Stretching in an L-shape from Bryant Park to Central Park, from Fifth Avenue to Columbus Circle is Midtown Manhattan. One of the highest concentrations of skyscrapers in the world.
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Central Park stretches from North 110th Street to Central Park South (59th Street), and from Central Park West (8th Avenue) to 5th Ave.
Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, Central Park influenced the development of urban parks nationwide and is widely regarded a masterpiece of landscape architecture. Central Park is a National Historic Landscape (1963) and a Scenic Landscape of the City of New York (1974).
Central Park ranks between 18th and 25th on the list of the largest parks in the world. Central Park is one of the largest urban parks in the world. However, it is not the largest. The largest urban park in the world is actually Chugach State Park, which is in Anchorage, Alaska.