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East 72nd Street Playground

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East 72nd Street Playground is a play area located in New York City's Central Park, inside the park at East 72st Street and Fifth Avenue.

Description

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The playground is an adventure playground located on the south end of the park. It includes tire swings, traditional swings, a large pyramid, and a fortress-like concrete water feature.[1] Connected to the pyramid is a slide and a tunnel. Adjacent to this pyramid is a set of small slides for younger children.

The water feature is multi-tiered: it has three distinct areas, each with its own button activation. On the lowest tier is a triangular concrete pillar with three sprayers near the top, one on each side. On the other side of a tunnel is an area with four wall jets; the water from this flows under the tunnel and drains into the first area. The top layer includes 10 floor jets which drain down a ramp to the first and second areas.

The playground is maintained by the Central Park Conservancy.

History

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The playground was built in 1936.[2] It was rebuilt in 1970 in the adventure style with the support of the Louis and Bessie Adler Foundation.[3] This design was by Richard Dattner, a designer who designed multiple other playgrounds in Central Park. The design included a similar pyramid, as well as treehouses, small climbing poles for toddlers, larger ones for older children, and a net connecting the large climbing poles to the treehouses and slides.[4] Additionally, there was a water feature at the north end of the playground where water originated from a central spray, then collected and traveled around a hexagonal channel before returning to the original pool to drain. This renovation kept the trees and drainage system from when the playground was built.

The playground was renovated again in 2001 by the Central Park Conservancy.[3] This renovation included new swings for toddlers, new sand safety surfacing, a reconstructed treehouse, as well as a new water feature which was accessible for those with disabilities.[5] These changes were supposedly also done to comply with national standards for playground safety and in response to feedback.[2]

East 72nd street playground was reconstructed once more with work being completed in December 2015.[2] In this renovation, many changes were made to the playground to enhance the value of play and integrate the park better into the landscape while preserving the original adventure playground design by Richard Dattner. The sand below all of the playground equipment was replaced with rubber safety surfacing. The wooden play structure at the south end of the playground was removed, and in its place, the swing set and toddler slides were installed. The net climber was replaced with a pole climber reminiscent of the structure from the 1970 design, the pyramid was slightly updated, and the tire swings were moved and modified. In addition to these changes, the concrete pole in the water feature was moved, the spray jets at the top of this were changed, and the floor jets were added to the top level. A section of the sand play area was raised off of the ground using a sand table, increasing accessibility.[6] The fence around the play area was replaced by a low seat wall with benches. A lighter fence was added around this to separate the play area from the outside.

In 2016, shortly after the playground was renovated, Central Park visitors voted that this playground was the best in the Park.[7]

References

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  1. ↑ "East 72nd Street Playground". Central Park Conservancy. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 "East 72nd Street Playground Reconstruction". Central Park Conservancy. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  3. 1 2 "2001 report" (PDF). Central Park Conservancy. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  4. ↑ Dattner, Richard (1974). Design for play (PDF). Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. p. 103. ISBN 9780262540230. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  5. ↑ "East 72nd St Playground". Time Out New York Kids. 16 October 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  6. ↑ "Rare Adventure Style Playground Re-Opens in Central Park". Observer. 16 October 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  7. ↑ "East 72nd St. Playground Voted Best Play Space in Central Park". DNAinfo New York. Archived from the original on 26 December 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2024.

Rudin Family Playground

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The playground's water area and wisteria-covered trellis
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Rudin Family Playground is located in New York City's Central Park at West 96th Street and Central Park West.

Description

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The playground is located near the north end of Central park. It includes a central water feature, a wisteria-covered trellis, a sandbox, tire swings, traditional swings, and game tables for playing chess and checkers.[1] There are also three play structures on the opposite side of the playground from the entrance; these incorporate ramps, slides, ladders, bars, and other play elements.

Rudin Family Playground was built in 1935 and 1936 as one of the park's perimeter playgrounds, then rebuilt in 1992.[2]

This playground is maintained by the Central Park Conservancy. The Conservancy plans to renovate it in the near future.[3]

References

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  1. ↑ "Rudin Family Playground". Central Park Conservancy. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  2. ↑ "Rudin Family Playground". Plan For Play. Central Park Conservancy. Archived from the original on 16 January 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  3. ↑ "Plan for Play: A Framework for Rebuilding and Managing Central Park's…". Central Park Conservancy. Retrieved 1 March 2024.


Abraham and Joseph Spector Playground

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Abraham and Joseph Spector Playground is a play area located in New York City's Central Park, inside the park at East 85st Street and Central Park West, and on the site of Seneca Village.

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The playground is located near the middle of the park. It is mainly comprised of a large open area of sand. Additionally, it has swings, a mushroom-style water feature, a defunct second water area, and two play structures including slides, bridges, and platforms.[1]

Many elements of this playground have been removed or stopped functioning.[2] A bridge and a wooden play structure are among the removed elements, and the aforementioned second water area contained a water table with a spout and two small pipes set into the ground which sprayed water.

The playground is maintained by the Central Park Conservancy.

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Abraham and Joseph Spector Playground was built in 1935 and 1936 as one of the park's perimeter playgrounds.[3] It was then renovated by the Central Park Conservancy in 1975.[4] This renovation included replacing the previous equipment with equipment from the company TimberForm. Tire swings, tree houses, a pyramid with slides, and climbing equipment was added, as well as the currently existing large water area.[3]

By 1992, the timber equipment needed to be replaced, and the Conservancy renovated the playground once more, adding a second water area, a bridge with a slide, treehouses, sandboxes, and other play equipment.[3] The existing trees and large water area were kept.[2]

After over 30 years, the equipment has once again deteriorated and much of it has been removed.[5] The Central Park Conservancy plans to renovate the playground again in the summer of 2024 and rename it to West 85th Street Playground. This renovation will move the playground off of known footprints of houses in Seneca Village, replace the existing play equipment, update the water feature, integrate the playground better into the park, improve accessibility, increase the play value, and add an adjacent picnic area.[6]

References

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  1. ↑ "Abraham and Joseph Spector Playground". Central Park Conservancy. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  2. 1 2 "The Reconstruction of West 85th Street Playground" (PDF). NYC. Central Park Conservancy. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 "Spector Playground". Plan For Play. Central Park Conservancy. Archived from the original on 27 November 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  4. ↑ Williams, Lena (19 November 1976). "Children Romp at Dedication Of a Playground in Central Park". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  5. ↑ "Restoration of West 85th Street Playground". Central Park Conservancy.
  6. ↑ "MCB7 Full Board Meeting | December 5, 2023". YouTube. Manhattan CBseven. 6 December 2023. Retrieved 1 March 2024.

Sky Whirl

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Sky Whirl
Sky Whirl (Gurnee)
California's Great America
StatusRemoved
Opening dateMarch 21, 1976 (1976-03-21)
Closing date1997
Replaced byInvertigo
Six Flags Great America
StatusRemoved
Opening dateMay 29, 1976 (1976-05-29)
Closing date2000
Replaced byDéjà Vu
Ride statistics
Attraction typeTriple Ferris wheel
ManufacturerWaagner-Biro
DesignerIntamin
ModelTree Triple Wheel
Height105 ft (32 m)
Site area2,290 m2 (24,600 sq ft)
Vehicle typeEnclosed cage
Vehicles36 total (12 per wheel)
Riders per vehicle6

Sky Whirl was the name of two amusement rides which featured triple Ferris wheels. Both debuted in 1976 at the California's Great America (in Santa Clara, California) and Six Flags Great America (in Gurnee, Illinois) amusement parks. The ride in Santa Clara closed in 1997, and the ride in Gurnee closed in 2000. Two additional triple Ferris wheels were later built for the Seibu-en and Lotte World parks in Japan (operating between 1985 and 2004) and South Korea (1989–97), respectively. All four rides were manufactured by Waagner-Biro and brokered by Intamin.[1][2]

Design

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Each wheel had 12 passenger cars

The ride resembled a huge tree topped with three arms; the arms rotated as a unit on an axis canted from vertical. Each arm was tipped with a rotating wheel, or "spider", and each spider carried 12 passenger cages. Due to the off-vertical axis, two wheels spun in the air in a near-vertical plane while the third was on the ground stationary in a horizontal plane, loading and unloading passengers from all the cars on that wheel simultaneously.[1][3][4][5]

Intamin marketed the ride as the "Tree Triple Wheel" and advertised a capacity of 2,000 customers per hour.[6] The ride had a peak height of 110 feet (34 m)[7] and required a circular footprint 54 metres (177 ft) in diameter.[6]

Sky Whirl was developed from the earlier Giant Wheel, a double wheel design that Intamin had first installed at Hersheypark in 1973. Intamin's Giant Wheel was in turn inspired by an earlier double wheel design patented in 1966[8] to address the slow loading of conventional Ferris wheel designs. That first double wheel debuted with Astroworld as the Astrowheel in 1968.[9] The Sky Whirl design was commissioned by Marriott for both of its Great America theme parks. Because these parks (both Great America parks, Hersheypark, and Astroworld) were all designed by the same firm, R. Duell and Associates, some common design elements were carried through each park, including the double/triple-wheel designs.

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Both rides debuted with the opening of the Great America parks in 1976.[1] At the time the theme park in Santa Clara opened on March 21, 1976, it was billed as having the world's first triple Ferris wheel.[10][11] The Gurnee park opened on May 29.[12]

The Santa Clara ride, which appeared in the 1994 movie Beverly Hills Cop III as "The Spider",[13] was later renamed Triple Wheel before it closed in 1997.[1] At Santa Clara, Sky Whirl was replaced by the Invertigo roller coaster.[14][15] The identical Gurnee ride closed in 2000[1][16] and was replaced by Déjà Vu for the 2001 season.[17]

Two other triple wheels were produced for Asian clients: Seibu-en (Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan; operated 1985–2004) and Lotte World (Seoul, South Korea; 1989–97).[2][6] According to Harry Michelson, because relatively few double and triple wheels were built, production was discontinued sometime in the 1990s and parts became scarce, making maintenance of these relatively complicated rides difficult and expensive.[18]


Temporary source list

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https://www.newspapers.com/image/840557360/ - World's first triple ferris wheel https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/645442113/ - Located in Great Midwest Livestock Exposition https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/563703593/ https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1141027406/ - view https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/241859875/ - boring according to kids from Christ Child Academy https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/402419698/ - 36 gondolas https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/38003925/ - one of 2 most popular rides https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/537859774/ - tame although ingenious https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/703613080/ - two wheels always spinning https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/312625224/ - review? https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/383387753/ - description https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/645185636/ - Swiss engineers, gondolas manufactured in Austria, can see Lake Michigan/Sears tower/Chicago loop from top, "highlight", highest point at Great America https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/383835911/ - tame, boring in comparison to other rides https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/542713738/ - appeals to all ages https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1163150104/ - similarity to double wheel at Kings Island https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/596969844/ - 12 cylindrical cages per wheel https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/279295561/ - park's warehouse supervisor felt that park lost charm with loss of rides


Replacement https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/170504962/ - short, boring https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/169693602/ - Jim Wintrode - regret for removing

After https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/182409618/ - memories


References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Sky Whirl". Great America Parks. 24 March 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Waagner-Biro Double and Triple Wheels". Amusement Parkives. February 8, 2018. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
  3. ↑ Peterson, Craig (October 18, 2000). "Six Flags Gets Ok For New Roller Coaster". Chicago Tribune.
  4. ↑ Wilson, Steven W. (2017). Six Flags Great America. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-4671-1702-9. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  5. ↑ Petroski, Henry (1997). "The Ferris Wheel". Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering. New York, New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-307-77320-3. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  6. 1 2 3 "Intamin Product Catalog". Intamin Leisure and Transportation World-Wide. 23 December 2007. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  7. ↑ "GURNEE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS". October 25, 2000. Archived from the original on March 12, 2006.
  8. ↑ US grant 3243184A, Thomas Glen Robinson & Ralph G Robinson, "Planetary amusement ride", issued March 29, 1966
  9. ↑ "The City: The Disneyland Effect". Time. June 14, 1968. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  10. ↑ Macdonald, Craig (May 15, 1976). "Great America Park Has Something For Everyone". The Desert Sun. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  11. ↑ "Marriott Opens New $50 Million Fun Park". The Desert Sun. UPI. March 22, 1976. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  12. ↑ "She's New Visit U.S.A. Ambassador". Santa Cruz Sentinel. August 8, 1976. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  13. ↑ Mannes, George (June 10, 1994). "Eddie Murphy's dangerous ride". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 21 October 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  14. ↑ "Throwback Thursday–Sky Whirl and Triple Play". Coaster Kings. October 30, 2013. Archived from the original on 23 October 2019. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  15. ↑ Invertigo at the Roller Coaster DataBase
  16. ↑ "Marriott's Great America". Theme Park Timelines. Archived from the original on 2015-01-18.
  17. ↑ Déjà Vu at the Roller Coaster DataBase
  18. ↑ Michelson, Harry (April 14, 2016). "Giant Wheel | 1973-2004". The Amusement Parkives [blog]. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
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