Diana Ross Playground

[2] The recording artist Diana Ross, who lived across the street in The Beresford, gave two free concerts in Central Park on July 21 and 22, 1983 (attendance estimated to be between 400,000 and 800,000 people), and pledged to rebuild West 81st Street playground in Central Park with proceeds from the television rights.

However, when a thunderstorm during the first (and only scheduled) concert destroyed all of its memorabilia/merchandise, the performance did not prove profitable, and Ross used personal resources to fund the project.

[5] Open daily from 7:30am to dusk, the space is maintained by the Central Park Conservancy's Playground Partners program.

To the north of the playground, the ground rises in a steep slope[6] to Summit Rock, the highest point in Central Park.

Graff, in relating the story, observed "The legend quite naturally arose that the water of the spring contained some magically concentrated nutrients".