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Central Park is a park in Manhattan, New York City. It covers 843 acres (341 hectares) bounded by 110th Street to the north, Fifth Avenue to the east, Central Park South (59th Street) to the south, and Central Park West (Eighth Avenue) to the west.[1]
The park was established by act of the New York state legislature in 1853 and opened to the public in 1859. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the English romantic style of landscape design[2].
Central Park is visited by 25 million people each year[3].