Manhattan’s Central Park is 843 acres in area, equivalent to 1.3 square miles (or 3.4 square kilometers). It is New York City’s fifth largest park by area.
The rectangular urban park measures 2.5 miles (or 4 kilometers) from top to bottom and 0.5 miles (or 0.8 kilometers) across.
It stretches for 51 city blocks from 59th Street to Central Park North (110th Street) and covers 3 blocks wide between Central Park West (8th Avenue) and 5th Avenue.
