Harlem Meer

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Harlem Meer is a picturesque man-made lake and surrounding landscape located at the northeast corner of Central Park in New York City.


Statements (49)
Predicate Object
instanceOf body of water
lake
man-made lake
adjacentTo 110th Street
East Drive (Central Park)
Fifth Avenue
Lenox Avenue/Malcolm X Boulevard
coordinateLocation 40.796°N 73.951°W
country United States
designedBy Calvert Vaux
Frederick Law Olmsted
hasEcosystemType urban pond ecosystem
hasNameInLanguage Harlem Meer@en
Meer de Harlem@es (informal)
hasNearbyAttraction Conservatory Garden
Lasker Rink and Pool (historical, replaced by Harlem Meer Center)
hasNearbyFacility Harlem Meer Center (redevelopment project)
hasPart Dana Discovery Center
lawns
playgrounds nearby
shoreline paths
wooded areas
hasUse catch-and-release fishing
ice skating (seasonal)
model boating
recreation
wildlife habitat
inception late 19th century
locatedAtStreetAddress 110th Street and Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
locatedInOrNextToBodyOfWater Harlem Creek (historic)
Hudson River watershed
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Borough of Manhattan
New York (state)
New York County NERFINISHED
locatedInTheNeighborhood East Harlem
Harlem
location Central Park
Manhattan
New York City
maintainedBy Central Park Conservancy
namedAfter Harlem
ownedBy City of New York
partOf Central Park
Central Park water system
New York City park system
publicAccess yes
topographicFeature picturesque landscape
touristAttraction true
waterType freshwater

Referenced by (5)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Harlem Meer ("Harlem Meer@en")
hasNameInLanguage
Harlem Meer ("Harlem Meer Center (redevelopment project)")
hasNearbyFacility
Central Park
hasPart
Lasker Rink
locatedNear
North Meadow
neighboringFeature

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