On Valentine’s Day approximately 40 anti horse-drawn carriage demonstrators gathered near Grand Army Plaza to voice their opposition to the industry. According to the industry spokeswoman Carolyn Daly the animal rights activists are just a “fringe group”. “The horses are in excellent condition,” she is quoted in the New York Times. “We’ve never had a cruelty violation. We have an impeccable safety record and it’s a popular, popular tourist attraction.” This dismissive attitude Ms. Daly is extremely troubling. If there is an impeccable record why were there ridiculous inconsistencies found during an oversight audit last September? It is one thing to have a difference of opinion – it is yet another to just be completely obtuse.
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TripAdvisor recently announced the top 10 places in America to propose, according to travelers and editors, and according to them the single best place in the country to pop the question is New York’s very own Central Park. According to one TripAdvisor traveler, “I got proposed to right next to the lake in Central Park, near the fountain! It was perfect and I have such happy memories of that days.” Awwww. Well besides actually proposing, which is certainly an extreme measure, the celebration of Valentine’s Day offers a great opportunity to take advantage of some of the park’s most romantic locations. Yes, I know, it’s winter, but what could be more romantic than a spin around Wollman Rink? Remember the movie Serendipity? (It was perhaps the most memorable scene in the movie.) So, to commemorate Central Park’s wonderfully romantic nature we’re taking a poll of your favorite romantic spots around the park. Let us know what you think. |
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Central Park, at the very heart (if not the very heart) of New York City, is one of the most inspiring combinations of architecture, landscape design and urban planning to be found anywhere on the face of the earth. It ranks as a symbol of New York City only behind the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building. Unlike these two, however, Central Park is dynamic, vibrant; a perpetually changing counterpoint to the brilliant, but static, architectural achievements that surround it.
Central Park breathes. It provides a respite from the struggles that have produced the amazing city that surrounds it. It is a place to reflect, to sigh deeply and feel good about it, to let the tension ebb and allow the strictures and pressures of metropolitan enterprise loosen and unwind.
The park also satisfies that need that resides in so many city dwellers, in an environment that requires dusting plants as often as watering them, that causes us to lavish our attentions upon wallet-sized window boxes and fret over ficus plants that have seen more near death drama than a revival of “Camille”. A need to be near something living, something growing; a need to be near something green that isn’t attached to our cheese.
Central Park is all of these things, and much more.
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