dnainfo.com, reports on the five boat landings that sit on the banks of Central Park's lake have been restored to their original 19th-century designs after decades of decay. Over the course of a year, the Central Park Conservancy and the city's Parks Department reconstructed the boat landings along The Lake using historic photos as their guide.
The landings were originally built in 1860, then rebuilt in the 1970s, but much of the original details were lost and the landings deteriorated over time, according to Doug Blonsky, the Central Park Conservancy's CEO and President.
To celebrate the finished project, city officials took an electric boat out on the water for the first time in several decades on Tuesday. The boat was made by Elco (Electric Launch Company), which created the boats for the Chicago's World Fair around the turn of the century, and had two boats on the Central Park's lake in 1902 and for subsequent decades, Blonsky said. To read the article in its entirety, as well as seeing the photos and video, click here.