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Environment and People The History of Central Park ------a brief introduction The park was not part of the Commissioners Plan of 1811; however New York City nearly quadrupled in population. As the city expanded, people were drawn to the few open spaces, mainly cemeteries, to get away from the noise and chaotic life in the city. A stylish place for open-air driving, like the Bois de Boulogne in Paris or Londons Hyde Park, was felt to be needed by many influential New Yorkers, and in 1853 the New York legislature designated a 700 acre area from 59th to 106th Streets for the creation of the park, to a cost of more than US$5 million for the land alone. The park is the largest on Manhattan Island. New Yorks Central Park is the first urban landscaped park in the United States. Originally conceived in the salons of wealthy New Yorkers in the early 1850s, the park project spanned more than a decade and cost the city ten million dollars. The purpose was to refute the European view that Americans lacked a sense of civic duty and appreciation for cultural refinement and instead possessed an unhealthy and individualistic materialism that precluded interest in the common good. Central Park is a large public, urban park in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, just over 1/3 of the size of Londons Richmond Park, but just 1/5 of Los Angeless Griffith Park. With about twenty-five million visitors annually, Central Park is the most visited city park in the United States, and its appearance in many movies and television shows has made it famous. The park is maintained by the Central Park Conservancy, a private, not-for-profit organization that manages the park under a contract with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation in which the president of the Conservancy is ex official Administrator of Central Park. Central Park is bordered on the north by West 110th Street, on the south by West 59th Street, on t