Is Central Park, a city par, a state park, or a national park?
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The Central Park Conservancy is a private, not-for-profit organization founded in 1980 that manages Central Park under a contract with the City of New York/Department of Parks and Recreation. Thanks to the generosity of many individuals, corporations, and foundations, the Conservancy has raised more than $300 million to date and has transformed Central Park into a model for urban parks nationwide. The Conservancy provides more than 85% of Central Park's annual $23 million operating budget and is responsible for all basic care of the Park. \n\nWith 25 million visitors each year to its 843 acres, Central Park is the most frequently visited urban park in the United States.  To manage the Park, Conservancy crews aerate and seed lawns; rake leaves; prune and fertilize trees; plant shrubs and flowers; maintain ballfields and playgrounds; remove graffiti; conserve monuments, bridges, and buildings; and care for waterbodies and woodlands, controlling erosion, maintaining the drainage system, and protecting over 150 acres of lakes and streams from pollution, siltation, and algae.
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I think New York City.
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"When and how did New York City come to be called "The Big Apple'?"\nThis is by far the most frequently asked question submitted to our New York History Hotline.\n\nIn popular folklore, the name is usually traced to early jazz musicians or long-ago sports figures. Often, the explanation of the so-called "origin" of this phrase is accompanied with plausible-sounding historical or biographical details, giving it an unmistakable (but alas, totally spurious) "ring of truth."\n\nBecause this question continues to excite curiosity, and because the real facts are quite well known to serious historians, we provide the following authoritative account, based on our unique archival sources. The story may disappoint some readers -- truth, after all, is often less colorful than fiction. But facts are facts.\n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nIn the early years of the nineteenth century, refugees from war-torn Europe began arriving in New York in great numbers. Many were remnants of the crumbling French aristocracy, forced to seek refuge abroad from the dread "Monsieur Guillotine." Arriving here without funds or friends, many of these were forced to survive, as one contemporary put it, "by their wits or worse."\nOne of these, arriving in late 1803 or early 1804, was Mlle. Evelyn Claudine de Saint-Évremond. Daughter of a noted courtier, wit, and littérateur, and herself a favorite of Marie Antoinette, Evelyn was by all accounts remarkably attractive: beautiful, vivacious, and well-educated, and she was soon a society favorite. For reasons never disclosed, however, a planned marriage the following year to John Hamilton, son of the late Alexander Hamilton, was called off at the last minute. Soon after, with support from several highly placed admirers, she established a salon -- in fact, it appears to have been an elegantly furnished bordello -- in a substantial house that still stands at 142 Bond Street, then one of the city's most exclusive residential districts.\n\nEvelyn's establishment quickly won, and for several decades maintained, a formidable reputation as the most entertaining and discreet of the city's many "temples of love," a place not only for lovemaking, but also for elegant dinners, high-stakes gambling, and witty conversation. The girls, many of them fresh arrivals from Paris or London, were noted for their beauty and bearing. More than a few of them, apparently, were actually able to secure wealthy husbands from among the establishment's clientele.\n\nWhen New Yorkers insisted on anglicizing her name to "Eve," Evelyn apparently found the biblical reference highly amusing, and for her part would refer to the temptresses in her employ as "my irresistable apples." The young men-about-town soon got into the habit of referring to their amorous adventures as "having a taste of Eve's Apples." This knowing phrase established the speaker as one of the "in" crowd, and at the same time made it clear he had no need to visit one of the coarser establishments that crowded nearby Mercer Street, for instance. The enigmatic reference in Philip Hone's famous diary to "Ida, sweet as apple cider" (October 4, 1838) has been described as an oblique reference to a visit to what had by then become a notorious but cherished civic institution.\n\nThe rest, as they say, is etymological history.\n\nThe sexual connotation of the word "apple" was well known in New York and throughout the country until around World War I. The Gentleman's Directory of New York City, a privately published (1870) guide to the town's "houses of assignation," confidently asserted that "in freshness, sweetness, beauty, and firmness to the touch, New York's apples are superior to any in the New World or indeed the Old." Meanwhile, various &
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New York City... nuff said...
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The stereotype is over exagerated. I used to spend at least 2 weeks a year in New York for my company and found the people to be mostly very friendly and helpful. It is true that everyone is in a hurry and if you stand still in the middle of a sidewalk you may get walked over, but all in all New York is a fun, exciting city full of life and interesting people. I think you will enjoy it there.
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In my town, be it small, it is very full w/ great places to go and things to do.  We have the Mars Cheese Castle, the Dairlyland Greyhound Park, a great miniature golf course that is adjacent to an amusement area.  We have the lake with countless parks and a really nice museum that is generally free.  Even the locals like visiting all these places.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York
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http://www.stateparks.com/lake_taghkanic.html\n\nState Park Overview:\nLake Taghkanic State Park, nestled next to Lake Taghkanic in the rolling hills and lush forests of Columbia County, offers a wonderful variety of recreational activities. The park has tent and trailer campsites and cabin and cottage camping facilities, two beaches, picnic grounds and a boat launch. In addition, the park has hiking, biking, cross-country ski and snowmobile trails. Ice skating and ice fishing are permitted when conditions are appropriate.\n\nhttp://areas.wildernet.com/pages/area.cfm?areaID=NYAFP&CU_ID=1\n\nhttp://www.newyorksnowmobiling.com/packages.html
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Manhattan Plaza.  Cunningham Park queens, Stadium Tennis the Bronx.  It is supposed to be warm for a while so hit Central Park
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The central government would be the federal, or national government.  You can make sense of this by thinking that as it is the central govt., it is in the center of running everything.
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When it comes to property, it should be handled by the local or state government, not the federal.  The only time federal would be involved is in the issue regarding a national monument or park.  I'm not sure how that process works, but I would imagine most of the blame should be pointed at the local level.
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New York simply because of New York City.  There's so much culture.  Broadway is my favorite "tourist attraction" in NYC, but there's so much more.  Celebrity talk shows, TV shows, comedy clubs, museums, the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Wall Street, Times Square, Central Park, Little Italy, Chinatown, Greenwich Village, Columbia, shopping, bars, etc.  There really is something for everyone!
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Nyc is the big apple not the big easy
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Yahoo answers is a place just like a city park. Over there you have the little kids on the swing set just having fun. Over there are the potheads always watching for "The Man". At the picnic table are three guys discussing horses. Over under a tree is a young couple on a blanket gazing into each other's eyes. Ask each of them the same question and you will get four different answers. Some good answers and some not so good. The potheads will be flippant, the horse men will be better. Take it all with a grain of salt.
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If the state legislature can do it, then by virtue of the fact that a city a sub-entity of the state they can do it also.  Remember unlike the difference between the states and the federal government were the federal government can not dissolve a state, that a state creates and can dissolve a city.  Therefore a city is truly for all purposes a "department" within the state whos jurisdiction is not limited by the issue (unless the state says they can't) but rather by geography.
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29.0 in is the new record of snow set 1/12/06 (recorded in Central Park)
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A national park is just any piece of land set aside by the government to not be touched.  An example would be the "Emerald Circle" that winds through the Cleveland area.\n\nA wildlife sanctuary is a specific habitat of an animal that is endangered.  An example would be the wetlands in Arkansas where the Ivory Billed Woodpecker was recently seen.  This is protected in the same way that a national park is.\n\nA biosphere is a specific ecosystem, including all plants and possibly animals, that exists in an area not normally associated with this ecosystem.  Because of the translocation and possible interaction with local ecosystems, a biosphere must be completely enclosed and self-sustaining.  An example would be, say, a rainforest that is maintained within a zoo.