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Brian Lairn on WNYC Studios. And now we will end today's show with a look at new developments

in our city's most iconic park. As temperatures rise and spring flowers settle in and burst

out, surely many of you are looking forward to a stroll in Central Park this weekend.

If you're anywhere around that area, if you usually enter the park, say, south of 96th Street, the Central Park Conservancy

has a new attraction opening on Friday tomorrow that you'll want to head uptown for,

and of course a lot of you live in that uptown area.

So joining me now to introduce you to the brand new Davis Center at the Harlem

Mir, and maybe to discuss some other new initiatives in the pipeline, if we have time,

in Central Park is Betsy Smith, president and CEO of the Central Park Conservancy.

Betsy, thanks so much for coming on. Welcome to WNYC today. Thank you very much, Brian.

And listeners, in addition to whatever you want to say or ask about the Harlem Mere part of the park,

we'll throw it open in this segment for your underrated activities or spots in Central Park.

Share them with other people. Don't keep them to yourselves. Do you have a secret

birding spot or a place that stays cool, even on the hottest of days, whatever, as well as

your questions and stories for our guest, 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433-9692. So Betsy, tell us about the Davis Center.

Well, it's very, very exciting, Brian. I mean, I would say that this is one of the most exciting

projects that we've seen in Central Park in really many years. And, you know, the Central Park

Conservancy has been around since 1980.

We were formed to, in effect, rescue the park that had been abandoned by the city during its

bankruptcy.

And in that time, we have invested a tremendous amount of time and expertise in bringing

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