How much does Central Park in New York spend and how does it earn

Central Park covers an area of ​​341 hectares. According to the most rough estimates of real estate agents, the hypothetical value of the land as of 2005 (later nobody counted) was about $ 528 billion. To buy it at the same price now, all inhabitants of the Earth would have to chip off about $ 70. However, even in this case, no one will sell him - New Yorkers love him too much. They are happy to participate in financing it. How? Read on and find out!

Until the 1980s, the park was somehow interrupted, sometimes flourishing, then again losing its gloss due to lack of funding, writes TUT.by.

That all changed in 1980 with the creation of a non-profit organization for the conservation of Central Park and the decision to move from public funding to private funding. The idea to involve the residents of the city in the care of the natural monument took root. Today, 75% of Central Park's annual budget, which is $ 74 million, comes from private donations. Since 1980, over a billion dollars have been invested in this area.

In Central Park, everything is arranged so organically that you can admire everything: huge baseball fields, dog walking areas, playgrounds with endless sandboxes, wooden castles, Swedish walls, swings, slides, horizontal bars.

Revelation shops

Even the benches are more than just seating. There are about 9 thousand of them in the park. About half of them have plaques with commemorative inscriptions.

The first such signs appeared in 1986. Thus, the park administration decided to raise money for the maintenance of the benches and the surrounding area. More than 20 years ago the service cost 5 thousand dollars. Now it is twice as much. For this money, anyone can make and hang a sign with their own text on the bench.

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The service is in demand. With tablets, Americans confess their love to each other, make an offer, honor the memory of deceased relatives and pets, rejoice at the birth of children, or simply declare their love for a park known throughout the world.

Here are some striking signs that can be found on benches now:

• “I love you very much and I can't wait for our wedding ... but if we quarrel, you can always sleep here”
• “Sit down. Relax. Take a deep breath. Enjoy the day"
• “In this magnificent park I walked, talked, sat, read. Life is more difficult than a walk in the park, and I lived it my own way ”
• "My favorite place. In my favorite park. In my favorite city in the world ”
• “Thank you Central Park for the many wonderful years we have all spent in your loving arms.”

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Adopting trees, flowers and buying sand

In addition to a sign on a bench in Central Park, you can take care of one of 20 thousand trees. Anyone will be allowed to choose that single oak, chestnut or other tree and donate 5 thousand dollars for its maintenance. In exchange, the patron will be allowed to lay a six-pointed tile with a commemorative text.

You can also support playgrounds. Every year, 120 tons of sand are changed in the sandboxes of Central Park. Anyone can donate 25, 50 or 75 dollars for this purpose and receive a certificate indicating the date of donation and the amount of sand that was bought for this amount.

In addition, you can please your dear person not with a bouquet of freshly cut flowers that will soon die, but with living buds in the park's flower beds. You can transfer from 50 to 150 dollars to Central Park, and with this money, daffodils, tulips or chrysanthemums will be bought and planted in the flower beds. In addition, a certificate will be sent to the person you donated for.

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All funds raised go to the maintenance of the park, cleaning, maintenance and renovation. The accounting department, which is posted on the administration website, is very specific and detailed.

Walkways and shopping carts

For supporters of a healthy lifestyle, several multi-lane tracks have been arranged in the park. The rules are the same as on the track: those who run slower keep to the right. In the morning and in the evening, traffic on them is intense.

“Everyone is running around here: children, young people, old people, mothers and fathers with strollers,” explained a local resident.

There are always a lot of people in Central Park in the morning. Who does not run, he rides a bicycle or a wheelchair. There are several routes of different lengths in the park.

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As the runners make another round of Central Park, the street food vendors set up their carts. There are not many of them here, and all are made in the same style. The places for the carts are strictly defined and sold through an auction. Vendors rent a cart and a shopping spot from a private street vendor.

According to one of the merchants, Central Park is an ideal place to trade Hoddogs. New Yorkers often pass by, but tourists stop. On average, about 200 hot dogs could be sold per day before the pandemic, and there are still pretzels, bagels, coffee, tea and soft drinks.