#55 The Evolution of Central Park

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2008

⏱️ 34 minutes

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When last we left Central Park, it was the embodiment of Olmstead and Vaux's naturalistic Greensward Plan. So how did all those playgrounds, a swanky nightclub, a theater troupe and all those hippies get here? www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	Episode 55 of the Bowry Boys, Central Park, the Evolution.
0:05.3	Hey, it's the Bowry Boys!
0:06.9	Hey!
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0:22.1	Hello, and welcome to the Bowry Boys, I'm Tom Myers.
0:25.4	And I'm Greg Young, thanks again for tuning in,
0:28.2	because we're now at our part two of our Central Park episode.
0:32.7	We had to wait a week for this one.
0:34.4	Yeah, we gave birth to Central Park in the last one.
0:38.0	We talked about Central Park when it was, you know,
0:40.4	but a gleam in the eye of the big apple.
0:43.5	But now we're going to talk about how it's grown up
0:46.4	to that wild and rambunctious place that it is today.
0:49.6	Brilliant metaphor.
0:50.8	Last week we really focused on the original idea of Central Park
0:54.9	and how it got hatched in the first place,
0:57.4	up until the late 1800s.
0:59.6	Until around 1870s, when we stopped,
1:02.6	this time we're going to see how the original ideas of the two original architects,
1:08.6	Voxen Olmsted, how things really changed over the years,
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