Happy 150th Birthday, Central Park!
I tried to get an early morning snapshot of Manhattan's best-known park this morning from the Empire State Building Towercam, but it wasn't working overnight and was very busy this morning. The one image I could get of Central Park looked fairly hazy anyway. So let's look at some other live views of Central Park. There's the WABC-TV Central Park cam. And the live penguin cam, featuring the penguins in the Central Park Zoo. The New York City Department of Transportation live cam network includes two Central Park views, Central Park South at Columbus Circle, and Central Park West at 96th Street. If those individual links don't work, use the one for the New York City DOT and choose from the links there.
And while I was collecting those links, the Towercam started working again, so I took this candid birthday shot.
There'll be celebrations going on throughout the park all day. They even turned on the fountain in the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir for the third time since 1917 (of course, it didn't have that name back in 1917).
And if you're more inclined to take a boat ride than a walk in the park, you might check out the Circle Line Cam, which gives you a live view from the Circle Line boat that goes around the island of Manhattan.
Or if you don't mind non-live images, take a look at some of the 3,860 images that turn up on a Google image search for "Central Park" "New York".
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @8:27 AM
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