YOUR MONTHLY MILE | March There are endless paths to travel in , and even lifelong New Yorkers can discover something new in its 843 acres. Check out this month’s featured landmarks to learn more about their history and about the ’s mission to restore, manage, and enhance Central Park.

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1 2 Delacorte Clock The Wildlife Conservation Society Before you exit the Zoo, stop at the 5 keeps the Zoo open year-round, Delacorte Clock to hear the nursery and winter is a great time to visit. rhymes or seasonal tunes that The crowds die down, and many of play every half hour. Donated by the animals are more active in the philanthropist George Delacorte, 2 cooler weather. Catch a glimpse the clock was dedicated in 1965 3 of the sea lions as you pass and features a band of whimsical E 65 through, or step inside to meet all animals — a penguin banging a of the Zoo’s residents, including drum, a hippo on violin, a bear penguins, seals, and snow and his tambourine, a concertina- leopards. Families with children playing elephant, a goat with pipes, can continue north to the Tisch and a kangaroo blowing his horn Children’s Zoo, home to potbellied — that circle the tower as the music pigs, sheep, and the only cow plays. The Conservancy works to 1 in . make sure the outdoor clock spreads musical cheer all year-round.

3 4 Rumsey Playfield 5 The Mall 6 Bethesda Terrace In honor of this month’s Iditarod Now synonymous with the popular When and The Mall culminates at Bethesda Great Sled Race, we pay a visit to cultural series, SummerStage, designed Central Terrace, which is considered the statue of Balto, a who Rumsey Playfield has always been Park, they envisioned a formal the heart of Central Park. On helped deliver diphtheria medicine an area for entertainment. Over promenade as one of the Park’s the Terrace’s piers, ramps, and to the residents of Nome, Alaska the last century, this space has most important features. The only balustrades, you’ll notice elaborate after an outbreak in 1925. Only housed the Ladies’ Refreshment straight line in the Park, the Mall is carvings that represent time and 10 months later, a monument to Saloon, a respectable place where lined with rows of American elm the four seasons. Down the steps Balto and his team was erected women could dine in public without trees, displaying one of the largest is the arcade, an atmospheric in Central Park, and it has since a male escort; the Casino, the Park’s and last remaining stands of space underneath the Terrace, become one of the Park’s most first formal restaurant for coed American elms in North America. which was originally conceived popular statues. Balto himself, dining and an Art Deco night club; The trees create a canopy above as an open-air reception hall. Its along with his musher, Gunnar a playground; and SummerStage, the pedestrian walkway. This highlight is the magnificent Minton Kassen, were present at the which continues today. In 2016, design was intended to rival the tile ceiling, which the Conservancy dedication ceremony, making the Conservancy restored the famous gothic cathedrals of restored in the 1980s. Finally, walk this the only statue in Central Park landscape around Rumsey Playfield, Europe and evoke feelings akin out to the main plaza and take in the to have had the honoree present rebuilding paths and expanding the to a religious experience for those bronze statue, Angel of the Waters, at the unveiling. irrigation infrastructure. walking down the path. a symbol of purity and healing.

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