Bethesda Terrace Central park

Back to Central Park for this post where I share with you some shots of the Bethesda Terrace area, Starting with what is called the lower passage

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Now if I wasnt to lazy to carry a tripod with me intot he city most days, this would be a good spot to use it, but even with 3200 ISO this is a shot I am fairly happy with.
Bethesda Terrace is located at the end of the mall midway in the park around 72nd Street.
An interesting thing I didn't know till preparing this post and looking up info about this area, is that the tiles, on the ceiling in the lower passage shown in the first shot which is my favorite feature of this area. here is the info I found on Wikipedia

The Minton encaustic tiles of the ceiling of the arcade between the flanking stairs, designed by Mould,[12] were removed in the 1980s renovation because the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission deemed the tiles too costly to restore. Instead, the Commission approved the commission of a ceiling mural in its place.[13] Mayor Ed Koch declared in June 1987 that the tiles would be restored. Nevertheless, the tiles sat in storage for more than 20 years until the Conservancy received a private donation for their restoration. The Conservancy embarked on a $7 million restoration effort to return the Minton tiles in 2004. A team of seven conservation technicians cleaned and repaired more than 14,000 original tiles by hand. Only three panels of replica tiles were needed to replace those that had been damaged beyond repair. For those recreations, the Conservancy decided to commission Maw and Company, Minton's successor in Stoke-on-Trent, England. The tiles were reinstalled in 2007

This next shot is turning around from the first shot looking over the lower terrace with the Fountain in front of us

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This next shot is showing the two levels of Bethesda Terrace and was completed in 1864

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