At its inception, the southern portion of Central Park was considered by designers Olmsted and Vaux as the Children's District. This was because it was the first area of the park that would be reached by families traveling from the heart of the city, most of which lay below 38th St. at the time. One critical need of children at the time was for fresh milk, a series of scandals, as well as cholera outbreaks, having placed the dairy production of the city under a cloud of suspicion. The dairy was built to satisfy this need and provide a place where families could find a ready supply of fresh milk when traveling to the park. It now serves as both an information center and a gift shop.

Balto (c.1919-14 March 1933) was a Siberian Husky sled dog who led his team on the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome, in which diphtheria antitoxin was transported from Anchorage, Alaska to Nenana, Alaska by train and then to Nome by dog sled to combat an outbreak of the disease.

Gapstow Bridge is one of the icons of Central Park, Manhattan in New York City.

Conservatory Water, Central Park lies in a natural hollow near Fifth Avenue in New York City's Central Park, centered opposite 74th Street. To the south lies the slope of Pilgrim Hill, surveyed by John Quincy Adams Ward's bronze of The Pilgrim set among Prunus serrulata and other specimen trees, notably a globose European Hornbeam and nine species of oak, all set in rolling lawn. The result is a somewhat manicured Park landscape, planned in deferential reference to the estate plantings of the owners of the mansions that once lined this stretch of Fifth Avenue.

Bethesda Fountain is centered by a statue called "the Angel of the Waters," designed by Emma Stebbins in 1868 and unveiled in 1873. This bronze, eight-foot sculpture depicts a female winged angel touching down upon the top of a fountain, where water spouts and cascades into an upper basin and into the surrounding pool. Stebbins was the first woman to receive a public commission for a major work of art in New York City. It was the only statue in the park called for in the original design.

Bow Bridge is one of the most photographed and filmed locations in Central Park and for good reason. Stretching sixty feet over the lake, from Cherry Hill to the Ramble, it is not only one of the most beautiful cast iron bridges in the world, but also offers some of the most breathtaking views of the park around it. Completed in 1862 Bow Bridge was built of cast iron instead of stone, which was used for almost all of the other archways in the park. While this was ostensibly done for economic reasons (eliminating the need for stone cutters and masons) it is impossible now to imagine how it could have been executed in any other manner. From its graceful curves to the subtle ornamentation it is one of the finest examples of the magic that resulted from the combined vision of Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould. It displays an understated, yet powerful aesthetic that provides the perfect transition between the carefully crafted Cherry Hill and the natural jumble of the Ramble.

On December 8th, 1980 John Lennon was shot dead as he entered his home at the Dakota Apartment Building at 72nd St. and Central Park West. A long time resident of New York City, Mr. Lennon had taken many walks with his wife and young son through the friendly confines of Central Park.

A 15 acre pasture, originally designated in 1864 by Olmsted and Vaux as a grazing area for 200 sheep. Although the name has lived on, the sheep vanished in 1934.