Random Access 3.0: Well, I can Say I’ve been to Central Park now.
I’ve been to Central Park too. The last time I was in NYC a group of us decided to have dinner over at the boat basin cafe. After dinner three of us decided to just walk cross-town through the park since they lived uptown and I was staying at the Metropolitan hotel at 51st and Lexington.
The impressive thing about Central Park isn’t that it’s a big ass park in a big ass city. It’s that the park is entirely MAN MADE. The rivers and waterfalls have shut off valves. Before they landscaped the park that area was all rock, scrub brush, and swampland.
Given how old the park, and the city in general is, it has a lot of history. (dErF!). It was interesting to walk past people waiting in line to see Shakespeare in the park and realize that was the location of the original Shakespeare in the park.
Living somewhere that isn’t NYC, like Seattle, it’s hard to realize that Central Park may be the only place some people EVER see more than 10 sq feet of grass. Except for all of the people, which seem to be EVERYWHERE in NYC, it’s easy to forget you’re in the middle of a big ass city when you’re there.