Central Park just scored a winter upgrade—and, for once, it’s happening uptown. The brand-new Gottesman Rink at the Davis Center officially opened this week, giving New Yorkers a brand-new ice playground tucked right into Harlem Meer. If your mental image of the park’s north end still includes the aging Lasker Rink, this is your invitation to move on: the Conservancy has replaced it with something far more ambitious, beautiful and accessible.

The $160 million Davis Center is now the crown jewel of the Conservancy’s decades-long effort to restore the park’s northern landscapes. The rink is set within a green-roofed structure built directly into the slope above the Meer. In summer, this same space is a pool and in spring and fall, it becomes a public green. But right now, it’s a full

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