Central Park: Enter through the Vanderbilt Gate

Nature in New York City

Fresh from a visit to the Museum of the City of New York, the Brawny Sherpa and a Youthful Adventurer and I cross Fifth Avenue to admire the Vanderbilt Gate at 105 Street. Although the Youthful Adventurer and I lived in the city for a number of years, there are still many parts of Central Park we haven’t visited, and this is one of them.

The gate, as its name implies, was donated by the Vanderbilt family to the park after a life of service at the Cornelius Vanderbilt II (of the New York Central Railroad Vanderbilts) mansion down at 58 Street. The house was demolished in 1926, and the gates were given to the park a little over a decade later. They had been forged in France.

That’s a lot of history of New York titans in a single entrance to the park. Just beyond the gate is Conservatory Garden.

Vanderbilt Gate, Fifth Avenue at 105 Street, New York, N.Y.

—Lori Tripoli

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