Feist is performing for free in a park as part of the Good Morning America concert series. I had previously believed this event to be in Central Park. This is not the case. The show is at Bryant Park. Nonetheless, I can't help but preserve the Central Park-centricism by maintaining the original information below (since I find the park's history fascinating), even though the free Feist show is at BRYANT PARK, not Central Park. Bryant Park is great too. For real. Go check it out. A park is a park is a park.
An excerpt from wikipedia about Central Park:
...New York City's need for a great public park was voiced by the poet and editor of the then-Evening Post (now the New York Post), William Cullen Bryant, and by the first American landscape architect, Andrew Jackson Downing, who began to publicize the city's need for a public park in 1844. A stylish place for open-air driving, like the Bois de Boulogne in Paris or London's Hyde Park, was felt to be needed by many influential New Yorkers, and in 1853 the New York legislature designated a 700 acre (2.8 km²) area from 59th to 106th Streets for the creation of the park, to a cost of more than US$5 million for the land alone.
Good Morning America Summer Concert Series
presents Feist at Bryant Park on Friday July 25, 2008.
Hit the link for all of the details.