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The spot became so notorious that it also drew attention from the police: In some years, officers patrolling the park, in Upper Manhattan, would issue public-sex summonses about once a week. A similar pattern holds true across New York City. Last year, through late December, they wrote six.

Not only are summonses down, but fewer New Yorkers are calling to lodge complaints about lewd acts in public. Inthere were complaints of lewd acts; last year, there wereaccording to the city. The decline has been so precipitous that it raises obvious questions: Are the police telling frisky parkgoers simply to move along, or have New Yorkers lost some of their lust?

Is it the Police Department that has changed, or is it us? The answer may be a combination of both: City parks are more crowded, with visitors traipsing through even some out-of-the-way spaces; and police officers are also increasingly looking to solve neighborhood problems without resorting to handcuffs or tickets.

The police still target the most active locations and make arrests, yet those related to sex in public have also been on the downswing. The department recorded slightly more than misdemeanor public lewdness arrests last year, down from nearly in Reported rapes have increased, but those in parks are rare.

The areas with zero park-sex tickets recorded over 10 years were some with little to no park space to speak of — Midtown Manhattan; Jackson Heights in Queens; Canarsie in Brooklyn — and others like the central Bronx neighborhoods of East Tremont and Belmont, where there are parks but, apparently, no sex seen by officers.

In Fort Tryon, city officials met with residents in about the public-sex displays, and came up with a preventive strategy: A chain-link fence was installed to block access to the popular hidden spot; nearby, overgrown plantings cover another area that had drawn complaints.

A nine-year resident of the building, known as Fifth on the Park, said as recently as last year he had seen displays of public sex across the street from his 13th-floor window. A police spokesman said that a complaint about sex in Marcus Garvey Park in did result in several arrests.

But the trend is toward fewer illicit incidents — possibly aided by ongoing construction at the top of the mountain. Other former hot spots have also seen less activity. For decades, a secluded wooded area of Central Park known as the Ramble, and another one in Prospect Park referred to as the Vale of Cashmere, were prime spots for cruising.

Clashes between birders and cruisers in the Ramble were frequent over decades, and, inhad severe consequences. As a result, more people visit, making the Park more secure. That is not to say that public sex is no longer appealing for some. An informal survey of online forums yielded many examples of those talking up the virtues of illicit dalliances — often in gleeful words not suitable for print.

Look, some guys like it. Your family is not going to come wandering by. Even in winter, a recent visit to Marcus Garvey Park turned up evidence of public sex fort tryon park gay cruising as condoms on the ground and in bushes.