Today we're going on a little tour, wherever you're at, whether you're thousands of miles

away from New York or just stuck in your Madison Avenue office, you're all invited to

walk with me today through the oldest portion of Central Park, not to marvel at the beautiful

trees, ancient rocks or flowers, with a dizzying array of birds, but to look at the architecture,

sculptures and the fountains. And along this journey, I'll meet up with two incredible

guest stars today, Sarah Cedar Miller from the Central Park Conservancy, and Vox is famous

for a quote that is, nature first, second and third, architecture after a while.

And Dr. Emma Guest Consolis of the Guide to Association of New York City.

When I think of the park, I often think of it in three, so there are three kinds of landscape,

three kinds of ways of moving around the park, monumental, rustic and pastoral landscapes.

So follow along in your mind, pull up a map, or if you're so lucky, just head on over

to the park and follow along on foot. This is a story of castles, tiled arcades, cast

iron masterpieces, and even the world's most famous writer, immortalized in bronze.

The Bowery Boys episode 415, the early years of Central Park.

Hi there, welcome to the Bowery Boys. This is Greg Young. And with Tom away from the

show, you and I will be headed up to Central Park, the 840 acre rectangular park in the

heart of Manhattan. But we're not visiting all of the park today, but rather a section

between 72nd and 80th streets, centered around a picturesque body of water known simply

as the lake. Surrounding the lake are some of the park's most treasured destinations,

and I would safely say it might be the most romantic place in all of New York City. Some

of you were probably even married here.

Now last year I released a special show, episode 385, about the early life of Frederick

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