think and it's true. That developer, Latin America have united under one banner of liberty, in the city of New York, only instead of being the Gran Colombia is the Big Apple.

So inspired by this great discovery I went to Central Park, to be part of that great human amalgam.

This park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1858, in an unpromising land; a mass of quarries, pig farms, sloughs and immigrant slums. Ten million cartloads of stone and earth were necessary to give you the "natural" appearance it has today.
It measures 340 hectares and is a set of hills, lakes, meadows, flower gardens and greenhouses where there planted more than 500,000 trees and shrubs. The park has 30 bridges along the 93 Km. Pedestrian paths that cross. It has playgrounds, ice rink, tennis courts, baseball and soccer fields; finally a space for what you want to do.

List the things to do in Central Park in New York, would require hours and a lot of memory, but try to think of the most ingenious:

Browse Venetian gondola accompanied by the largest lake of the lyrical songs of the driver.

Marry and celebrate the feast in the House Boat on the lake, in the most exclusive extravaganza you can imagine.

Walking, cycling, horseback riding, exercise in the shade of trees representing thousands of vegetation on five continents.

Bring your children to see wild animals or to feed the sheep.
Listen to preachers, catantes, musicians and theater.

Attend as audience Daily Show NBC that records every morning in the park.

Eat all kinds of dishes from around the world.

Finally the classic, but one of my favorites, horse carriage ride with your soul mate and receive the most romantic kisses.

If you do not have too long, the walk between streets 59 and 79 covers most of the most attractive spots of Central Park from the leafy Rambla to the open spaces of Bethesda Terrace. For those with more time in the city, here I display the most important thing to see in the park.

Perhaps the safest thing is to start at the Information Center Central Park, located in a beautiful stone building called: The Dairy. Originally this building was designed as a children's center in the park, here the kids could play with farm animals, drink milk, play and get on a carousel; but with the changing times and after a thorough restoration has become the focus of the public park. Here you can get a park map and a schedule of park activities.

We continue to the Strawberry Fields (strawberry fields) an area of ​​the park that pays tribute to John Lennon. Yoko Ono did restore this area of ​​the park, which now has a teardrop shape, as was her husband's favorite view from the balcony of his house a few meters from here. The Strawberry Field was built with donations from all over the world; It is home to 161 species of plants and mosaic "imagine" a tribute to Lennon and peace.

Our next stop the Belvedere Castle, a castle stone tower and everything from where you can enjoy one of the best views of Central Park. Inside the castle is located Learning Center, where visitors shown about the wildlife of the park.

If you look north from makes Belvedere Castle, can be seen the Delacorte Theater, where every summer is free Shakespeare outdoors with famous actors. From the theater the next stop is the Bow Bridge, one of the seven bridges wrought iron park. Cross the bridge and walk some distance to the Bethesda Fountain and Terrace.

Located between the side and the dock, the Bethesda Terrace and Power, is the architectural heart of the park, the most solemn naturalistic element in the surrounding landscape. The source was opened in 1873 and the statue of the Angel of Water in 1842, with the opening of the Croton Aqueduct that channel the first brought water to the city of New York. The beautiful terrace gives a touch of elegance to this corner of Central Park, one of the best places to relax and watch the world go by.

At the west end of the park is the Conservatory Water, where we recommend you make a stop to eat a bagel while watching the boat races on the remote pool. Better known as the Pool of the boats in this stretch of water at the weekend celebrated racing yachts. At the north end, a sculpture of Alice in Wonderland gets all the attention of children, while not as children prefer reading a story on the lap of the statue of Hans Christian Andersen.

Vanderbilt Gate at Fifth Avenue, marks the entrance to enter three elegant gardens with hundreds of trees and flowering shrubs. The Central Garden has a large lawn with hedges topped by a pergola flanquead by apple. In the south garden has a beautiful flower garden and statue of the characters in the Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson. In the north garden flowered during the summer always presents the three graces singing in a pond.

Finally but not least, the Central Zoo Park, called Central Park Wildlife Center. It reopened in 1988, is a challenge to the management of space, features more than 130 animal species in three climatic zones: tropical, arctic and coastal California.