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around the Park. Part Five briefly summarizes the Park’s impact on New York City’s tax and
fee revenues. Finally, Park Six offers some comments on why the Park will continue in the
years ahead to be an essential contributor to the vitality of the City’s economy.
Completion of this report would not have been possible without the active cooperation and
assistance of many people, both at the Central Park Conservancy and elsewhere. Appleseed
would particularly like to thank Douglas Blonsky and Terri Coppersmith at the Central
Park Conservancy, Conservancy board member Michael Grobstein, and Jack Linn, Assistant
Commissioner/Senior Counselor at the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
We are also grateful to Conservancy staff who provided us with data and information about
the Conservancy, its programs and its partners. Thanks to Lane Addonizio, Jill Bristow, Terri
Carta, Anna Colletti, Mary Cregg, April Croft, Sara Cedar Miller, Kathryn Ortiz, Norma
Soto, Rachel Stephenson, and Douglas Weller.
Finally, this report could not have been completed without the assistance of some of the
groups who work in and around Central Park, its neighbors and friends. Thanks to Faustina
Osei-Owusu of New York City Parks & Recreation, Kate McIntyre and Sarah Gillman at the
Wildlife Conservation Society, Patrick McNamara from New York Road Runners, Cheryl
Huber of New Yorkers for Parks, Russ Charlton of New York Reservoir Dogs, Douglas
Hegley of New York Harriers, Dean McCann of the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre, and
Broadcasting, Tim Sheehan of CB Richard Ellis, Stacie Mishler of the Parkinson’s Unity
Walk, John Korff of the New York City Triathlon, David Rivel of City Parks Foundation,
Barbara Livenstein of the Museum of the City of New York, Rachel Flynn of Oasis Children’s
Services, Joanne Hunt of Harbor Science and Arts Charter School, Drew Higginbotham
of Young Women’s Leadership High School, Sam Miller and Lenny Linder at the New
York City Department of Finance, and Richard Schwartz and Ken Frydman of Source
Communications.
All photographs in this report are courtesy of Sara Cedar Miller/Central Park Conservancy.