According to a new report released this month by the Central Park Conservancy, most park visitors prefer to be passive rather than active. Around 85% of all activity in New York’s Central Park is passive.
The Central Park Conservancy calls the survey the most “systematic effort” to record and analyze visitors since 1873, when gatekeepers meticulously recorded every person entering and leaving the Park.
According to their findings, the number of visitors has roughly tripled in the past 40 years. Today the Park attracts 37 to 38 million visits annually – but those trips are made by only eight to nine million people, including 1.8 million who traipse through on their commutes.
Local visitors are mainly Manhattanites; only three million of the 26 million New Yorkers visiting the park each year come from the city’s other four boroughs. And overwhelmingly they prefer to come alone.
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