No need to scatter bread crumbs along your walk to find your way back home.
Every lamppost in the park has a number printed on it. The numbers refer to the cross street you are near, and how far into the park you are, in terms of the number of posts from the street. In addition to the cross street, some of them also bear a W, C, or E, corresponding, respectively, to the western, central or eastern part of the park.
So, the lamppost above is located where East 86th Street would be. And it tells you that you are 2 posts in from 5th Avenue.
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Wow. That certainly represents thorough planning, doesn't it? I'd have to practice for a while to get it straight, but I like it.
merci pour le renseignement, je ne savais pas et moi qui me perd tout le temps dans central park (une horreur pour moi), je vais note cela. Dans une semaine, NYC................
Elaine, I am sure I would still be lost trying to decipher that.
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Good grief! I've been to Central Park approximately 8 zillion times and I never knew that!
Thanks for letting me know, because - despite my 8 zillion visits - I *always* manage to get lost in Central Park.
That's fascinating. I didn't know that either, not that it would have helped me. Numbers and me don't always get along...
Very interesting.
I would love to be in Central Park! Looks very nice!
The street numbering in New York is simply brilliant!
With Central Park being as large as it is, anything to help the tourists, and even New Yorkers alike, to have an easier way to navigate their way around the park
Ok, very clever, indeed, and helpful, I suppose, if you aren't a tad dyslexic, like yours truly. 8) Numbers... Sigh.
this will take some practise ....but great thinking on the part of administrators...i dont believe in breadcrumbs ever since i read Hansel and gretel :)
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•lynette: nah - it's quite simple really. It's like walking in the street, you know at which height you are by looking at the lampposts.
•olivier: contente que tu puisse mettre ceci en pratique si rapidement. Tu vas voir comme cela te facilite la vie: il suffit de retenir où sont les transversales (sorties du parc) et zou!
•steve: maybe I made it sound so much more complicated than it is. It is supra simple, really.
annulla•: I can relate. Before knowing that I kept missing the exit street. It sooo useful.
•jilly: well either way, you can use it at your next cocktail party then. ;)
•sonia: it IS very nice. Come on over! :)
•peter: it makes our lives much easier. When we know about it, that is. ;)
•blue: couldn't agree more. I learned about it when I started running in the park: the coach made us count the lampposts!
•fénix: nah, you wouldn't get lost even if you mix the numbers. You'll see immediately that you can't really be in Central Park at a cross street corresponding to Chelsea.
•moi: it's in Le Petit Poucet, not Hansel and Gretel. It a great thing to know - very motivating if you are running in the park.
•???: !!! ???
That's a good explanation of the tagging of lamp post.
Now it make sense :-)
•keropok: glad I clarified the mystery.
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