stackyFACTSBefore robotic lawnmowers, city planners just dropped a flock of livestock in the middle of Manhattan. The Sheep Meadow was home to pedigreed sheep from the 1860s until 1934, when they were finally moved out because impoverished locals kept trying to eat the landscaping crew during the Great Depression.
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