Great Lawn and Turtle Pond
The Great Lawn and Turtle Pond are two connected features of Central Park in Manhattan, New York City, United States. The lawn and pond are located on the site of a former reservoir for the Croton Aqueduct system which was infilled during the early 20th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Plain
- Description: connected features of New York City’s Central Park
- Also known as: “Great Lawn” and “Turtle Pond”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Central Park and American Museum of Natural History.
Central Park
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A vast green swath of open space in the heart of Manhattan, Central Park is a district in its own right, neatly separating the Upper East Side from the Upper West Side, stretching from Midtown at the southern end to Harlem at the north.
American Museum of Natural History
Museum
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The American Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 21 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Museum
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Upper West Side and Upper East Side.
Upper West Side
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The Upper West Side covers a large area in upper Manhattan bounded by 59th Street on the south, 125th Street on the north, the Hudson River on the west, and Central Park and Morningside Park on the east.
Upper East Side
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The Upper East Side of Manhattan is one of the city's wealthiest districts. Spanning the stretch of island between 59th Street to 96th Street east of Central Park, the neighborhoods of Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Carnegie Hill are full of luxurious townhouses and apartment buildings on some of the most affluent addresses in New York.
Lenox Hill
Neighborhood
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Lenox Hill is a neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It forms the lower section of the Upper East Side, east of Park Avenue in the 60s and 70s.
Great Lawn and Turtle Pond
- Categories: lawn and landform
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Persian—“Great Lawn and Turtle Pond” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Great Lawn and Turtle Pond”
- Catalan: “Great Lawn”
- Catalan: “Turtle Pond”
- Cebuano: “Great Lawn”
- Chinese: “大草坪和龜池”
- French: “Great Lawn”
- Hebrew: “המדשאה הגדולה ובריכת הצבים בסנטרל פארק”
- Hebrew: “המדשאה הגדולה ובריכת צבים”
- Japanese: “グレート・ローンとタートル・ポンド”
- Japanese: “グレート・ローンとタートル池”
- Korean: “그레이트 론”
- Korean: “터틀 폰드”
- Persian: “گریت لاون”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Turtle Pond and Belvedere Castle.
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