Central Park is scenery and often times, the city does try to give us that "old New York" style with horse & carriage rides but there are just some areas of the park I can't stand. I've gotten lost so many times and on days where I came and had time to waste, I subconsciously went wherever it looked "nice." There are areas that it feel like hiking up the Adirondacks--painful. It is full of tourists that take 10 shots of a duck in a pond..really?
Call it scenery (well, I won't contest to that), historical (or that), famous (and that) but if you live or work nearby, it's nothing special and you certainly don't want to have lunch there in the summer heat.