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Public park in Manhattan, New York

This article is about the public park in New York City. For other uses, see Central Park (disambiguation).

Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, and the first landscaped park in the United States.

It is the sixth-largest park in the city, containing acres (&#;ha), and the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 42&#;million visitors annually as of ^[update]. It is also one of the most filmed locations in the world.

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The creation of a large park in Manhattan was first proposed in the s, and a acre (&#;ha) park approved in In , landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition for the park with their "Greensward Plan".

Construction began in ; existing structures, including a majority-Black settlement named Seneca Village, were seized through eminent domain and razed. The park's f