Central Park's Strawberry Fields Designated A Quiet Zone
by Wendy, blog.mydot.com
May 21st 2011
New York City has set up new quiet zones in Central Park that ban singing and strumming. As you might imagine this hasn’t gone over well with the street musicians in the city. About 20 of them gathered at Bethesda Fountain with cellos and guitars to sing Ava Maria to protest the ban. There are eight zones set up including the Bethesda Fountain and Strawberry Fields, a memorial for John Lennon.
“Strawberry Fields is a memory of an icon,” said lawyer Norman Siegel. “Imagine what John Lennon would have felt if he knew this?”
Geoffrey Croft, president of the NYC Park Advocates said, “This is not Madison Square Garden, this is Bach, and Beethoven being sung from angels.”
Signs went up the end of May warning performers of the new quiet zones. Performers who violate it are being ticketed and one has been arrested.
The Central Park Conservancy says that the quiet zones were put in place due to residents complaints. The combined areas only make up 33 acres of the park with the 850 acres remaining open for playing.
Retired teacher Isabel Berkowitz said, “The less noise the better,” as she sat on a bench in Strawberry Fields reading.
“The city so noisy, this is a refuge to me. If someone was playing Beatles music and it was good, I might stay.”
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