Harlem Meer
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Central Park designers Olmsted and Vaux named this man-made water body “the Meer” - Dutch for “lake.” It was a nod to the 17th Century European settlers who first inhabited the village of Harlem. The northern end of the park conceived it around the Harlem Meer, which linked to a loch and a ravine, which was constructed through the north woods. All of this was a sequence of nature that approximated the Adirondacks or some rural stretch of the Hudson Valley.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Meer,_Central_Park
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Coordinates: 40°47'46"N 73°57'7"W
- riverdale canal 15 km
- Little Neck Bay 15 km
- Harlem River 17 km
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge 17 km
- Harlem River 19 km
- Oradell Reservoir 22 km
- Hempstead Lake State Park 27 km
- Cold Spring Harbor 40 km
- Lake Denmark 53 km
- Farrington Lake 60 km
- East (Spanish) Harlem 0.8 km
- Harlem (Manhattan, NY) 1.5 km
- Central Park 1.9 km
- Manhattan 2.3 km
- Upper East Side 2.3 km
- Upper West Side 2.3 km
- Hell Gate 2.4 km
- Astoria 4 km
- Western Queens 8.1 km
- Queens 18 km