Concerts in Central Park are usually held on the Great Lawn, a 1.5 mile oval directly behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art: ... read more
The reservoir was commissioned in 1862 as a receiving and distribution reservoir for Manhattan for water from the Croton Aqueduct. There were two reservoirs but the other one was filled in and is now the Great Lawn. read more
It is located between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side, roughly bounded by Fifth Avenue on the east, Central Park West (Eighth Avenue) on the west, Central Park South (59th Street) on the south, and Central Park North (110th Street) on the north. read more
That meant a new, bigger reservoir was needed, so Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the architects of Central Park, designed and built a billion gallon behemoth directly north of the old one: And that is what today is known as the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir. read more