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Sheep Meadow

Central Park’s Sheep Meadow served as home to a couple hundred Southdown sheep for seventy years, until 1934, when Parks Commissioner Robert Moses had the sheep transferred to Prospect Park in Brooklyn. (Their shepherd was assigned to the lion house in the Central Park Zoo.)

The rural Victorian Gothic structure which had been the sheep’s pen was transformed into Tavern on the Green, host to countless events and film shoots (and the occasional high school prom.)

Nowadays, the expanse of lawn is popular with picnickers, sunbathers, and bare-torsoed frisbee players.

There are 3 Comments ... Sheep Meadow

Qsoz
June 18, 2007

Was that last shot done with the red filter on?

vipnyc
June 19, 2007

Fiddling with the color accent setting. I think I’ve finally figured out how to select the color. We’ll see.

Qsoz
June 19, 2007

So seriously, next time, (I’ll be using a football metaphor here) when I give you a nice lead block and create an opening, hit the hole and keep on running!

Go for it ...