The other day I went for a walk to Central Park. The park, as New Yorkers call it, is the heart and the lung of the city. The person who had the great idea of saving that part of the city of building speculation and create a park would have to be worshipped in every corner of the city.
This park, 4km long by 500m wide, is the favorite relaxing place for New Yorkers, with two ice rinks, several lakes, separate tracks for pedestrians, bicycles and horses, even a wildlife reserve. It's a favorite resting place of migrating birds, which find an oasis in the middle of so much concrete. Birdwatchers love that time of the year.
Besides all that, it contains the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and across the street there is the Museum of Natural History. The most expensive buildings of the city face Central Park, obviously, because you don't have another building in front of you, and this green extension opens before you.
The famous Reservoir, in the middle of the park, has a running track around it, a favorite of New York City joggers.
I promise I will take more pictures of it as soon as the first snow falls and I can get Central Park covered in white.
