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Letchworth State
Park is a New York state park located 35 miles southwest of Rochester and 60 miles southeast of Buffalo in Livingston and Wyoming counties. The park is roughly 17 miles long, covering 14,350 acres of land along the Genesee River. The territory of the park was long part of the
homeland of the Seneca people, who were largely forced out after the American
Revolutionary War. Source
Watkins Glen State
Park is located outside the village of Watkins Glen, New York, south of Seneca
Lake in Schuyler County in the Finger Lakes region. The park's lower part is
near the village, while the upper part is open woodland. It was opened to the
public in 1863 and was privately run as a tourist resort until 1906, when it
was purchased by New York State. Since 1924, it has been managed by the Finger
Lakes Region of the New York State Office of Park. Source
Watkins Glen is a village in Schuyler County, New York, United States. The population was 1,859 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Schuyler County. The Village of Watkins Glen lies within the towns of Dix and Reading. The village was incorporated in 1842 as Salubria, then "Jefferson", but was renamed Watkins after Dr. Samuel Watkins, for his contributions to the community. The current name Watkins Glen was adopted in 1926. The first settlement of European peoples in the area began circa 1800. Watkins Glen was the northern terminus of the Chemung Canal, connecting Seneca Lake to the Chemung River. Catherine Creek, flowing into the lake through the village, was used to help create the canal. Source
Central Park is an urban park in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It was initially opened in 1857, on 778 acres of city-owned land (it is 843 acres today). In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they titled the Greensward Plan. Construction began the same year, continued during the American Civil War, and was completed in 1873. Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962, the park is currently managed by the Central Park Conservancy under contract with the city government. The Conservancy is a non-profit organization that contributes 83.5% of Central Park's $37.5 million annual budget and employs 80.7% of the park's maintenance staff. Source
Brooklyn Botanic
Garden (BBG) is a botanical
garden in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Located near the Prospect
Heights, Crown Heights, Flatbush, and Park Slope neighborhoods, the 52-acre garden includes a number of specialty "gardens within the
Garden," plant collections, and the Steinhardt Conservatory, which houses
the C.V. Starr Bonsai Museum, three climate-themed plant pavilions, a white cast-iron
and glass aquatic plant house, and an art gallery. Founded in 1910, the Garden
holds over 10,000 taxa of plants and each year welcomes over 900,000 visitors
from around the world. Source
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with about 2.6 million people, as well as the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is the most populous county in New York and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, after New York County (Manhattan). Today, if it were an independent city, Brooklyn would rank as the fourth most populous city in the U.S., behind only the other boroughs of New York combined, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Brooklyn was an independent incorporated city (and previously an authorized village and town within the provisions of the New York State Constitution, until January 1, 1898 when, after a long political campaign and public relations battle during the 1890's, according to the new Municipal Charter of "Greater New York", Brooklyn was consolidated with the other cities, boroughs and counties to form the modern "City of New York" surrounding the Upper New York Bay with five constituent boroughs. It continues however to maintain a distinct culture, as befitting the former second or third largest city in America during the later 19th Century. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves where particular ethnic and nationality groups and cultures predominate. Source
