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It is known to most people the park is “closed” certain hours however the Central Park Police and the NYPD have never attempted to enforce closure times.
So its uncommon and strange this would: a) Be handed out by a NYPD officer not someone from Central Park Police and b) Why issue it to a jogger? There’s a three dozen homeless and drug addicts in the brambles daily/nightly.
Via Runners World:
Peter Shankman’s morning 10-miler took longer than expected today when he was stopped a couple miles in and given a citation for running in Central Park before the park officially opened.
Shankman, a networking guru who has given TED talks, was running with a friend as part of his training for an upcoming Ironman. The duo had started their run a little after 4 a.m. “because that was my only time to get the run in today,” Shankman told Runner’s World Newswire. They were running up the East Side when, Shankman said, a police car pulled alongside them, and an officer asked, “Can you stop running?” After telling Shankman the park was closed until 6 a.m., the officer gave Shankman a summons, timed 4:27 a.m., that cites “1 AM
HT Matt Dawson