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Do not fill this in! ===Sources=== {{refbegin|30em}} * {{cite report|url=http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4277documents_manhattan_central_park_1857-58.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4277documents_manhattan_central_park_1857-58.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|title=1858 Central Park Commissioners Annual Report|date=1858|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|ref={{harvid|New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|1858}}}} * {{cite report|url=http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4053annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1859.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4053annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1859.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|title=1859 Central Park Commissioners Annual Report|date=1859|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|ref={{harvid|New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|1859}}}} * {{cite report|url=http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4051annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1861.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4051annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1861.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|title=1861 Central Park Commissioners Annual Report|date=1861|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|ref={{harvid|New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|1861}}}} * {{cite report|url=http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4085annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1863.pdf|title=1863 Central Park Commissioners Annual Report|date=1863|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|ref={{harvid|New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|1863}}|access-date=October 18, 2017|archive-date=February 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206212057/http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4085annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1863.pdf}} * {{cite report|url=http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4060annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1864.pdf|title=1864 Central Park Commissioners Annual Report|date=1864|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|ref={{harvid|New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|1864}}|access-date=October 18, 2017|archive-date=February 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211233129/http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/4060annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1864.pdf}} * {{cite report|url=http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/3996annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1865.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/3996annual_report_manhattan_central_park_1865.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|title=1865 Central Park Commissioners Annual Report|date=1865|publisher=New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|ref={{harvid|New York City Department of Parks and Recreation|1865}}}} * {{cite book|last=Barnard|first=Edward Sibley|year=2002|title=New York City Trees: A Field Guide for the Metropolitan Area|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|isbn=978-0-231-12835-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/newyorkcitytrees00barn}} * {{cite book|last=Berman|first=John S.|year=2003|title=Central Park|publisher=Barnes and Noble Books|series=Portraits of America|isbn=978-0-7607-3886-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jPeWTsgpxE0C}} * {{cite book|last=Brocklebank|first=Ralph T.|date=2003|title=Birkenhead: An Illustrated History |publisher=Breedon Books|isbn=1-85983-350-0}} * {{cite book|last=Buckley|first=P. 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Norton & Company|Norton]]|isbn=0-393-02531-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/centralpark1857100kink}} * {{cite book|title=Landscape Management and Restoration Program for the Woodlands of Central Park|publisher=Andropogon Associates, Ltd|date=September 30, 1989|via=Issuu|url=https://issuu.com/andropogon/docs/central_park_woodlands|ref={{harvid|Andropogon Associates|1989}}}} * {{cite book|last=McCully|first=Betsy|year=2006|title=City at the Water's Edge: A Natural History of New York|publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]]|isbn=978-0-8135-4010-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zBBIU42GOvgC}} * {{cite report|first1=Charles|last2=Merguerian|first2=Mickey|date=2004|title=Geology of Central Park β From Rocks to Ice|last1=Merguerian|publisher=[[Stony Brook University]] (SUNY) Department of Geosciences|url=https://www.geo.sunysb.edu/lig/Conferences/abstracts-04/merguerian/Merguerians2004.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.geo.sunysb.edu/lig/Conferences/abstracts-04/merguerian/Merguerians2004.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live}} * {{cite book|last=Meyers|first=Stephen L.|year=2005|title=Manhattan's Lost Streetcars|publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing|Arcadia]]|isbn=978-0-7385-3884-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jTj1tGfHu4oC}} * {{cite book|last=Morris|first=Lloyd R.|year=1996|title=Incredible New York: High Life and Low Life from 1850 to 1950|publisher=[[Syracuse University Press]]|isbn=978-0-8156-0334-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ldnLaIrgJGEC&pg=PA95}} * {{cite book|last=Olmsted|first=Frederick Law|author-link=Frederick Law Olmsted|year=1852|title=Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England|publisher=George E. 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