Central Park is the home of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum Mile, SummerStage, Shakespeare in the Park, Global Citizen Festival, and Central Park Tango.
This photo is looking south with the East River on the left and the Hudson River on the right. The ball fields in the foreground are the North Meadow. The big lake is the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, New York City’s main water supply. New Yorkers walk around it like an exercise track. South of the reservoir are the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Great Lawn.
Latin Culture in Central Park
SEPTEMBER
Music Festival
The Global Citizen Festival 2024 music festival features Hugh Jackman hosting performances by ALOK, Doja Cat, Rauw Alejandro, Raye, and more on the Great Lawn in Central Park on Saturday, September 28, 2024 at 4pm (Gates open 2pm). The show ends around 10pm. From $275 or earn tickets through actions on the Global Citizen app or website and a ticket draw. 🇧🇷 🇬🇭 🇵🇷 🇿🇦 🇰🇷
MAY
Summer Festival
SummerStage, New York City’s free summer performing arts festival (with a few benefits) is in New York City Parks in all five boroughs; from May through October.
The Blue Note Jazz Festival, Brasil Summerfest, and Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC), usually participate in SummerStage.
JUNE
Argentine Tango Dance Party
Central Park Tango is a free outdoor milonga (tango dance party) at the Shakespeare Statue on the south end of The Mall, on Saturdays, from June through September, from 6-9:30pm. Pay-what-you-wish. We give $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Casa de Tango is Anthony Blackwell’s free outdoor milonga (tango dance party); at the King Jagiello Monument on the 79th St path; on Thursdays, from June through September, from 5-9pm. Pay-what-you-wish. We give $20. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Classical Music Festival
Concerts in the Parks is the New York Philharmonic’s summer festival of classical music at NYC Parks in all five boroughs. Concert usually end with fireworks which are spectacular with The City as a backdrop.
AUGUST
African American Festival
Harlem Week celebrates Black culture in and around Harlem, Manhattan. Great Jazz on the Great Hill brings jazz to the Great Hill in Central Park, which was once Seneca Village, the first free African American neighborhood in New York City.
Argentine Tango Dance Party
Casa de Tango is Anthony Blackwell’s free outdoor milonga (tango dance party); at the King Jagiello Monument on the 79th St path; on Thursdays, from June through September, from 5-9pm. Pay-what-you-wish. We give $20. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Central Park Tango is a free outdoor milonga (tango dance party) at the Shakespeare Statue on the south end of The Mall, on Saturdays, from June through September, from 6-9:30pm. Pay-what-you-wish. We give $20. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Central Park Culture Venues
The Delacorte Theater is the summer home of Shakespeare in the Park.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is New York City’s encyclopedia of art.
About Central Park
Central Park connects Midtown with Upper Manhattan. Harlem is above the Park at 110th St. The Upper West Side and Upper East Side are the Park’s wings. The bottom of the Park at 59th St is Midtown. The buildings that ring the park are the most expensive properties in New York City.
The top of Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Ave) is graced with memorials to José Martí (🇨🇺), Simón Bolívar (🇨🇴) and José de San Martín( 🇦🇷) because the Avenue was originally dedicated to the nations of the Americas.
The Park was built from 1857-1876 is entirely man-made, including the reservoir, lakes, streams, and even many of the boulders.