YOUR MONTHLY MILE | September 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 Central Park Conservancy’s mission to restore, manage, and enhance Central Park.

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4 1 The Pilgrim 2 Waldo Hutchins Bench Our journey begins with the Pilgrim Southeast of statue, one of the most-loved is a curved white granite bench structures in the Park and a gift dedicated to Waldo Hutchins, a from the New England Society. member of the original Board of

5TH AVENUE 5TH Since 1885, the Pilgrim has Commissioners for Central Park. watched over picnics, proposals, It bears two Latin inscriptions and sled races from his perch on that translate to “One must live 3 top of Pilgrim Hill. In the spring, for another if he wishes to live Conservatory visit the Pilgrim for a stunning for himself” and “Let it not be Water showcase of Yoshino cherry trees destroyed by the passage of time.” The Lake 1 that blanket the landscape in pink. 2 In 2015, the Conservancy cleaned him and replaced several bandolier straps that had gone missing over E 72 the years.

3 Hans Christian Andersen 4 Glade Arch 5 Cedar Hill 6 The Obelisk One of the most popular climbing Glade Arch, one of the Park’s A classic pastoral landscape, The Obelisk, nicknamed Cleopatra’s sculptures in the Park, this statue oldest features, was designed Cedar Hill is a popular spot Needle, dates back to 1450 B.C., depicts Hans Christian Andersen, by Central Park co-designer for picnicking, reading, and when it was originally carved on best known for fairy tales such as Calvert Vaux. Constructed in sunbathing, and in winter is one of the banks of the Nile. This “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” 1862, the arch originally carried the Park’s most popular sledding 69-foot, 220-ton granite structure “The Little Mermaid,” and “The Ugly carriage traffic from within the hills. Its name comes from the red is the oldest outdoor monument in Duckling.” The statue, sculpted Park to Fifth Avenue. Although cedars on its crest, but several City. After it arrived in by Georg Lober in 1956, holds a it was designed to be wide other varieties of evergreens dot America in 1880, it took 112 days secret — Lober inscribed a note of enough for horse and carriage the hill as well. to transfer the Obelisk from the devotion and encouragement to transportation, today the arch Hudson River into the Park, where his wife Nellie in the palm of Hans’ is used as a pedestrian path for it was finally turned upright for all left hand. Park visitors. to enjoy. In 2013, the Conservancy cleaned the monument, revealing its granite surface and hieroglyphs that had been obscured by decades of dirt and pollution.

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