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Belvedere Castle

Also known as: New York Meteorological Observatory

A Victorian folly in the heart of Manhattan: Belvedere Castle has stood on Central Park second-highest point since 1869. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed it as pure ornamentation - and since 1919, New York official weather station has recorded its readings from here.

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