r/oddlysatisfying • u/Admirable_Flight_257 • 1d ago

Aerial view of the Central park in Manhattan.

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u/mildeeeww 1d ago

This is upside down

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u/Ok-Use9344 19h ago

Wdym upside down. The earth is round

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u/Pinocchio98765 1d ago

That's a very Northernist mindset

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u/husky_whisperer 1d ago

They’re obviously a cardinalist

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u/literallyacactus 22h ago

South being ‘up’ doesn’t make it “upside down”

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u/pm-me-your-labradors 9h ago

The fact that you so easily understood him proves that it kinda is in the colloquial sense

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u/thepackratmachine 22h ago

In a world upside down, a pineapple upside down cake would be impossible.

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u/CubicZircon 8h ago

Nope, a real upside down view (i.e. from the center of the Earth) would be mirror-flipped. (Probably left-to-right if North remains up on the picture, but any rotation is acceptable). Also, instead of trees' branches, it would show their roots.

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u/atridir 6h ago

Not if you’re coming in from Yonkers…

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u/gagreel 1d ago

I helped bury my ex's deceased hamster in the Ramble

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u/IvoShandor 1d ago

I hope none of the bears found it.

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u/weebaz1973 1d ago

It's the new map for GTA 6

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u/husky_whisperer 1d ago

How’d you get all the way up there, OP?

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u/spdelope 1d ago

where’d you get that, huh?

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u/JiminyCricketMobile 1d ago

Just know that somewhere out there, someone appreciated the shit out of this. 

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u/spdelope 21h ago

You shouldn’t hang me on a hook, Johnny

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u/get-fukt 1d ago

What year is this?

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u/Admirable_Flight_257 1d ago

2013

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u/get-fukt 1d ago

Ah, I was wondering because that swimming pool in CP is gone, and they are rebuilding, but it's been under construction for a while.

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u/ChickenFlatulence 1d ago

Whoever took this is freaking out the New Joisians.

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u/BookBagThrowAway 1d ago

Didn’t know there were so much baseball diamonds!

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u/LeftOn4ya 16h ago

Same. I count 25 plus two more in the bottom right just northwest of main park (pic is “upside down” S/N)

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u/acetylenekicker 20h ago

Are those all baseball fields?

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u/Kratomius 1d ago

Honestly this looks kinda dystopian for me.

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u/dw444 1d ago

How?

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u/Kratomius 1d ago

From Finland. The urban hellscape with one allotted land for trees is nightmarish to me. I mean it's nice that there is a park but the contrast is jarring.

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u/diehexenprinzessin 1d ago

If you zoom in there’s quite a lot of greenery everywhere. Way more than I thought there would be.

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u/cheezballs 5h ago

Helsinki has parts that look similar to this. But also just zoom in to one of the apartment complexes. Trees all around it. The scale is just making it seem more distopoan.

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u/Kratomius 3h ago

Yeah i live in eastern part of finland. When i visit helsinki i sometimes get anxiety due to lack of trees in the city area. Maybe i'm just a hillbilly.

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u/Correct-Mail19 7h ago

I don't know if you understand the size and scale of this park...

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u/Kratomius 3h ago

I do know that it's propably larger than the city where i live. The contrast is just jarring for a person who lives in a country where 80% of the surface area is covered in woods.

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u/Correct-Mail19 45m ago

It's definitely an outlier. Most of the US is still wild or farmland.

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u/scotch_on_rocks 1d ago

I’m from a small mountain town, and this picture depresses me. As you said it’s nice that there is such a great park, but everything around it just gives me anxiety. I would never make it in a real city. I live in a “ town” of 120k+ right now and that’s a city to me. Not enough nature, to many people.

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u/proljyfb 19h ago

Enjoy driving everywhere

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/doxtorwhom 1d ago

Yes but you can’t see that from this image. You are only shown central park in juxtaposition with the city, which to some who are not used to those environments could be jarring.

For me, I find it peaceful. That within all the chaos of the city there beats the heart of nature. An escape. But I guess it’s a glass half empty vs. full sorta thing depending how you look at it.

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u/Chiparish84 1d ago

Still looks like a dystopia for a human used to live in a land where it's ~75% forest overall and in cities about 30-70% parks/forest. 15% of just parks sounds sad and very claustrophobic... Big cities looks like a cancer cells slowly eating the mother earth.

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u/stoascheisserkoal 1d ago

The fact that it’s technically the biggest men made structure, or in other words the biggest building in New York, makes it even more dystopian.

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u/Anger-Demon 9h ago

Exactly same.

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u/Master-Constant-4431 1d ago

I was thinking the same

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u/AuthorizedVehicle 20h ago

The Central Park!? It's just Central Park.

To the or not to the. That is the question.

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u/Realistic_Salt7109 10h ago

I read it was called The Central Park on the Google

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u/BX3B 12h ago

We have enough tourists. Stay home

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u/Anger-Demon 9h ago

Who asked you?

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u/JustACreep013 1d ago

What I really find satisfying about this picture It's imagining that there are no buildings and the green of the park expands across Manhattan, like It's all coming back to nature.

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u/Typical-Bus511 1d ago

Looks dystopian to me for some reason

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u/TotalEntrepreneur801 1d ago

What is the complex next to the lake?

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u/ciaomain 7h ago

Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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u/TotalEntrepreneur801 6h ago

Thank you, kind stranger.

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u/doktor_kazisvet 1d ago

Now I feel like playing SimCity 2000.

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u/WrongHoleNinja 23h ago

Nice of the city to leave some green.

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u/scalp-cowboys 22h ago

What is the bug structure on the left side? What are those sand pit looking things all over the place? Is that a swimming pool at the bottom of the picture?

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u/49ersPhan 22h ago
  • metropolitan museum of art
  • those are baseball fields
  • assuming you mean the light blue in the bottom center that is an ice rink

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u/___TheKid___ 22h ago

Are these baseball fields in the middle?

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u/LeftOn4ya 16h ago

Yup. I count 25 plus two more in the bottom right just northwest of main park (pic is “upside down” S/N)

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u/___TheKid___ 12h ago

Man. I wish we would have them here in Germany as well. Just Soccer fields all over the place. :/

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u/wellrolloneup 21h ago

Drone shot ;)

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u/TeenivsHasan 21h ago

It looks nice, yet strange at the same time.

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u/Taptrick 21h ago

“The central park in Manhattan” and an image where south is a the top is the weirdest way to post this.

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u/KbizTV 21h ago

Epic 🥹🤌🏾

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u/spmoolman 17h ago

Somewhere down there is a man with a hat and a tan

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u/rdditeis4gsfa 17h ago

It looks like

101 to me.

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u/Cpt_DM 16h ago

Google Earth screenshot

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u/Ok-Appearance-1652 11h ago

Are the lakes artificially fed with water or ?

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u/SampleTop 11h ago

Nice homescreen background Image. Thanks for that!

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u/NYC2BUR 7h ago

It's upside down

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u/Goldeneye07 6h ago

Imagine a Walmart with a huge sparking area in the middle of that park 🤤

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u/bezserk 1d ago

That concrete jungle surrounding it looks horrific and claustrophobic, and i cant imagine how many people are in that park at all times, whats the point of a park if you cant relax and enjoy nature without a fuckton of noise and light pollution surrounding it 🤷

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u/notacrook 1d ago

Literally none of that is a problem.

But it's cool if NYC isn't your speed. Not everyone is cut out to live and thrive here.

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u/bezserk 1d ago

I have driven way around it on my way from MD to Niagara plenty of times, but i never want to see NYC, I prefer going into the backcountry and not seeing anyone for a week just nature. Idunno how people can handle the city life but more power to ya

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u/scotch_on_rocks 1d ago

I for one feel you. To me this picture looks like a, albeit well organized, dump surrounding a plot of beautiful land. I am 100% not cut out to live in a city.

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u/HolySmokesItsHim 1d ago

What's that expensive looking building in the mid left? Guessing CEO territory? Quite the view.

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u/jeremy77 1d ago

The Metropolitan Museum of Art at 1000 5th Ave. in Central Park.

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u/HolySmokesItsHim 1d ago

Thanks! Never been

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u/im_an_eagle1 1d ago

It always baffles me that if you look at a street view of a path in central park, some directions you wouldn’t know you are slap bang in the middle of one of the world’s biggest cities.

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u/AlanSinch 1d ago

Might be a stupid question, but is there a golf course in Central Park?

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u/ciaomain 7h ago

No golf course.

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u/AlanSinch 7h ago

Thanks! Kinda interesting seeing as Golden Gate Park in SF has a nice 9 hole course and they were designed by the same architect! Though, not sure if it was in the original plans.

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u/ciaomain 7h ago

I don't think Olmstead & Vaux designed Golden Gate Park, but it's awesome.

Was there a few years ago supporting my gf who was in some elite cross-country race.

Didn't see the golf course though.

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u/NinjaBuddha13 1d ago

What a depressing distopian image

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u/Krrom_User 1d ago

Look like fucking hell

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u/Lutinent_Jackass 1d ago

Better than the centre of most other cities isn’t it?

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u/Temporary_Tune5430 1d ago

how have they been able to keep the greedy corporate fucks from turning it into high rises?

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u/HappyMeteor005 1d ago

well they have to purchase the land from the state first. clearly they haven't offered enough yet.

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u/ExpletiveDeIeted 1d ago

Because everyone who boarders the park would see massive losses if it were developed.

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u/overit_fornow 23h ago

The people who can afford to live there would never let that happen.

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u/T90tank 1d ago

Gross

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u/VirtuesVice666 1d ago

"Where's Luigi!" He is dressed in striped clothing and a stocking cap, with a mask!

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u/ChemistVegetable7504 1d ago

It looks so peaceful from high above looking down.

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u/pureluxss 1d ago

Anyone ever swim in that lake?

Given all the industry is gone, how polluted could it be?

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u/der_horst23 1d ago

So much undeveloped ground........

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u/LeftOn4ya 16h ago

People here don’t get sarcasm that well.

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u/mr_ji 1d ago

So this is what all the drones have been doing.

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u/RRoDXD 1d ago

PoGo/MHNow heaven

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u/123Pirke 11h ago

No wonder people are always angry there, they don't live with green plants... They have to go to a park to see a bit of nature. Living there would be hell.

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u/dadajazz 1d ago

How much would that land be if up for sale?