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REU7689806: A lone snowy Egret stands in a stream in the North Woods section of New York's famed Central Park, July 14, 2003. Central Park, arguably America's most famous public green space, turns 150 years old this summer. For New Yorkers, the park, in the middle of Manhattan is an urban oasis. It's 843 acres, with some 26,000 trees, 58 miles of pathways, 9,000 benches, many fields, woods, waterways and nature sancturary's are the master work of what was called "The Greenswald Plan" designed by London-trained architect Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, who later became the most prominent landscape architecht in America. / Bridgeman Images