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The Central Park Zoo is a 6.5-acre (2.6 ha) zoo located at the southeast corner of Central Park in New York City. It is part of an integrated system of four zoos and one aquarium managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).

Although the Zoological Society of Philadelphia chartered the Philadelphia Zoo 35 years before the New York Zoological Society was established, Central Park's zoo may be the oldest municipal zoo in the United States, and today the Central Park Zoo …

“The Animals” consists of 43 black-and-white images shot at the Central Park Zoo over a period of seven years from 1962 to 1969. Published by the Museum of Modern Art, the photos were created with a wide-angle lens, Winogrand’s preferred style after 1960.

The Central Park Zoo was built over the course of eight months in 1934 by workers employed by the Civil Works Administration and, after that program’s demise, by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. It succeeded the old Central Park Menagerie,

Jun 16, 2014 · Instead, the Central Park Zoo formed in the 1860s when New Yorkers began donating their unwanted pets to the city, and circuses needed a place to store their animals. From the donation of one...

The zoo in Central Park now attracts nearly a million visitors a year from all over the world. The new zoo is divided in several different sections that provide the animals with homes as close to their natural habitat as possible.

Aug 8, 2013 · Jim’s excitement over the reopening of the Central Park Zoo isn’t surprising. To any New Yorker, the renovation represented a new beginning for a park that had gotten run-down and somewhat dangerous in the 1970s.

Central Park’s zoo was almost not meant to be. Park designers, Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) and Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) excluded any zoo from their 1858 plan Yet, as park construction began a bear cub was left with park messenger boy, Philip Holmes.

On August 8, 1988, the new Central Park Zoo opened to record crowds. Today, this "newest, oldest" zoo attracts nearly one million visitors a year. Visitors can transition from a steamy rain forest to an icy Antarctic penguin habitat.