Central Park Reservoir
Southern Pump House
This building structure is located at the South East
corner of the Central Park Reservoir, and houses the pumps which
control the flow of water into and out of the reservoir. The building
is at the top of some steps leading up from East Drive near 86th
Street (Metropolitan Museum). Some of our workouts use this landmark
as a starting or stopping point.
The greater significance of this building is that
this is the locale for the climactic scene of that great running
movie, Marathon Man, starring Laurence Olivier and
Dustin Hoffmann. If you don't know this movie, you should
rent a copy and learn it well. I mean, really well. Otherwise, you
will never be able to appreciate the dentist jokes that our Coach
tells, and failure to laugh at the right moments will ostracize
you.
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