Comparison Between New York Central Park and Subway

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Comparison Between New York Central Park and Subway

Central Park is the first landscape in the US urban centers. The wealthy New Yorkers conceived the idea to construct the landscape in the early 1850s, and it took ten years to build it for ten million US dollars (Waxman, 016). The debate for the park's location took about two years until 1857 when Fredrick Law Olmsted won the park design contest, and hence the construction of the park began.  Central Park was built in Manhattan, about a mile from 5^th Avenue to 8^th avenue and 2.5 miles from fifty Ninth Street to one hundred and sixth street. The central park's construction led to the eviction of around 1,600 people who were living in the swampy and rocky terrain of the city to create room for the part construction. 

The construction of the first New York subway began in 1870 and ran a span of 36years to its completion in 1904. The subway transitways commence at the City Hall Manhattan and extend north to Washington and Bronx (Malcolm, 2006). Northward from City Hall, the subway stretches eastward to Grand Central Terminal on the forty-second street, westward it turn to Times Square and toward the north of Harlem.  William Barclay Parsons designed the structure of the New York subway. Also, he proposed the o use of cut-and-cover tunneling, 3^rd-rail electric power, and a fourth-track expressway, which anticipated the future growth of New York City.

Personally, William Barclay Parsons had a very challenging exercise during the New York City subway construction, in which he was the appointed designer and engineer. In his remark during the launching of the project after completion, William said he was sure whether he could win the race since he received many objections from most people. Parsons claimed that some of his allies treated his project as a visionary, which was an unrealistic and unachievable dream. Others confronted him and spoke pity that he was wasting time since they considered the construction of the subway project as a mere dream that cannot come true. On the contrary, Fredrick Law Olmsted, the designer, and the engineer during the construction of the New York central park, never faced any objection from people. Most of the people in New York they willing supported him to see the success of his project.

The construction of the New York City Park did not commence immediately after Fredrick won the tender as the project designer and engineer. The delay of starting the project immediately after commissioning was caused by the fact that the site on which the part was to be erected was inhabited by a population of 1,600 people, several schools, and churches (Fu & Zhao, 2010). To begin the park's construction, such people and institutions had to be evicted, and owners compensated for the destruction of their properties to create ample room for the park project. Besides, engineers were faced with challenges of developing the area since the...