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Annual Report 2013 1 1 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Cover Contents Partnership Strategic Plan Craftsmanship Stewardship Friendship Financials Lists Support Info 2 CONTENTS 2 3 Partnership 4 Letter from the Chairman of the Board of Trustees and the Conservancy President 5 Letter from the Mayor and the Parks Commissioner 6 Tribute to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg 7 The Strategic Plan 10 Current Restoration Projects 10 The Woodlands Initiative 12 Grand Army Plaza 13 Reservoir Running Track 14 Central Play 16 Craftsmanship 17 Central Play 20 Rhododendron Mile East 21 Stewardship 22 Operations 22 Hurricane Sandy Cleanup 24 The New Waste Management System 25 Hallett Zone Gardener 26 Central Park Conservancy Institute for Urban Parks 26 Park-to-Park Training 27 Woodlands Discovery Program 29 Visitor Experience 29 Discovery Guides 30 Central Park Circuit 31 Harlem Meer Performance Festival 32 The Conservancy Volunteer Program 33 Friendship 37 Financials 52 Lists 109 Ways to Help the Park 111 Info 111 Conservancy Mission, Guiding Principle, and Core Values 112 Credits Fabian Vasquez, Tree Crew Cover: Bethesda Terrace and the Lake Cover Contents Partnership Strategic Plan Craftsmanship Stewardship Friendship Financials Lists Support Info 3 3 Partnership Cover Contents Partnership Strategic Plan Craftsmanship Stewardship Friendship Financials Lists Support Info PARTNERSHIP 4 Partnership: Central Park Conservancy This has been an extraordinary year for Central Park and its We also highlight this year’s innovative programs of the Central present and future visitors. The Conservancy was honored to Park Conservancy Institute for Urban Parks, which focus on accept the largest gift ever made to any public park, and one developing new educational experiences for our 40 million annual of the largest to be made to a New York City cultural institution. visitors. Through the Institute, the Conservancy is also committed The extraordinary gift of $100 million from the Paulson Family to both training and advising local, national, and international Foundation will literally touch every acre of our magnificent Park. urban parks. It ushers Central Park and the Conservancy into their latest We take great pride in the role we have played in leading phase: long-term sustainability, unprecedented maintenance Central Park’s re-emergence as the most important cultural and management, and a model for other parks and public institution and legendary open space in New York City. This is spaces worldwide. year’s great accomplishments insure an exciting future for The Conservancy’s new agreement with the City of New York was Central Park, the City, and the Conservancy. signed, and our partnership with the City is officially extended and expanded for the next decade. These important landmarks enable the Conservancy to end the perpetual cycle of decline and restoration that had devastated Central Park for most of the 19th and 20th centuries. Thanks to Thomas L. Kempner, Jr. Douglas Blonsky these critically important milestones, the Central Park Conservancy Chairman, Central Park Conservancy President & CEO, has just completed a significant and bold strategic plan that Central Park Conservancy will ensure our place as the leader in urban park management, and Central Park Administrator discussed in this report. This year the Conservancy launched its Central Play Initiative, a $40 million undertaking that will elevate all of the Park’s 21 playgrounds to the same standard of excellence. This report highlights the completion of our newest playground renovations: East 110th Street Playground and Tarr-Coyne Tots Playground at West 68th Street. Cover Contents Partnership Strategic Plan Craftsmanship Stewardship Friendship Financials Lists Support Info 5 PARTNERSHIP 5 Partnership: The City of New York On behalf of the City of New York, we are proud to join the By directing private funds toward both operating staff and capital Central Park Conservancy in presenting its annual report. projects, the Conservancy has become a model public-private partnership. We are grateful for every donation the Conservancy In 1980, civic and philanthropic leaders founded the Central Park receives from its hundreds of individual, corporation, and Conservancy to restore the Park to the splendor envisioned by its foundation supporters — and we are especially thankful for an 19th-century designers, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. unprecedented $100 million gift from John A. Paulson and the The results over the past 33 years have been tremendous. Central Paulson Family Foundation. Park now welcomes more than 40 million annual visitors, making it our City’s most popular cultural institution. As New York City becomes even greener and greater, we thank the Central Park Conservancy for its steadfast leadership. Together, The City’s partnership with the Central Park Conservancy has we can be confident that the Conservancy will enjoy many more been key to this success. This year, the City signed a new years of success in protecting and enhancing Central Park, management contract with the Conservancy, which ensures that sustained by the public it serves so well. Central Park will continue to benefit from a high level of service. Through the maintenance assistance which the contract calls for — and thanks to this year’s launch of the Central Park Conservancy Institute for Urban Parks, which will share best practices among partner groups — the Conservancy will collaborate with parks across the City as well. These initiatives are in addition to the Michael R. Bloomberg Veronica M. White extensive physical improvements that will be made to Central Park, Mayor, City of New York Commissioner all for a fraction of what such projects would cost the City on New York City Department of its own. Parks & Recreation Cover Contents Partnership Strategic Plan Craftsmanship Stewardship Friendship Financials Lists Support Info PARTNERSHIP 6 Leadership: Michael R. Bloomberg — Mayor of the City of New York, 2002 to 2013 Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg The Mayor’s PlaNYC, a program with well over 100 initiatives to will certainly leave a legacy enhance the quality of life for all New Yorkers, has changed our as the greatest environmental City dramatically since it was launched on Earth Day 2007. In that and park advocacy mayor that short time New York has achieved the cleanest air quality levels New York City has ever had. in 50 years, which also includes the no smoking ban in New York The Conservancy trustees, City parks, a tremendous boon for all park maintenance staff. donors, and staff are grateful The mayor championed a highly successful recycling program in for his tremendous support as parks and Citywide. The mayor’s bike-share program promotes a partner during key years of physical health and reduces the carbon footprint of every citizen Central Park’s development who cycles throughout the streets and parks of New York. Central and growth. His excellent Park is connected through the Parks’ bike lanes to other parks and appointments of First Deputy neighborhoods. The Conservancy is also grateful for the City’s Mayor Patricia Harris (2002–2013) and Parks Commissioners help, after several disastrous storms, with cleanup and recycling of Adrian Benepe (2002–2012) and Veronica White (2012–2013) tons of debris. gave the Conservancy the dedicated and supportive partners As a passionate promoter of public art, Mayor Bloomberg for all our work. The two contracts with the Conservancy during will always be remembered as the impresario of The Gates Mayor Bloomberg’s tenure, in 2006 and again in 2013, have in February, 2005 by Christo and the late Jeanne-Claude, ensured a strong commitment to our public-private partnership. which brought worldwide attention to their artwork and to the His administration has overseen the growth of parks and parkland, magnificence of Central Park, itself one of America’s greatest a result of recognizing the necessity for support in order to achieve works of art. a great urban park system. We celebrate the twelve years of Mayor Bloomberg’s outstanding Mayor Bloomberg understands the connection between successful leadership and welcome him into the pantheon of foremost park restoration and its subsequent maintenance and management visionaries and leaders of Central Park. in order to break the endless cycles of decline and restore that plagued Central Park for over a century. The recent contracts between the City and the Conservancy are a commitment to that end. Cover Contents Partnership Strategic Plan Craftsmanship Stewardship Friendship Financials Lists Support Info 7 The Strategic Plan Cover Contents Partnership Strategic Plan Craftsmanship Stewardship Friendship Financials Lists Support Info 8 THE STRATEGIC PLAN 8 The Strategic Plan In 2010 the Conservancy developed a forward-thinking, ten-year Innovation in Operations strategic plan for Central Park. Now three years later, thanks to We have reshaped our operations management to separate our the extraordinary $100 million dollar gift from the Paulson Family horticulture initiatives from basic landscape maintenance and Foundation, the new ten-year operating and capital agreements sanitation, employing state-of-the-art equipment in all areas. The with the City of New York, and the creation of the Central Park outcome of this initiative will result in a more efficient and more Conservancy Institute for Urban Parks, we have been given the professional focus for each of these critically important functions. opportunity to accelerate the implementation of the
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