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Mr. Benepe said that was not true, and that the precise counts show that the old numbers simply were in the realm of fantasy. “The truth is that those historical crowds, you couldn’t accommodate that many people if you crammed them into every open space in Central Park — Great Lawn, North Meadow, Sheep Meadow,” he said.

New York Times setting the attendance record straight for the big Central Park concerts (Great Lawn: A Bubble of History Bursts).

Somehow my copy of Simon & Garfunkel’s Concert in Central Park feels less special now.

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