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This is what Central Park looked like a few years ago (cdn.imgchest.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by loleni@sh.itjust.works to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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There was no room to exercise. Just dangerous. The noise from cars alone was stressful.

Now, New Yorkers would NEVER allow this to be reversed.

But back then, many people actually opposed banning cars from Central Park 🤦

It took decades of activism to kick these cars out of the park.

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[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So, where was the road in the vid? Bottom left?

[–] cazssiew@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

It's somewhere in the top right of the pic, around the western edge of the lake (hidden by trees, the body of water visible in the pic is the reservoir): https://maps.app.goo.gl/pEYWTiKPz7XgUJ9Q6?g_st=ac

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I dunno, I didn't watch the video lol.

The park is huge by the way. It might not come across as well in an aerial photo, but it's pretty massive, especially for something in the middle of a city as large as NYC.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you zoom in on the bottom left, you see little dots. Like ants. Those are people lol insane