How Central Park Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Central Park in Manhattan was America’s first landscaped public park, built at a time when New Yorkers’ only option for getting some fresh air was hanging around cemeteries. Get all the info about this beautiful icon and how it’s served as a landscape for class struggles over three centuries.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from HowStuffWorks.com.
0:41.4	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
0:43.0	I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry Rowland over there.
0:48.2	And this is Stuff You Should Know.
0:49.6	Was that a real stare down?
0:51.2	Yeah, Jerry won.
0:52.9	Jerry won because I was like around time for this thing longer.
0:56.2	That's pretty funny because that's just sort of all the three of us.
1:00.3	You guys are having a stare down over nothing.
1:02.5	You're just over there grumpy like Kumuguku.
1:04.5	I was just doing my thing and then all I heard from you was nice job, Jerry.
1:09.2	So like you conceded.
1:10.2	Well, Jerry, yeah, gave it to her.
1:11.7	I mean, Jerry won.
1:13.2	My friend, Billy, the one who passed away from MS that I talked about.
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