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Central Park Mall
Architectural feature in New York City's Central Park / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
40.772764°N 73.971437°W / 40.772764; -73.971437
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The Central Park Mall is a pedestrian esplanade in Central Park, in Manhattan, New York City. The mall, leading to Bethesda Fountain, provides the only purely formal feature in the naturalistic original plan of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux for Central Park.