Cherry
Hill
Cherry Hill over looks the Lake where Central Park started in 1858. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux took a swamp surrounded by bald hills and turned it into a Lake where up to 100,000 people a day ice skated in the 1860s. Little kids, a forerunner to Central Park’s aggressive pedicab drivers, would tie your shoes for a small fee.
People now ice skate on the two official ice skating rinks. The Park places ladders around the edge of the Lake during the winter so that anyone foolish enough to walk on the ice and fall through can be rescued.
