Alberto Arroyo the Mayor of Central Park (2019)

Alberto Arroyo said he was the first person to jog around the Central Park Reservoir. Mr. Arroyo ran with movie stars, office workers, tycoons, homeless people and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who six days before she died in 1994 came by to thank him for a get-well card. Filmmaker John Mullen became a friend and followed Alberto with his camera from 2000 to 2004. Alberto Arroyo died on March 25, 2010, a month after his 94th birthday. Despite a series of strokes during his last year, he still visited the Reservoir when he could, wheeled from nursing home to Park by many volunteer "citizens." The running track was dedicated to him in April 2010.