NYC Places to Go: The Central Park Snowscape

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Category: Things To Do

Published on Friday, 04 December 2009 22:09

Written by Marion DS Dreyfus

I got off the bus at 57th Street and 6th Avenue and walked up through the Central Park snowscape.

Faerie time.

Little kids with their brilliantly colored toboggans or inverted large plastic frisbees in cherry, lime green, turquoise and violet flopped down the tiniest slopes, shrilly screaming with delight. People were running the track, as per usual, enclosed in their huffing and timing.

Many teams of families and friends were building snowmen, and I saw at least three snow caves, which we always advise people to build in the chilly North, if they are caught in a snowstorm or are lost in the woods and there is available snow.
 
I watched four energetic bunches of people cavorting on tamped-down slopes; some of the adults were sitting on the plastic garbage-can covers so they looked behind their tots.

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