Quote Originally Posted by rjlj View Post
How can you say that the park was visited by "mostly local folks with money." What a stupid assumption to make for an area of 8 million people
Central Park is surrounded by folks with money. This was also true in the 70's.

I find it very odd that you find it "stupid" that the richest neighborhood in the country would have parks utilized, at least in part, by rich people.

Last I checked, parks tend to be utilized by people in close proximity to those parks. I don't think it's reasonable to assume that hordes of New Jerseyans or whomever are the primary users of Central Park.

The larger point is that Belle Isle is different. It has always had a different constituency.