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  About the City Zoos
Groundbreaking for the Prospect Park Zoo project occurred in August, 1989, beginning the $37 million renovation of the badly deteriorated zoo.
It was the second of three "city zoos" to be renovated and operated by Wildlife Conservation Society, through a partnership with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
Unlike the much older Central Park and Prospect Park zoos (which were renovated and reopened by WCS in 1988 and 1993, respectively), the Queens Zoo had only existed since 1968.
nyzoosandaquarium.com /czabout   (956 words)

  
 Central Park Zoo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
No zoo was envisaged in Olmsted and Vaux's original "Greensward" design for Central Park, but the Central Park menagerie evolved from gifts of exotic pets and other animals informally given to the Park.
By 1980, the zoo, like Central Park itself, was sadly dilapidated; in that year, responsibility for its management was assumed by the New York Zoological Society.
The zoo was closed in the winter of 1983, and demolition began.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Central_Park_Zoo   (495 words)

  
 WELCOME TO APD CENTRAL PARK PAGE
Central Park is located in Manhattan, between 59th and 110th streets, and between 5th and 8th avenues.
Central Park provides New Yorkers with a much-needed escape from the concrete, noise and traffic that is part of everyday life.
The Central Park Wildlife Conservation Center is home to over 100 species of animals from three different climate zones: the Tropics, the Polar Circle, and the California Coast.
www.angelfire.com /pa5/apdwax/CENTRALPARK.HTML   (1248 words)

  
 Central Park Zoo and Tisch Children's Zoo, New York
The Central Park Zoo's five acres seem tiny compared to the over five hundred acre sprawl of the Bronx Zoo.
Like the Prospect Park Wildlife Center, this zoo is arranged in a circle around a sea lion pool; a pathway that takes you past the outdoor pens that have monkeys, otters, water birds, and polar bears.
The Tisch Children’s Zoo, just across 65th Street from the Central Park Zoo, is a petting zoo with mostly farm animals; pigs, cows, sheep and goats as well as rabbits, turtles and some waterfowl.
www.ny.com /museums/central.park.zoo.wildlife.gallery.html   (418 words)

  
 Central Park Walking Tours: Tour 1
Park designers Olmsted and Vaux cleverly submerged this beautifully landscaped refuge far below the noisy street level of 59th street to provide an immediate escape from the hustle and bustle of the city stress.
A park favorite since it's creation in 1871, this 3rd rendition is a 5.5 acre cage-less home to 450 animals of over 100 species including polar bears, red pandas, penguins, piranhas, and Gila monsters, to name a few.
Park officials claim directions to this popular monument to the hero sled dog and Hollywood star is the second most frequently asked question after the location to the nearest bathroom.
www.centralparkwalkingtours.com /Tour_1/tour1.htm   (278 words)

  
 New York (city)/Central Park - Wikitravel
Central Park [1] is the largest park in New York (city), forming a vast green swathe of open space in Uptown Manhattan and a district in its own right, neatly separating the Upper East Side from the Upper West Side, whilst lying south of Harlem.
Central Park is well-known globally after its appearance in many movies and television shows, making it one of the most famous city parks in the world.
Central Park became increasingly run-down and crime-ridden in the late 20th century, hitting a low at the end of the 1970s, after which the Central Park Conservancy was founded in 1980.
wikitravel.org /en/New_York_(city)/Central_Park   (813 words)

  
 NY.com: Central Park, New York City
New York's Central Park is the first urban landscaped park in the United States.
Central Park spans two and a half miles from 59th Street to 110th Street and half a mile from Fifth Avenue to Eighth Avenue.
The park is home to numerous restaurants, playgrounds, the Metropolitan Museum, the Central Park Zoo, and Wollman Rink.
www.ny.com /sights/neighborhoods/central_park.html   (198 words)

  
 Central Park Zoo Volunteers
Central Park Wildlife Guides are part of one of the nation's greatest institutions.
The Central Park Zoo, also known as the Central Park Zoo, is a special place, where visitors can journey from the steaming tropics to the frigid poles without leaving Manhattan.
After acceptance into the program, each volunteer is asked to make a commitment to the CPZ for a minimum of one year, commencing with the successful completion of the training course.
www.wcs.org /getinvolved/volunteers/centralpark?preview=&psid=&ph=class=awc-148772/2   (963 words)

  
 Central Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Central Park (40°46′59″N, 73°58′20″W) is a large public, urban park (843 acres or 3.41 km²; a rectangle 2.5 statute miles by 0.5 statute mile, or 4 km × 800 m) in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
Central Park is bordered on the north by West 110th Street, on the west by Central Park West, on the south by West 59th Street, and on the east by Fifth Avenue.
Central Park is a popular birding spot during spring and fall migration, when birds flying over Manhattan are attracted to the prominent oasis.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Central_Park   (3629 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Nation / Central Park Zoo polar bear put to death   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Lily, an 18-year-old polar bear that was one of the Central Park Zoo's premier attractions, has died.
The bear came from a zoo in Germany in 1989 when she was 3 and had lived with the Central Park Zoo's other polar bears, Gus and Ida.
The average lifespan of a polar bear, both in the wild and in captivity, is 20 years, the zoo said.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/06/14/central_park_zoo_polar_bear_put_to_death?mode=PF   (244 words)

  
 IMLS - Project Profiles - Featured Project Profiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Central Park Zoo, an innovator in interpretive concepts for zoos, has turned to poetry in its quest to portray the significance of the earth’s loss of biodiversity.
The zoo felt that poetry could be the gateway for voices from both near and far that have valued wildlife and conservation during the course of human history.
The zoo project planners had a sense that the project could be a powerful way to increase visitor awareness of conservation issues, but planned to test the project’s true effectiveness with a scientific study.
www.imls.gov /profiles/Apr06.shtm   (1260 words)

  
 Wildlife Center and Children's Zoo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Although most New Yorkers still call it the Zoo, the Central Park Wildlife Center is eager to shed the old name.
They believe "zoo" connotes small cages for animals and concrete floors for "habitat" with no commitment to the conservation of threatened and endangered species.
Central Park's state-of-the-art Wildlife Center was built after the Wildlife Conservation Society took over the management in 1984.
centralparknyc.org /virtualpark/southend/wildlifecenter-childrenszoo   (678 words)

  
 http://www.thecityreview.com/zoo.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Amid considerable embarrassment, the various involved park officials scrambled and, luckily for them, the Tisch family came to the rescue with the required funding and are now honored by a relatively large metal sign just within the remnants of the handsome old gate.
While the old zoo had a cartoony architecture that was whimsical, the new one has three gargantuan tree-trunks, each completely artificial, albeit done with impressive detail and, one should think, expense, and not quite exquisite hanging plastic strips.
The larger zoo was rebuilt several years ago at the urging and insistence of the same zoological people who felt that the old zoo was not a proper environment for animals.
www.thecityreview.com /zoo.htm   (1003 words)

  
 New York City Zoos
In fact, the zoo is host to over 20,000 children a year through their extensive agenda of educational programs.
The plan for the Staten Island Zoo that opened in 1936 was for one red brick building in the shape of a T. The center of the T would be a rotunda that would house the aqaurium.
Barrett Park was the location of the zoo and also the name of the zoo.
www.newyorkcityzoos.com /si.html   (707 words)

  
 Wily coyote caught in New York's Central Park - Boston.com
A coyote that came to New York to dine on duck in Central Park was caught on Wednesday after leading police and park rangers on a two-day chase.
A wild coyote was on the run in New York's Central Park on Wednesday, pursued by police and park authorities on foot and in a helicopter.
Local television stations showed footage of police and park rangers running through the park in pursuit of the animal, which has been hunting ducks and other birds, leaving piles of feathers in its wake.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/03/22/wily_coyote_caught_in_new_yorks_central_park   (582 words)

  
 Central Park Wildlife Center - Zoos - Are We There Yet?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Renovated and reopened several years ago, the Central Park Wildlife Center was the first of the New York Zoological Society's city zoos to be revitalized.
This beautiful oasis in the heart of "the concrete jungle" is well designed and organized to present the public with a wide variety of wildlife in simulated natural habitat.
Central Garden is a highlight of Temperate Territory.
www.fieldtrip.com /ny/28616030.htm   (434 words)

  
 BARRETT PARK - Historical Sign   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Clarence T. Barrett Park Zoo (also known as Staten Island Zoo) is located in the park, and honors Barrett at the site where he once operated a plant nursery.
The zoo is one of six in New York parks: the Bronx Zoo, the Central Park Zoo, the Central Park Children’s Zoo, the Prospect Park Wildlife Center, and the Queens Wildlife Center.
The exhibits, and the zoo’s care for its animals were models for future zoos.
nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=12086   (645 words)

  
 The Central Park Zoo (Images of America: New York)
Since the 1860s, Central Park has been the home of three different zoos: the menagerie, the zoo of 1934, and what is today known as the Central Park Zoo.
With stunning, rarely seen images, The Central Park Zoo not only is a treat for the eyes but also comes alive with the barking of sea lions, the soft fur of snow monkeys, the sweet smell of peanut butter, and the taste of rice cake treats for the zoo residents, of course.
Her familiarity with the city's history and architecture, her love of zoos, and her extraordinary talent as a researcher and writer combine to create this loving tribute to one of the city's most memorable places.
www.cpzbook.com /index.html   (516 words)

  
 New York City Zoos
The Central Park Zoo, The Bronx Zoo, The Prospect Park Zoo and the Staten Island Zoo all began as a collection of animals in the local park.
The Queens Zoo was the last of the zoos in New York City and was built at the site of the 1964 World's Fair.
The bar-less zoo is now the norm where carefully planned naturalistic habitats are the homes for hundreds of species of wildlife living in species-typical social groups.
www.newyorkcityzoos.com   (414 words)

  
 Central Park's Official Website by the Central Park Conservancy
Fall is considered by many to be the most magical of seasons, and Central Park is the perfect place to celebrate it.
The Central Park Composting Operation at the Mount
Give now to The Campaign for Central Park and your gift will be matched, doubling the benefit to the Park.
www.centralparknyc.org   (266 words)

  
 Central Park: People: Zoo Curator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rowden’s mom may not have always loved his menagerie when he was a boy, but now that Rowden is the curator at the Central Park Zoo, she feels differently about her son spending all his time with animals.
And the Central Park Zoo, which Rowden can walk to from his Upper East Side apartment, is a special place, he says.
Rowden thinks that despite its small size, the zoo is accomplishing its mission and making a difference in the lives of urban dwellers.
www.nyc24.org /2005/centralpark/people/zoo.html   (643 words)

  
 The Central Park Zoo at CentralPark.com
Construction was finished by 1985 and the new Central Park Zoo was a reality, and the park once again was home to a facility which is considered one of the finest of its kind.
The new zoo is divided into several different sections which provide the animals with homes as close to their natural habitat as possible.
The zoo is also actively involved the preservation of endangered species, providing a home for rare tamarin monkeys, Wyoming toads, thick-billed parrots, and red pandas.
www.centralpark.com /pages/central-park-zoo.html   (886 words)

  
 Elmwood Park Zoo >> South/Central America
While the previous three habitats and their inhabitants are defined as biomes, this section, containing animals from South and Central America, is more properly described as a region.
The countries of South and Central America encompass an amazingly diverse series of habitats including grassland, desert, tropical and temperate forests, coral reefs, mountains, and wetlands.
Jaguars take advantage of the many types of environments in their region by having an individual range of up to 200 miles that may include dense jungle, scrubland, swamp, and shoreline woods.
www.elmwoodparkzoo.org /animals/exhibits/america.html   (211 words)

  
 Meet the Central Park Zoo’s New Curator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Over the last 14 years I have been involved in field research with birds in museums and zoos as well as across the globe in such far-flung places as the Kingdom of Tonga and Papua New Guinea.
JS: I believe zoos are of major importance in the urban landscape.
Zoos offer the average citizen the opportunity to have an intimate, meaningful experience with wild animals.
www.nyzoosandaquarium.com /cpz_news/28595658   (539 words)

  
 AM New York - New York City newspaper for New York and NYC News, Sports, Entertainment, Restaurant reviews, Ground ...
Central Park is bigger than the principality of Monaco.
You have only to remember the park before the Conservancy to appreciate how successful it has been.
Click your mouse over a portion of the Park to find out what interests, secrets or landmarks are located there.
www.amny.com /centralpark   (191 words)

  
 EarthCam - Penguin Cam
This new EarthCam webcam provides a great view of the Central Park Zoo's Edge of the Icepack building, home to a thriving group of chinstrap and gentoo penguins.
This NYC landmark inaugurated the current trend in urban zoos in America: the conversion of cages into environmental exhibits that educate and connect people to our natural world.
The zoo guides visitors through tropic, temperate and polar regions to encounter native animals.
www.earthcam.com /usa/newyork/cpzoo   (226 words)

  
 Partymakers
The Central Park Zoo, through the services of Linda Kaye's Birthdaybakers Partymakers, has created the wildest and most imaginative birthday celebrations in the city.
Balloons: For the animals' safety, it is the Central Park Wildlife Center policy that children not take balloons outside the Zoo School Building after the party.
Parking: The nearest parking garage is Colony Garage at 30 East 65th Street (between Park & Madison).
www.partymakers.com /parties_nyc_central.html   (1064 words)

  
 New York City Parks & Zoos - Central Park Zoo
Central Park’s multi-disciplinary programs incorporate theater, the visual arts, and science for children and adults.
In addition, more than 65,000 children and parents attended 2,000 performances at the Daniel Cowin Acorn Theater in the Tisch Children’s Zoo.Central Park Zoo Central Park’s multi-disciplinary programs incorporate theater, the visual arts, and science for children and adults.
This year, the Central Park Zoo Guides, a cohort of 130 strong, provided 126,542 zoo visitors with 16,000 hours of volunteer service.
newyorkkids.net /newyorkcitykids_parks_zoos/central_park_zoo.htm   (645 words)

  
 Central Park Zoo in New York, NY - AOL City Guide
The Wildlife Center is much more than a zoo in that it provides naturally designed habitats for the animals rather than confining the animals to cages with concrete floors.
Hosting animal species from tropical, temperate and polar regions around the world, the Central Park Zoo allows visitors to observe the animals enjoying the comforts of a simulated natural environment.
The zoo also features an "Enchanted Forest," educational models, an aviary (which includes turtles, frogs and birds in a simulated habitat) and daily shows about animals at the Acorn Theatre.
cityguide.aol.com /newyork/entertainment/central-park-zoo/v-106952972   (596 words)

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