How Central Park Works
01/31/19 • 53 min
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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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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Stuff You Should Know - How Central Park Works
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Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from how Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bright, and Jerry Rowland over there. Uh, and this is stuff you should Know. Was that a real stare down? Yeah, Jerry one, Jerry one, because I was like, I don't have time for this any laundery. That's pretty funny because that's just sort of all the three of us. You guys are having a stare down over nothing. You're
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