Pictures of the Day: Central Park in May

Is there anything nicer than Central Park in May?
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Happy Mother's Day

Flowers courtesy of Central Park's Shakespeare Garden, Sunday, May 11, 2014

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Interesting...

This sounds neat...

CHRISTINE BARANSKI, MATT DAMON, & GLORIA REUBEN JOIN THE FREE PUBLIC FORUM! The Public Theater and The Aspen Institute Arts Program PresentA Free Public Forum Event WHAT ARE WE WORTH? SHAKESPEARE, MONEY, AND MORALS Christine Baranski, Matt Damon, and Gloria Reuben join the previously announced Alan Alda,  Marsha Stephanie Blake, Raúl Esparza, Hamish Linklater, Jesse L. Martin, Lily Rabe, and Vanessa Redgrave for readings from Shakespeare's plays. Plus a town-hall discussion led by renowned political philosopher, Harvard professor, and best-selling author Michael Sandel Monday, June 17 at 8pm The Delacorte Theater Are there some things money can't buy? Do we have obligations to each other as citizens? In the spirit of free exchange epitomized by more than 50 years of The Public’s Shakespeare in the Park, join in an evening of theatre and public debate. This one-night-only Public Forum will include Shakespeare readings about money and justice as well as a lively town-hall conversation with the audience conducted by Harvard professor and best-selling author Michael Sandel about the way the language of money has been taking over our lives – the subject of his recent book, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. This Public Forum event is presented in partnership with the Aspen Institute Arts Program. Click here for more information on this exciting free event! TICKETS ARE FREE! Free Public Forum tickets will be distributed, two per person, at 12pm on June 17 at the Delacorte Theater and via the Virtual Ticketing drawing atwww.shakespeareinthepark.org. Reserved seats are also available by becoming a Public Forum Supporter with a tax-deductible donation of $75*. For information and to donate, call 212-967-7555.

Early Spring in Central Park

No one serves up spring quite like Central Park. A couple of scenes from this past weekend--you know, before winter returned. Talk about a guest that doesn't get the hint that it's time to leave! Jeez! Fingers crossed that we've seen the last of the really cold weather and can now look forward to some normal spring weather.

73-Year-Old Woman Raped in Central Park

What a horror. A 73-year-old bird watcher was raped in the Central Park Ramble in broad daylight just before noon today. She had taken photos of her attacker a week ago. They are included in the link below. Let's hope they catch this individual as soon as possible.
Woman, 73, Raped in Central Park in Broad Daylight The victim told the police she had a confrontation with her attacker about a week and half ago, when she took a photograph of him masturbating in the park.

For All You Bird Watchers Out There...

For all you bird-watching fans in Central Park's Ramble, here's something for you.

Each year, more than a million birds make a migratory pit stop in New York City’s Central Park – and they don’t go unnoticed. The revealing documentary BIRDERS: THE CENTRAL PARK EFFECT chronicles one year in the life of the extraordinary array of wild birds that grace Manhattan’s celebrated patch of green, and the equally colorful New Yorkers who schedule their lives around the rhythms of migration, when itdebuts MONDAY, JULY 16 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO. The debut of the Oscar®-nominated documentary short “The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom,” which shows how nature can be a rejuvenating as well as destructive force, follows at 10:00 p.m.

Back to the Grind

I hope you had a relaxing Memorial Day Weekend. Wasn't the weather just great, especially Saturday and Sunday? Think of it this way, now only four days left to the weekend...

Here's a shot of Central Park from Sunday:

Spring Ahead

It definitely felt like the end of Winter and the beginning of Spring at Central Park this weekend...

Summer News !

Ahhh, some summertime news to tide us over til the warmer weather...

Picks Revealed for Free Summer Central Park Plays