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Central Park
Central Park opened in stages beginning in 1858, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvin Vaux, who won a public design competition with a plan called the "Greensward Plan" that deliberately built in winding paths, sunken transverse roads, and naturalistic landscaping to make an 843-acre rectangle in the middle of Manhattan feel like an escape from the surrounding grid of streets rather than an extension of it. Building the park required moving an enormous amount of earth and rock and displacing several existing communities, including Seneca Village, a settlement of primarily Black property owners that was cleared through eminent domain during construction — a history the park's own visitor centers have increasingly worked to document and acknowledge in recent decades. The park's sunken transverse roads, a genuinely innovative design solution for their time, let cross-town traffic pass through the park's width without pedestrians in the park itself ever seeing or hearing the cars, a piece of engineering still cited by urban planners as ahead of its era. Today the park draws an estimated 42 million visits a year, making it one of the most visited urban parks in the world. For a New York City attractions list, Central Park is the essential "the city's green lungs" entry — an 1858 landscape-design landmark that turned 843 acres of Manhattan bedrock into the most visited urban park in the country, still built exactly the way Olmsted and Vaux drew it.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American businessmen, financiers, and artists who wanted to bring a world-class art institution to the United States, and it opened its doors the following year — not yet in its current Fifth Avenue building, which wouldn't open until 1880 and has been expanded repeatedly in the century and a half since. The Met's collection now spans more than two million works across 5,000 years of human history, from Egyptian antiquities and European Old Masters to American decorative arts and an entire reconstructed Temple of Dendur, an actual ancient Egyptian temple gifted to the United States and reassembled inside a dedicated wing overlooking Central Park. The museum's "pay what you wish" admission policy for New York State residents, a holdover from its founding mission to make world-class art broadly accessible, has made it one of the more debated but enduringly popular admission structures among major American museums, and its annual Met Gala, held in the museum's Costume Institute, has become one of the most closely watched events in global fashion. For a New York City attractions list, the Met is the essential "a lifetime, not an afternoon" entry — a 150-plus-year-old institution holding more than two million objects across five millennia, anchored on Fifth Avenue directly across from Central Park.
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