 What is the significance of the story’s title, “Phone Me in Central Park?”
"Phone Me in Central Park" By JAMES There should be an epitaph for every man, big or little, but a really grand and special one for Loner Charlie. [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Planet Stories Fall 1954. Meanings and answers to his questions slithered out of his reach. He touched buttons by the edge of the bed and the illumination quieted to a soft glow, wrapping her in a radiant halo. New York lay quietly below him. It was the hour of indecision when day has not quite made up its mind to leave and night has not yet attacked in force. On sudden impulse he switched it on, turned the volume up full, and in grim jest left it playing Rachmaninoff's Isle of the Dead on full automatic. Buildings were taller, men were healthier, most of the problems of humanity seemed licked, or nearly so. It was a time of free power, each small unit of population, each section of town operating on perpetual, ever-lasting, automatic atomic piles. Congress was called into special session, as were all of the national governments around the world. Less than a month ago no more than a few thousand people remained in New York. Housed as it was in a huge metallic globe of a building, it contained computers which kept exact account of every human on earth. Once a year the Bureau issued The Index, an exact accounting of Earth's four billion inhabitants. The average person had little necessity to do so since the Bureau information service would answer questions free of charge at any time. And again at the age of 10 each child returned to the Bureau for a recheck. On these screens could be graphed the population of any and every part of the globe. An illuminated counter immediately above it would give the numerical strength of the area being sampled while the screen would show population density by individual pinpoints of light that merged to form brightness patterns. "I'll try New York first," he said to himself, knowing that he was a coward, afraid to check the whole world from the start. Charles activated the switches that would flash a schematic map of New York on the screen. And one of them, a beautiful woman, had invited him up to her apartment, not because she liked him, but because.... "Why, it was just yesterday (or was it the day before?) that ten of us, at least, met here to check the figures. The western hemisphere, including islands.
 Central Park is where Charlie builds his cave/grave, writes his epitaph, and eventually dies.
 Central Park is where the mass animals deaths were first noticed.  Central Park is where the aliens first attack.  Central Park is where Charlie digs a grave for the beautiful woman, writes her epitaph, and declares himself the last man on Earth.  Central Park is where Charlie builds his cave/grave, writes his epitaph, and eventually dies.