Originally Posted by
Spaghetti
I miss the old, pre-commercial Central Park. You could sit on a bench and listen to birds instead of vendors hawking tourist tat, and you could stroll along without being solicited every few minutes by "tour guide" pedicabs. I can't bear the park on weekends any more.
I think you just need to go a little farther uptown. Most of the time I spend in Central Park is in the 80s on the west side on weekends, and it's quite pleasant.