Central Park – Sheep Meadow

Love this area of the park. We were visiting NYC and just was going to walk by it however found a park bench and starting talking, then people watching, a baseball game was taking place and we got right into it. People in the park are friendly, Catching some rays while lying on blankets on grass in the sun. Can’t wait to go again!

I am so in love with this part of the park. This is really great, came totally in relax mode. By a hole day in the city took the subway to the Central Park and relaxed for like 1 or 2 hours. It’s really been fantastic. So many place to sit and relax. Been here 5 times already this week!

This is a great place to grab some lunch and sit on one of the many park benches here. It was a cool summer day in New York which made for a great location to sit and relax.
There is a lot of green and small birds that hang out in the park. There is a zoo located south of this park area.
Overall: it’s cool to check out.

Movie night in the park? Yes, please!
This is advice just for movie night… get there early. It was packed by the time the movie started! Definitely bring a blanket to put on the grass, as it will be damp. Bring some food and drink, if so inclined. Sit back and enjoy the show.
(Couldn’t tell if there were a lot of bugs around or not because it was dark. That would have definitely changed the score lol).
Looking forward to just chillin’ here on a non-​movie night. Will update the review then… hopefully before summer ends!

What’s there not to like? For New Yorkers and tourists alike, this is a superb place to come sit down or lay down and escape from the concrete jungle for a while. Great views of some of the NY skyline.
Awesome for people watching, picnics, frisbee throwing and of course sun bathing!

AH-​MAZING!!! Love the lush green grass, the amazing atmosphere and all of the cool stuff going on in this park! It is a beautiful oasis in the middle of the hustle and bustle of the city. I have been here a couple times for acro jams and love every minute!

Central Park is a magical place that always hold a special place in my heart !! I love it!

Had a picnic here for a friend’s birthday, we found a nice spot underneath a tree, away from the hot summer sun, but come early as the spots go fast in the summer. There’s a lot of activities going on, so be careful not to walk into a baseball game or into someone else’s picnic, as that will be quite embarrassing. There’s some rude people here, but that’s them, not the park itself, so be prepared.

Can’t get enough of Central Park. Sheep Meadow is one of the best areas to to spend some time with family or friends. Great lawn and specious area. Perfect for picnics, games and large enough not to feel like you are on top of everyone else!

So crowded! Whenever it’s nice outside or there’s a holiday, people flock to this huge area in the middle of the City. It’s ingenious engineering. Around this green open space, you can see skyscrapers. Such a great place! Lots of doggies, so watch for the poo.

A great open space dominated by Central Park South’s skyscrapers. Better if visited on weekdays, as it can get overcrowded. Still, it’s a great place to relax and people watching.

Is it called Sheep Meadow because whenever the weather is nice out the creatures of NYC flock to this place like sheep? Seriously, I think that must be why it is named that.
Even if you are as antisocial as antisocialites come it is impossible to not speak to somebody new here. Whether you want to join in a game of frisbee with some randos or you need to shout «What the fuck is wrong with you?» at someone who missed their catch and caused you to get nailed with a football while trying to nap, you are guaranteed some sort of social interaction. The acroyoga people are really friendly if that is your thing as well. Or you can just stare at them too. Whatever.
Charge up your speakers, stop by Whole Foods in Colombus Circle for drinks and snacks, lather up with some sunscreen or baby oil if you are daring, prepare a sack of balls, and call up the bros and the hoes and BOOM!, perfect day is in order presuming the weather Gods cooperate.
No shoes allowed. Please bring cute puppies so I can play. Thanks.

sheep meadow is the place to go for young New Yorkers on a nice weekend day. No matter how many times I go there, it always impresses me how beautiful sheep meadow is between the green grass, pretty trees, and cool buildings surrounding the park. Come with a towel, sunscreen, frisbee or football or soccer, and a bunch of friends.

It’s Central Park in New York City… It’s big, beautiful with plenty of space. I just love coming here when I have no place to go and can wonder for hours. There are places you can find for solitude as well as places that are over-​run with tourists and locals just looking to enjoy the park.
The Great Lawn, Band Shell, Rink, Rocks, Trees, and paths… When your looking for a place to just enjoy your surroundings come to the park. (Even if you live on Long Island…)
You may want to bring a camera…

This is a large open (but no shade) grassy field to lie-​sit and take a break from wherever you were going. The people watching is fun.
It’s for the locals? as saw more of them than visitors.

Perfect, peaceful place to spend some time on a sunny November afternoon. We sat on the rocks and had a picnic lunch. Highly recommended for a break from the city.

What a lovely park in the middle of the Empire State!
Sheep Meadow in particular is one of my favorite spots within the park because it’s just an open field where you can lay down and relax with a good book.
If I’m not there, I’m usually by the benches after work people-​watching, which is always a fun thing to do in the most popular/​biggest park in NYC!

This isn’t a review for Sheep’s Meadow during peak times – no Saturday afternoon sittings here. This is a review of the Meadow and its smaller adjuncts during weekdays.
Bring a blanket, sit here as a long as you want, you’ll see a lot of empty space and greenery, and more birds than people. Green green green, empty empty empty, birds birds birds, people.
Sure there are exercisers and folks picnicking with their dogs. There are moms and strollers. There are even people mysteriously asleep, so soundly you could probably pick them up and move them without waking them. Somehow all their sounds don’t travel. It’s just all very… chill. And yes, Le Pain Quotidien is a half-​minute walk away, ready for you with its overhard, enamel-​shattering bread and its Arnold Palmers which I admit grudgingly are just the right sort of sweet – barely sweet – but it still feels like you’re not in the city. You can sit there, among the dogs and strollers and people who are maybe kind of close but feel and sound distant, and you can let your eyes stray up to the peaks of the trees, swaying with different rhythms in different directions, mapping the shape of the breeze that moves them. (Too much?)
Tidbits:
* I prefer the littler field to the north of Sheep Meadow, between the Meadow and Terrace Drive, and mostly when I say I go to «Sheep Meadow», I mean this field.
* As of Jun 2014, there’s a new family of falcons in Sheep Meadow, in the southeast of the field. Falcons! Birds of prey!

The legendary lawn, in the legendary park, in the legendary city… yeah, pretty much. Arguably the biggest patch of green in NYC or her surrounding boroughs, perfect for lounging, throwing a Frisbee if it’s not too packed (good luck with that), picnicking with friends, or even just solo zen-​finding sessions.
Not a lick of shade as you come to the center, with views of the cityscapes peaking through the trees. One of the best places to relax after a two lap jogging/​cycling circuit around the central park loop (other than on the fountain steps by the Columbus Circle park entrance).

Da waren wir also, im berühmten Central Park. Ein Erlebnis war es irgendwie schon, mal «da gewesen zu sein».
Beeindruckend, wie sich die grüné Lunge New Yorks wie selbstverständlich ins Stadtbild integriert, finde ich.

There must be something clinically wrong with you if a large sea of bright green grass on a beautiful, sunny spring or summer day doesn’t make you smile.
In the concrete jungle that is the NY of C, this is an oasis in the middle of Central Park that brings together all types of New Yorkers (and tourists) — big and small, young and old, mean and nice, fat and slender… ok, by now you get the idea.
I’ve had many a picnic here with friends and it’s great for outdoor boozing in paper cups, Poland spring bottles — just *do you* and don’t get caught ;-).
Catch some sun and attract nature’s vitamin D, people watch, play with pets, watch other people play with their pets, eat cheese… it’s a people’s paradise on the greenest oasis that Central Park has to offer.
5 stars from a born and bred Manhattanite (who is not displaced in Queens and settles with Astoria Park from time to time, just kidding — I don’t settle, it’s a faaaaaantastic park with an amazing view of a bridge, but it’s no Central Park) :D.

Ein MUSS für jeden NY Kurztrip ! auch wenns schwer fällt, Sonntag morgens raus aus den Federn und rein in den Central Park! aus den Häuserschluchten in den Park … ein tolles Erlebnis!