Central Park

Park · Manhattan

Central Park stretches through the middle of Manhattan from 59th Street to 110th Street, between Fifth Avenue and Central Park West.

  • 1.37 square miles
  • 61 street corners
  • 8 subway stations
  • 33 bus routes

Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won the 1858 design competition with their Greensward plan, and construction ran until 1873, making it the nation's first large-scale public park designed and built to a plan. Its 843 acres hold meadows, woodlands, lakes, the elm-lined Mall and Bethesda Terrace, and the City designated it a Scenic Landmark in 1974. Since 1980 the nonprofit Central Park Conservancy has managed the park in partnership with the City.

Sources: Central Park Designation Report (LP-0851, April 16, 1974) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Park History (Central Park Conservancy); Central Park (The Cultural Landscape Foundation); Central Park (UNESCO World Heritage Centre).

Map

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Central Park borders seven areas, and West Drive holds more of its corners than any other street, 23 of 61.

Street map of Central Park, Manhattan, outlined among Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Upper West Side (Central), Upper West Side-Lincoln Square and East Harlem (South), with its paths, the streets around it and its eight subway stations.Upper West Side-Manhattan ValleyEast Harlem (South)Harlem (South)Upper East Side-Carnegie HillUpper West Side-Lincoln SquareMidtown-Times SquareUpper West Side (Central)
  • Central Park
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) lines B C
  • 103 St lines B C
  • 96 St lines B C
  • 86 St lines B C
  • 81 St-Museum of Natural History lines B C
  • 72 St lines B C
  • 59 St-Columbus Circle lines 1 A B C D accessible
  • 5 Av/59 St lines N R W

Getting around

Eight subway stations and buses on 33 routes stop in or at the edge of Central Park.

  • 8 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 15 local bus routes
  • 18 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • M1
  • M2
  • M3
  • M4
  • M5
  • M7
  • M10
  • M20
  • M66
  • M72
  • M79-SBS
  • M86-SBS
  • M96
  • M104
  • M106

Express bus routes

  • BxM2
  • BxM3
  • BxM4
  • BxM6
  • BxM7
  • BxM8
  • BxM9
  • BxM10
  • BxM11
  • SIM1C
  • SIM3
  • SIM3C
  • SIM4C
  • SIM10
  • SIM23
  • SIM24
  • SIM30
  • SIM33C

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Manhattan corner.

  • 16 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 0.3 a corner, on average
  • 13.4 the average Manhattan corner
  • 57 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at five of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
3
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
2

Camera tickets

In 2025 the Department of Finance recorded no red-light, school-zone speed or bus-lane camera ticket at its corners.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
838.7 acres of Central Park, as NYC Parks maps it within the area's boundary
Designated landmarks
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Arsenal

Streets and trees

Trees
1,082 in NYC Parks' records, most often American elm, pin oak and maidenhair tree
Street with the most corners
West Drive, with 23 of the area's 61

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 11 bike-share stations stand in Central Park. The City's public art inventory lists 68 works in the area, among them Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schiller (1859), Eagles and Prey (1863) and Tigress and Cubs (1867).

  • 11 bike-share stations
  • 68 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

Central Park and the 22nd Precinct share one boundary, so the park's figures are counted from the complaints the NYPD gives to that precinct. In 2025 the NYPD recorded 85 major felonies in Central Park.

Recorded by the NYPD in Central Park

  • 99 major felonies in 2024
  • 221 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025
Major felonies recorded in Central Park, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 35 major felonies in Central Park, against 30 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.