Jerry Seinfeld and Whoopi Goldberg are now giving free tours of Central Park.
The comics, along with more than 30 other New York-based celebrities, share bits of history, trivia and personal remembrances about the park’s many landmarks on a new audio tour visitors can access with their cellphones.
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Starting today, signs posted throughout the park will provide a phone number and a code visitors can dial to hear the likes of Alec Baldwin, Kevin Bacon and Isabella Rossellini ramble on about the Ramble, the Great Lawn and the Reservoir.
“I am honored to welcome you to Strawberry Fields,” Yoko Ono says, explaining the origins of the meditative monument to husband John Lennon’s life and work.
Like Yoko, the celebrity guides often have a personal connection to their particular park landmark.
“This is where I learned to skate,” Whoopi says of Wollman Rink. “Yeah — me. On skates!”
The tours are geared both to tourists and New Yorkers wishing to learn more about the park without looking like tourists, Central Park Conservancy President Doug Blonsky said.
“People have a whole different respect for things when they know the history of it,” he said.
The messages, which average two to three minutes long, also highlight the work of the conservancy, and a message afterward suggests people support the group’s efforts.
“People love the park, but some people can take it for granted,” Blonsky said.
Regis Philbin, who provides a history of Grand Army Plaza, said the tours cover details even he was clueless about.
“Most New Yorkers don’t know much about it — I didn’t know much about it, either,” Philbin told The Post.
Penn Jillette, of the magic act Penn & Teller, explains how Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux turned a murky swamp into the park’s Lake, and how the conservancy used fibers made from coconuts to restore the shoreline to its original condition.
At the Naumburg Bandshell, “Late Show” band leader Paul Shaffer describes how originally “the very strait-laced commissioners would not have approved” anything other than classical music. “It took until the 1920s for parkgoers to enjoy what today we know of as popular music.”