Central Park Panoramic
Central Park is one of the very iconic parts of New York City. My earliest memories of the park is when I lived on W93rd Street Back from 55-63 before there was gentrification and actual middle and working class people could still afford to live in Manhattan and my mother would take us to the nearby playgrounds. In my adolescence and early adulthood it was a very cool place to hang and also a nice place to take a girl on a low budget when the weather was nice. Over the years I would go here to see concerts at the Wollman Skating Rink for several years where the concerts were general admission and the tickets were cheap even when adjusted for inflation and I saw many well known bands there. I also made money around the concerts selling beer we bought wholesale from beer a distributor selling them at around a 300-400% markup but there was a lot labor involved hauling in a large cooler and shopping carts full of ice. The park was also endpoint for many political marches during the Vietnam War and the occasional large free concert such as Jefferson Airplane and Simon and Garfunkel. The free concerts ended when Diana Ross gave a free concert when the concert suddenly ended when fierce summer thunderstorms passed through when groups of mostly youths attending the concert formed flash mobs that assaulted and robbed people. After that the city banned large free concerts in the park and the incident became a point of racial animosity for years to come. During the eighties me and my wife spent many a pleasant day or evening walking the paths. During the nineties when my children were small we would take our kids every year to visit many of the museums that border the park and afterwards they would love to play in many of the custom made playgrounds built by generous wealthy donors.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJrUigEoSZ0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JUbFj0BIc4
www.nytimes.com/1983/07/24/nyregion/youth-gags-rob-fans-a...
Central Park Panoramic
Central Park is one of the very iconic parts of New York City. My earliest memories of the park is when I lived on W93rd Street Back from 55-63 before there was gentrification and actual middle and working class people could still afford to live in Manhattan and my mother would take us to the nearby playgrounds. In my adolescence and early adulthood it was a very cool place to hang and also a nice place to take a girl on a low budget when the weather was nice. Over the years I would go here to see concerts at the Wollman Skating Rink for several years where the concerts were general admission and the tickets were cheap even when adjusted for inflation and I saw many well known bands there. I also made money around the concerts selling beer we bought wholesale from beer a distributor selling them at around a 300-400% markup but there was a lot labor involved hauling in a large cooler and shopping carts full of ice. The park was also endpoint for many political marches during the Vietnam War and the occasional large free concert such as Jefferson Airplane and Simon and Garfunkel. The free concerts ended when Diana Ross gave a free concert when the concert suddenly ended when fierce summer thunderstorms passed through when groups of mostly youths attending the concert formed flash mobs that assaulted and robbed people. After that the city banned large free concerts in the park and the incident became a point of racial animosity for years to come. During the eighties me and my wife spent many a pleasant day or evening walking the paths. During the nineties when my children were small we would take our kids every year to visit many of the museums that border the park and afterwards they would love to play in many of the custom made playgrounds built by generous wealthy donors.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJrUigEoSZ0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JUbFj0BIc4
www.nytimes.com/1983/07/24/nyregion/youth-gags-rob-fans-a...