anybody ever hunt central park?

[kory1]

might not be the right place to post.
Excuse the noob.

 

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[Skelly607]

I have never hunted it but if I'am not mistaken I have seen videos on Youtube of people hunting it.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

If you mean THE Central Park in NYC, then you can forget about it! NYC has strict guidelines about where metal detecting is permitted, and you will get fined at any of the parks if you are caught detecting without a permit. They are very heavily patrolled, so my advice would be DON'T.

Here is a link you may find helpful: http://www.nycgovparks.org/permits/metal_detectors.html

Even if it was permissible, it is doubtful you would find anything much older than the 1860's. Although Central Park is a natural looking park it is all the result of massive human engineering.

The building of Central Park was one of nineteenth-century New York's most massive public works projects. Some 20,000 workers--Yankee engineers, Irish laborers, German gardeners, and native-born stonecutters--reshaped the site's topography to create the pastoral landscape. After blasting out rocky ridges with more gunpowder than was later fired at the Battle of Gettysburg, workers moved nearly 3 million cubic yards of soil and planted more than 270,000 trees and shrubs. The city also built the curvilinear reservoir immediately north of an existing rectangular receiving reservoir. The park first opened for public use in the winter of 1859 when thousands of New Yorkers skated on lakes constructed on the site of former swamps. By 1865, the park received more than seven million visitors a year. The city's wealthiest citizens turned out daily for elaborate late-afternoon carriage parades. Indeed, in the park's first decade more than half of its visitors arrived in carriages, costly vehicles that fewer than five percent of the city's residents could afford to own. Middle-class New Yorkers also flocked to the park for winter skating and summer concerts on Saturday afternoons. Stringent rules governing park use--for example, a ban on group picnics--discouraged many German and Irish New Yorkers from visiting the park in its first decade. Small tradesmen were not allowed to use their commercial wagons for family drives in the park, and only school boys with a note from their principal could play ball on the meadows. New Yorkers repeatedly contested these rules, however, and in the last third of the century the park opened up to more democratic use. In the 1880s, working-class New Yorkers successfully campaigned for concerts on Sunday, their only day of rest. Park commissioners gradually permitted other attractions, from the Carousel and goat rides to tennis on the lawns and bicycling on the drives. The Zoo, first given permanent quarters in 1871, quickly became the park's most popular feature.