I Hate NYC #26 Central Park

One of the places that everyone who either lives in or visits NYC tends to go to is Central Park. 

They go there because it is a beautifully landscaped park that is conveniently located in the center of Manhattan with “lots of open space” for everyone to enjoy - and this is exactly what is wrong with Central Park.

See, you usually can’t just go there and relax in some peace and quiet.  Central Park is a park that is more alive that the streets themselves - it’s too crowded with people to be a useful park to relax in. 

In order to relax inside the park you need to barrel through angry speed demon bicyclists and runners. 

After that you’ll only be able to find a spot that is always within earshot and eyesight of someone else since all of the lawn space is nearly completely covered with blankets full of people on even the worst semi nice day.

After that you have all of the face painters, magicians and street performers who draw crowds to stand around and look stupid.

Plus you get hoards of bank/advertising agents/Broadway actors/you name its with their softball teams looking as though they trying out for the Mets.

You also get the high society types who will stroll through the park discussing it’s history and the genus of the flowers while secretly hating on each other.

You’ll have to contend with people who are using the park as an easy cut through to get to or from the East side - YUCK!

Lastly, the tourists!  Oh the tourists! 

The tourists are always lost inside of the park and yet still want to photograph everything unnecessarily.  What’s even worse than a regular lost tourist is happening across a gaggle of Polish tourists who know where they are at the statue of a “famous” Polish war hero riding a horse. 

Them seeing that statue gives them the same feeling as if you or I were to win the lottery - it’s sick!