Parque Plaza Sésamo, diversión garantizada

La diversión para chicos y grandes siempre está presente en una gran ciudad como Monterrey. Se trata del Parque Plaza Sésamo, en donde podrás conocer en vivo a los personajes que todos hemos visto en televisión de una forma educativa y divertida.

Personajes como Abelardo, un cotorro emplumado y curioso que resalta por sus movimientos de cabeza graciosos; el famoso Elmo, personaje de color rojo siempre participativo; Lucas, el monstruo come galletas de color azul y ojos desorbitados; Aurora, muñeca de felpa color rosa y cabello rubio a quien le gusta mucho la música; y no podían faltar Beto y Enrique, de colores amarillo y naranja, quienes tienen personalidades contrarias, uno muy bromista y otro más serio, siempre están juntos como los mejores amigos.

Dentro de las instalaciones del parque se encuentra la colorida Villasésamo en donde viven todos los personajes, entonces usualmente ahí los encontrarás y te podrás tomar una que otra foto con ellos. Además, es un lugar con restaurantes, tiendas y teatros.

Internet: <elsouvenir.com> (con adaptaciones).

Looking like fugitives from a factory floor, at least 1,000 55-gallon drums dotted Central Park in the 1980s, marring what may be the greatest invented landscape in America. They were big — not to mention unsightly — but not big enough to contain all the cans, bottles, cups, napkins, newspapers, magazines, paper bags, pizza boxes, hot-dog wrappers and other refuse from 12 million visitors a year. Trash piled up in them and around them. To help keep up with the overflowing cans, rear-loading garbage trucks lumbered back and forth like dinosaurs across lawns and meadows, hills and valleys, paths and walkways. It was a brutish way to treat what was supposed to be a green gem. No wonder the park felt out of control.

Today, Central Park is a far different place. The number of visitors has soared to 42 million visitors annually. They generate 2,000 tons of trash and 58 tons of recyclables a year. Despite all that garbage, it is possible to drive around the sprawling park and count the pieces of stray litter on two hands. In place of 55-gallon drums and 68-gallon plastic bins are neat arrays of handsome, patented, coated-aluminum receptacles with 32-gallon plastic bags inside. The cans are colored black for garbage, gray for bottles and cans, and green for paper and cardboard. Instead of being serviced by ungainly rear-loaders, the receptacles are emptied day and night by workers scooting around in 86 small carts. They take the bags to one of eight pickup areas in the 843-acre park, from which the bags are hauled to transfer stations in the Bronx and Queens.

Internet: <www.nytimes.com> (adapted).

Looking like fugitives from a factory floor, at least 1,000 55-gallon drums dotted Central Park in the 1980s, marring what may be the greatest invented landscape in America. They were big — not to mention unsightly — but not big enough to contain all the cans, bottles, cups, napkins, newspapers, magazines, paper bags, pizza boxes, hot-dog wrappers and other refuse from 12 million visitors a year. Trash piled up in them and around them. To help keep up with the overflowing cans, rear-loading garbage trucks lumbered back and forth like dinosaurs across lawns and meadows, hills and valleys, paths and walkways. It was a brutish way to treat what was supposed to be a green gem. No wonder the park felt out of control.

Today, Central Park is a far different place. The number of visitors has soared to 42 million visitors annually. They generate 2,000 tons of trash and 58 tons of recyclables a year. Despite all that garbage, it is possible to drive around the sprawling park and count the pieces of stray litter on two hands. In place of 55-gallon drums and 68-gallon plastic bins are neat arrays of handsome, patented, coated-aluminum receptacles with 32-gallon plastic bags inside. The cans are colored black for garbage, gray for bottles and cans, and green for paper and cardboard. Instead of being serviced by ungainly rear-loaders, the receptacles are emptied day and night by workers scooting around in 86 small carts. They take the bags to one of eight pickup areas in the 843-acre park, from which the bags are hauled to transfer stations in the Bronx and Queens.

Internet: <www.nytimes.com> (adapted).

Parque Plaza Sésamo, diversión garantizada

La diversión para chicos y grandes siempre está presente en una gran ciudad como Monterrey. Se trata del Parque Plaza Sésamo, en donde podrás conocer en vivo a los personajes que todos hemos visto en televisión de una forma educativa y divertida.

Personajes como Abelardo, un cotorro emplumado y curioso que resalta por sus movimientos de cabeza graciosos; el famoso Elmo, personaje de color rojo siempre participativo; Lucas, el monstruo come galletas de color azul y ojos desorbitados; Aurora, muñeca de felpa color rosa y cabello rubio a quien le gusta mucho la música; y no podían faltar Beto y Enrique, de colores amarillo y naranja, quienes tienen personalidades contrarias, uno muy bromista y otro más serio, siempre están juntos como los mejores amigos.

Dentro de las instalaciones del parque se encuentra la colorida Villasésamo en donde viven todos los personajes, entonces usualmente ahí los encontrarás y te podrás tomar una que otra foto con ellos. Además, es un lugar con restaurantes, tiendas y teatros.

Internet: <elsouvenir.com> (con adaptaciones).

Parque Plaza Sésamo, diversión garantizada

La diversión para chicos y grandes siempre está presente en una gran ciudad como Monterrey. Se trata del Parque Plaza Sésamo, en donde podrás conocer en vivo a los personajes que todos hemos visto en televisión de una forma educativa y divertida.

Personajes como Abelardo, un cotorro emplumado y curioso que resalta por sus movimientos de cabeza graciosos; el famoso Elmo, personaje de color rojo siempre participativo; Lucas, el monstruo come galletas de color azul y ojos desorbitados; Aurora, muñeca de felpa color rosa y cabello rubio a quien le gusta mucho la música; y no podían faltar Beto y Enrique, de colores amarillo y naranja, quienes tienen personalidades contrarias, uno muy bromista y otro más serio, siempre están juntos como los mejores amigos.

Dentro de las instalaciones del parque se encuentra la colorida Villasésamo en donde viven todos los personajes, entonces usualmente ahí los encontrarás y te podrás tomar una que otra foto con ellos. Además, es un lugar con restaurantes, tiendas y teatros.

Internet: <elsouvenir.com> (con adaptaciones).

Looking like fugitives from a factory floor, at least 1,000 55-gallon drums dotted Central Park in the 1980s, marring what may be the greatest invented landscape in America. They were big — not to mention unsightly — but not big enough to contain all the cans, bottles, cups, napkins, newspapers, magazines, paper bags, pizza boxes, hot-dog wrappers and other refuse from 12 million visitors a year. Trash piled up in them and around them. To help keep up with the overflowing cans, rear-loading garbage trucks lumbered back and forth like dinosaurs across lawns and meadows, hills and valleys, paths and walkways. It was a brutish way to treat what was supposed to be a green gem. No wonder the park felt out of control.

Today, Central Park is a far different place. The number of visitors has soared to 42 million visitors annually. They generate 2,000 tons of trash and 58 tons of recyclables a year. Despite all that garbage, it is possible to drive around the sprawling park and count the pieces of stray litter on two hands. In place of 55-gallon drums and 68-gallon plastic bins are neat arrays of handsome, patented, coated-aluminum receptacles with 32-gallon plastic bags inside. The cans are colored black for garbage, gray for bottles and cans, and green for paper and cardboard. Instead of being serviced by ungainly rear-loaders, the receptacles are emptied day and night by workers scooting around in 86 small carts. They take the bags to one of eight pickup areas in the 843-acre park, from which the bags are hauled to transfer stations in the Bronx and Queens.

Internet: <www.nytimes.com> (adapted).

Looking like fugitives from a factory floor, at least 1,000 55-gallon drums dotted Central Park in the 1980s, marring what may be the greatest invented landscape in America. They were big — not to mention unsightly — but not big enough to contain all the cans, bottles, cups, napkins, newspapers, magazines, paper bags, pizza boxes, hot-dog wrappers and other refuse from 12 million visitors a year. Trash piled up in them and around them. To help keep up with the overflowing cans, rear-loading garbage trucks lumbered back and forth like dinosaurs across lawns and meadows, hills and valleys, paths and walkways. It was a brutish way to treat what was supposed to be a green gem. No wonder the park felt out of control.

Today, Central Park is a far different place. The number of visitors has soared to 42 million visitors annually. They generate 2,000 tons of trash and 58 tons of recyclables a year. Despite all that garbage, it is possible to drive around the sprawling park and count the pieces of stray litter on two hands. In place of 55-gallon drums and 68-gallon plastic bins are neat arrays of handsome, patented, coated-aluminum receptacles with 32-gallon plastic bags inside. The cans are colored black for garbage, gray for bottles and cans, and green for paper and cardboard. Instead of being serviced by ungainly rear-loaders, the receptacles are emptied day and night by workers scooting around in 86 small carts. They take the bags to one of eight pickup areas in the 843-acre park, from which the bags are hauled to transfer stations in the Bronx and Queens.

Internet: <www.nytimes.com> (adapted).

Parque Plaza Sésamo, diversión garantizada

La diversión para chicos y grandes siempre está presente en una gran ciudad como Monterrey. Se trata del Parque Plaza Sésamo, en donde podrás conocer en vivo a los personajes que todos hemos visto en televisión de una forma educativa y divertida.

Personajes como Abelardo, un cotorro emplumado y curioso que resalta por sus movimientos de cabeza graciosos; el famoso Elmo, personaje de color rojo siempre participativo; Lucas, el monstruo come galletas de color azul y ojos desorbitados; Aurora, muñeca de felpa color rosa y cabello rubio a quien le gusta mucho la música; y no podían faltar Beto y Enrique, de colores amarillo y naranja, quienes tienen personalidades contrarias, uno muy bromista y otro más serio, siempre están juntos como los mejores amigos.

Dentro de las instalaciones del parque se encuentra la colorida Villasésamo en donde viven todos los personajes, entonces usualmente ahí los encontrarás y te podrás tomar una que otra foto con ellos. Además, es un lugar con restaurantes, tiendas y teatros.

Internet: <elsouvenir.com> (con adaptaciones).