Cedar Hill (Central Park)
Cedar Hill is an east-facing slope in Central Park, Manhattan, New York City. The hill is home to many red cedars that form a line of clumps on its crest. Low outcroppings of rock in the mowed turf were grooved and scarred by the last glacial period.
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The hill is used for reading and sunbathing, as well as sledding in winter, and is a preferred area for dog owners. The south slope is called by joggers "Cat Hill" for its statue, 'Still Hunt', of a large stalking cat.[1] Eddie Coyle, a sportswriter for the New York Daily News, in his weekly running columns in the late 1970s, often called it "cat" Hill and the name became popular.[2]
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The frontage of Fifth Avenue apartment houses provides a backdrop to the east. At its southern perimeter stands the Glade Arch designed by Calvert Vaux, which originally provided carriage traffic with a conduit to Fifth Avenue. Hidden deep beneath the north end of Cedar Hill runs New York City Water Tunnel No. 3 with its valve chamber, completed in 1993, due to carry some of the city's drinking water in 2020.
The slope has been featured prominently in a number of films such as The Owl and the Pussycat (1970) and Enchanted (2007).
References
- Central Park by Mindy Solkin, RoadRunner.com
- NYC Parks [@nycparks] (July 19, 2018). "Our Commissioner @mitchell_silver is running the parks and sharing photos! People training for the @NYCmarathon can look out for @CentralParkNYC 's "Cat Hill" & the sculpture known as Still Hunt. It's a 1/4 mile run from the Loeb Boathouse to the top of the hill. #IRunTheParks" (Tweet) – via Twitter.