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New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...

parks. Three entities manage parks within New York City, each with its own responsibilities: * Federal – US

National Park Service The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages all national parks, most national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational propertie ...

(NPS) - both open-space and historic properties * State –

New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYS OPRHP) is a state agency within the New York State Executive Department Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law § 3.03. "The office of parks, recreation a ...

(NYSP) * Municipal –

New York City Department of Parks and Recreation The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, also called the Parks Department or NYC Parks, is the department of the government of New York City responsible for maintaining the city's parks system, preserving and maintaining the ecolog ...

(DPR) The city has 28,000 acres (113 km²) of municipal parkland and 14 miles (22 km) of public municipal beaches. Major

municipal park An urban park or metropolitan park, also known as a municipal park (North America) or a public park, public open space, or municipal gardens ( UK), is a park in cities and other incorporated places that offer recreation and green space to re ...

s include

Central Park Central Park is an urban park in New York City located between the Upper West Side, Upper West and Upper East Sides of Manhattan. It is the List of New York City parks, fifth-largest park in the city, covering . It is the most visited urban par ...

, Prospect Park,

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Flushing may refer to: Places * Flushing, Cornwall, a village in the United Kingdom * Flushing, Queens, New York City ** Flushing Bay, a bay off the north shore of Queens ** Flushing Chinatown (法拉盛華埠), a community in Queens ** Flushi ...

, and

Forest Park A forest park is a park whose main theme is its forest of trees. Forest parks are found both in the mountains and in the urban environment. Examples Chile * Forest Park, Santiago China *Gongqing Forest Park, Shanghai * Mufushan National Fores ...

. The largest is

Pelham Bay Park Pelham Bay Park is a public park, municipal park located in the northeast corner of the New York City borough (New York City), borough of the Bronx. It is, at , the largest public park in New York City. The park is more than three times the siz ...

, followed by the Staten Island Greenbelt and

Van Cortlandt Park Van Cortlandt Park is a park located in the borough of the Bronx in New York City. Owned by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, it is managed with assistance from the Van Cortlandt Park Alliance. The park, the city's third-lar ...

. There are also many smaller but historically significant parks in New York City, such as

Battery Park The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City facing New York Harbor. It is bounded by Battery Place on the north, State Street on the east, New York Harbor to ...

Bryant Park Bryant Park is a public park located in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Privately managed, it is located between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas ( Sixth Avenue) and between 40th and 42nd Streets in Midtown Manhattan. The e ...

Madison Square Park Madison Square is a public square formed by the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The square was named for Founding Father James Madison, fourth President of the United States. ...

Union Square Park Union Square is a historic intersection and surrounding neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, located where Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway and Bowery, the former Bowery Road – now Park Avenue, Fourth Avenue – came together in ...

, and

Washington Square Park Washington Square Park is a public park in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. One of the best known of New York City's public parks, it is an icon as well as a meeting place and center for cultural activity. ...

. Additionally, some parks, most notably Gramercy Park, are privately owned and managed. Access to these private parks may be restricted. The

City Parks Foundation The City Parks Foundation is the only independent, nonprofit organization to offer programs in parks throughout the five boroughs of New York City. The organization works in over 750 parks citywide, presenting a broad range of free arts, sports ...

offers more than 1200 free performing arts events in parks across the city each year, including Central Park Summerstage, the

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and dance, theater, and children's arts festivals.

Top ten parks by area

Bronx The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...

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Greenbelt A green belt is a policy and land-use zone designation used in land-use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighboring urban areas. Similar concepts are greenways or green wedges, which h ...

Staten Island Staten Island ( ) is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located in the city's southwest portion, the borough is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull an ...

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Queens Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...

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Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...

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Freshkills Park Freshkills Park is a public park being built atop a former landfill on Staten Island. At about , it will be the largest park developed in New York City since the 19th century. Its construction began in October 2008 and is slated to continue in p ...

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Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

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Bronx Park Bronx Park is a public park along the Bronx River, in the Bronx, New York City. The park is bounded by Southern Boulevard to the southwest, Webster Avenue to the northwest, Gun Hill Road to the north, Bronx Park East to the east, and East 180 ...

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Alley Pond Park Alley Pond Park is the second-largest public park in Queens, New York City, occupying . The park is bordered to the east by Douglaston, to the west by Bayside, to the north by Little Neck Bay, and to the south by Union Turnpike. The Cross ...

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Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife refuge in New York City managed by the National Park Service as part of Gateway National Recreation Area. It is composed of the open water and intertidal salt marshes of Jamaica Bay. It lies entirely wit ...

is larger than any of the parks listed above, at , it is not listed in the above rankings since it is a

wildlife refuge A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, or features of geological or ...

and not an active-use park.

List of parks by borough

The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation maintains
complete list
of all parks. Public parks listed below are managed by NYC Parks unless otherwise noted.

The Bronx

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New York Botanical Garden The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is a botanical garden at Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City. Established in 1891, it is located on a site that contains a landscape with over one million living plants; the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, ...

Bronx Zoo The Bronx Zoo (also historically the Bronx Zoological Park and the Bronx Zoological Gardens) is a zoo within Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York. It is one of the largest zoos in the United States by area and is the largest metropolitan zoo in ...

** Bronx / Allerton Skate Park *

Starlight Park Starlight Park is a public park located along the Bronx River in the Bronx in New York City. Starlight Park stands on the site of an amusement park of the same name that operated in the first half of the 20th century. The amusement park was ori ...

East Bronx

* Agnes Haywood Playground* * Allerton Playground * Ambrosini Field * Bicentennial Veterans Memorial Park * Castle Hill Park *

Ferry Point Park Ferry Point Park is a park in the Bronx, New York City. The park site is a peninsula projecting into the East River roughly opposite the College Point and Malba neighborhoods of Queens. The park is located on the eastern shore of Westchester ...

* Givans Creek Woods * Haffen Park * Harding Park *

** Orchard Beach **

Rodman's Neck Rodman's Neck (formerly Ann Hook's Neck) refers to a peninsula of land in the New York City borough of the Bronx that juts out into Long Island Sound. The southern third of the peninsula is used as a firing range by the New York City Police Depart ...

* Pugsley Creek Park * Richman Park * Seton Falls Park * Seton Park *

Soundview Park Soundview Park (sometimes referred to as Sound View Park) is a park on Clason Point in the southern portion of the Bronx, New York City. The park is adjacent to the Clason Point, Hunts Point, and Soundview neighborhoods, situated where the B ...

West Bronx

* Aqueduct Walk * Bridge Park * Devoe Park * Ewen Park *

Harris Park Harris Park is a suburb of Greater Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Harris Park is located 19 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Parramatta and is part o ...

* Henry Hudson Park *

Jerome Park Jerome Park is a municipal park in the West Bronx of New York City. The park, along with the surrounding neighborhood of the same name, are both on land that was once Jerome Park Racetrack, which was founded by Leonard W. Jerome, grandfather o ...

* Poe Park, including

Edgar Allan Poe Cottage The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage (or Poe Cottage) is the former home of American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It is located on Kingsbridge Road and the Grand Concourse in the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx, New York, a short distance from its origi ...

* Raoul Wallenberg Forest * Riverdale Park * Spuyten Duyvil Shorefront Park * St. James Park *

University Woods University Woods, also known as Cedar Park, is a small woodland park in the University Heights neighborhood of the Bronx in New York City. Overlooking the Harlem River, the park sits between Sedgwick and Cedar Avenues. After having been named " ...

* Vidalia Park * Vinmont Veteran Park * Washington's Walk *

Wave Hill Wave Hill is a estate in the Hudson Hill section of Riverdale in the Bronx, New York City. Wave Hill currently consists of public horticultural gardens and a cultural center, all situated on the slopes overlooking the Hudson River, with exp ...

Williamsbridge Oval The Williamsbridge Oval is a park located in Norwood, Bronx, New York City. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. History The Williamsbridge Oval Park was built on the site of the Williamsbridge Reservoir after the reservoir ...

South Bronx

A sub-section of West Bronx. * A. Badillo Community Rose Garden and Park * Abigail Playground * Admiral Farragut Playground * Alexander's Alley * Arcilla Playground* *

Barretto Point Park Barretto Point Park is a waterfront public park on the East River located in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx. New York City. Its namesake is Francis J. Barretto, a 19th-century merchant and State Assemblyman who lived in the area. H ...

* Bill Rainey Park * Claremont Park *

Concrete Plant Park Concrete Plant Park is a public park in the Longwood section of the Bronx, New York City. It consists of located on the west bank of the Bronx River between Westchester Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard. The centerpiece and namesake of the park i ...

Crotona Park Crotona Park is a public park in the South Bronx in New York City, covering . The park is bounded by streets of the same name on its northern, eastern, southern, and western borders, and is adjacent to the Crotona Park East and Morrisania neig ...

* Estella Diggs Park * Grant Park * Hunts Point Riverside Park * Joseph Rodman Drake Park *

Joyce Kilmer Park The Lorelei Fountain, also known as the Heinrich Heine Memorial, is a monument located on East 161st Street in the Concourse section of the Bronx, New York City, near the Bronx County Courthouse. It was designed by German sculptor Ernst Herter a ...

* Julio Carballo Fields * Julius Richman Park *

Macombs Dam Park Macombs Dam Park ( ) is a park in the Concourse section of the Bronx, New York City. The park lay in the shadow of the old Yankee Stadium when it stood, between Jerome Avenue and the Major Deegan Expressway, near the Harlem River and the Macomb ...

Mill Pond Park Mill Pond Park is a public park in the New York City borough of the Bronx. It was built to compensate for the loss of parkland resulting from the construction of new Yankee Stadium between 2006 and 2009. The park's name was inspired by a dam nea ...

* Mullaly Park * Playground 52 *

Printer's Park Printer's Park (spelled Printers Park by some sources) is a small park on Hoe Avenue between Aldus Street and Westchester Avenue, in the Longwood neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City. The park is run by the New York City Department of Parks ...

Roberto Clemente State Park Roberto Clemente State Park is a state park in Morris Heights, Bronx, New York City. The park is adjacent to the Harlem River, the Major Deegan Expressway ( Interstate 87), and the Morris Heights station on Metro-North's Hudson Line. History ...

(NYSP) * St. Mary's Park *

Tremont Park Crotona Park is a public park in the South Bronx in New York City, covering . The park is bounded by streets of the same name on its northern, eastern, southern, and western borders, and is adjacent to the Crotona Park East, Bronx, Crotona Park ...

Brooklyn

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* Amersfort Park * Asser Levy Park * Bath Beach Park *

Betsy Head Park Betsy Head Park is a public park in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. The park occupies two non-contiguous plots diagonally across from each other at the intersection of Dumont Avenue and Thomas S. Boyland Street, co ...

Bensonhurst Park Bensonhurst Park is a park in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, New York City. The park stretches from the north border at Cropsey Avenue to the south border at Lower New York Bay. The park has a playground on the north-east side, a field in the middle of the ...

* Breukelen Ballfields Park *

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) is a botanical garden in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. It was founded in 1910 using land from Mount Prospect Park in central Brooklyn, adjacent to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Museum. The garden holds ...

Brooklyn Bridge Park Brooklyn Bridge Park is an park on the Brooklyn side of the East River in New York City. Designed by landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the park is located on a plot of land from Atlantic Avenue in the south, und ...

Brooklyn Heights Promenade The Brooklyn Heights Promenade, also called the Esplanade, is a -long platform and pedestrian walkway cantilevered over the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (Interstate 278) in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York City, United States. With views of ...

* Brooklyn–Queens Greenway *

Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, behin ...

Brower Park Brower Park is a municipal park in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City. It is located between Brooklyn Avenue to the west and Kingston Avenue to the east, and between St. Marks Avenue to the north and Park Place to the south. The T-shaped par ...

Bushwick Inlet Park Bushwick Inlet Park is a public park in the Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. The park currently consists of two non-contiguous sections along the East River and is eventually planned to reach into Gre ...

* Byrne Park *

Cadman Plaza Cadman Plaza is a park located on the border of the Brooklyn Heights and Downtown Brooklyn neighborhoods in Brooklyn, New York City. Named for Reverend Doctor Samuel Parkes Cadman (1864–1936), a renowned minister in the Brooklyn Congregation ...

* Canarsie Park * Carroll Park * Calvert Vaux Park * City Line Park * Coffey Park * Columbus Park * Commodore Barry Park * Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk * Coney Island Creek Park * Continental Army Plaza * Cooper Park (Brooklyn) *

Domino Park Domino Park is a public park in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. It spans a quarter mile along the East River near the Williamsburg Bridge, at the Domino Sugar Refinery site. Along the five-block riverside walk, variou ...

Dyker Beach Park and Golf Course The Dyker Beach Park and Golf Course is a public park and a municipal, 18-hole, championship golf course in the southernmost part of Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, in New York City, United States. The area stretches from the Belt Parkway in the south t ...

* East River State Park (NYSP) *

Floyd Bennett Field Floyd Bennett Field is an airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City, along the shore of Jamaica Bay. The airport originally hosted commercial and general aviation traffic before being used as a naval air ...

(NPS -

Gateway National Recreation Area Gateway National Recreation Area is a U.S. National Recreation Area in New York City and Monmouth County, New Jersey. It provides recreational opportunities that are not commonly found in a dense urban environment, including ocean swimming, bi ...

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Fort Greene Park Fort Greene Park is a city-owned and -operated park in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York City. The park was originally named after the fort formerly located there, Fort Putnam, which itself was named for Rufus Putnam, George Washington's Chief ...

* Four Sparrow Marsh * Frank M. Charles Memorial Park * Fresh Creek Nature Preserve * Friends Field * Fulton Park * Gravesend Park * Green Central Knoll * Herbert Von King Park * Highland Park * Irving Square Park * JJ Byrne Park * John J. Carty Park *

John Paul Jones Park John Paul Jones Park is a public park located in Fort Hamilton, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The park borders Shore Road, Fourth Avenue, 101st Street, and Fort Hamilton Parkway. The park is managed by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreatio ...

Kaiser Park ''Kaiser'' is the German word for "emperor" (female Kaiserin). In general, the German title in principle applies to rulers anywhere in the world above the rank of king (''König''). In English, the (untranslated) word ''Kaiser'' is mainly ap ...

* Kelly Park *

Leif Ericson Park Bay Ridge is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by Sunset Park to the north, Dyker Heights to the east, the Narrows and the Belt Parkway to the west, and Fort Hamilton Army Base a ...

* Leon S. Kaiser Playground * Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino Park * Lincoln Terrace Park * Linden Park * Lindower Park *

Linton Park Linton Park, formerly Linton Place or Linton Hall, is a large 18th-century country house in Linton, Kent, England. Built by Robert Mann in 1730 to replace a much earlier building called 'Capell's Court' The estate passed through the ownership of ...

* Macri Triangle * Manhattan Beach Park *

Maria Hernandez Park Maria Hernandez Park is a municipal park in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City. It is located between Knickerbocker Avenue on the southwest to Irving Avenue on the northeast, and Starr Street on the northwest to Suydam Street on the southeast. T ...

* Marine Park *

McCarren Park McCarren Park is a public park in Brooklyn, New York City. It is located on the border of Williamsburg and Greenpoint and is bordered by Nassau Avenue, Bayard Street, Lorimer Street and North 12th Street. The park contains facilities for recrea ...

McGolrick Park Monsignor McGolrick Park is located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in New York City, between Driggs Avenue to the south, Russell Street to the west, Nassau Avenue to the north, and Monitor Street to the east. History The land for the park was acquired ...

* McKinley Park *

Mount Prospect Park Mount Prospect Park is a park in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It includes Mount Prospect, the second highest point in Brooklyn. It is located on Eastern Parkway near Underhill Avenue, close to Grand Army Pl ...

Owl's Head Park Millennium Skate Park, also known as Owl's Head Skate Park, is a skate park in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, located in Owl's Head Park, adjacent to the Sunset Park Greenway. History The park opened in 2001, designed by pro-skater Andy Kessler, it w ...

* Paerdegat Basin Park * Paerdegat Park * Prospect Park *

Red Hook Park Red Hook Recreation Area, also known as Red Hook Park, is a public park in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, composed of several segments centered around Bay Street. The park's recreational facilities include handball cour ...

* Robert E. Venable Park * Saratoga Park * Scarangella Park * Seaside Park * Seth Low Park * Shore Park and Parkway *

Spring Creek Park Spring Creek Park is a public park along the Jamaica Bay shoreline between the neighborhoods of Howard Beach, Queens, and Spring Creek, Brooklyn, in New York City. Created on landfilled former marshland, the park is mostly an undeveloped nature ...

* Sternberg Park * St. Johns Park * Sunset Park * Tompkins Park * Trinity Park * Van Voorhees Park * Walt Whitman Park *

Wingate Park Wingate Park is a suburb of the city of Pretoria, South Africa. Located south-east of Pretoria CBD and just west of Moreleta Park Moreleta Park ( af, Moreletapark) is a suburb of Pretoria Pretoria () is South Africa's administrative capi ...

WNYC Transmitter Park WNYC Transmitter Park is a 6.61-acre public park located in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, where Greenpoint Avenue dead-ends by the East River shoreline. The site was acquired by the public radio station WNYC in 1935 as t ...

* Zion Triangle

Manhattan

* 79th Street Boat Basin *

Abingdon Square Park Abingdon Square Park is located in the New York City borough of Manhattan in Greenwich Village. The park is bordered by Eighth Avenue, Bank Street, Hudson Street and West 12th Street. Abingdon Square Park is one of New York City's oldest pa ...

Albert Capsouto Park Albert Capsouto Park (formerly CaVaLa Park) is a triangular-shaped pocket park in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded by Canal Street (Manhattan), Canal Street to the northeast, Varick Street to the west, an ...

* Asphalt Green * The Battery * Bella Abzug (Hudson) Park * Bennett Park *

Blackwell Island Light Blackwell Island Lighthouse, now known as Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, also was known as Welfare Island Lighthouse, is a stone lighthouse built by the government of New York City in 1872. See also: It is within Lighthouse Park at the northern ti ...

, Roosevelt Island *

British Garden at Hanover Square The Queen Elizabeth II September 11th Garden is located in Hanover Square in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City. It commemorates the Commonwealth victims of the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center. It was ...

Bowling Green A bowling green is a finely laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of turf for playing the game of bowls. Before 1830, when Edwin Beard Budding of Thrupp, near Stroud, UK, invented the lawnmower, lawns were often kept cropped by grazing sheep ...

* Captain Patrick J. Brown Walk *

Carl Schurz Park Carl Schurz Park is a public park in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, named for German-born Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz in 1910, at the edge of what was then the solidly German-American community of Yorkville ...

Chelsea Park Chelsea Park is a park in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, that dates back to 1910. The park has sports fields, basketball and handball courts, a children's playground and space for sitting. The surface is mostly tarmac or ...

City Hall Park City Hall Park is a public park surrounding New York City Hall in the Civic Center of Manhattan. It was the town commons of the nascent city of New York. History 17th century David Provoost was an officer in the Dutch West India Compan ...

Collect Pond Collect Pond, or Fresh Water Pond,, p. 250. was a body of fresh water in what is now Chinatown in Lower Manhattan, New York City. For the first two centuries of European settlement in Manhattan, it was the main New York City water supply syste ...

* Columbus Park *

Corlears Hook The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a historic neighborhood in the southeastern part of Manhattan in New York City. It is located roughly between the Bowery and the East River from Canal to Houston streets. Traditionally an i ...

* Dag Hammarskjold Plaza * Damrosch Park * Dante Park * DeSalvio Playground *

DeWitt Clinton Park DeWitt Clinton Park is a New York City public park in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, between West 52nd and 54th Streets, and Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues. The park, which was one of the first New York City parks ...

Drumgoole Plaza Drumgoole Plaza is a public park that sits below the ramps to the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan, New York City, on Frankfort Street between Park Row and Gold Street, and next to the main building of Pace University at One Pace Plaza. Opened on No ...

Duane Park Duane Park is a small, triangular public urban park located in the diamond of the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The park is bordered by Hudson Street to the east and branches of Duane Street on north and south sides. It was o ...

East River Greenway The East River Greenway (also called the East River Esplanade) is an approximately foreshoreway for walking or cycling on the east side of the island of Manhattan on the East River. It is part of the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway. The largest po ...

East River Esplanade The East River Greenway (also called the East River Esplanade) is an approximately foreshoreway for walking or cycling on the east side of the island of Manhattan on the East River. It is part of the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway. The largest po ...

East River Park East River Park, also called John V. Lindsay East River Park, is public park located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, administered by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Bisected by the Williamsburg Bridge, it stretches ...

** Stuyvesant Cove * Father Demo Square * Finn Square *

Foley Square Foley Square, also called Federal Plaza, is a street intersection in the Civic Center neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City, which contains a small triangular park named Thomas Paine Park. The space is bordered by Worth Street to th ...

Fort Tryon Park Fort Tryon Park is a public park located in the Hudson Heights and Inwood neighborhoods of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The park is situated on a ridge in Upper Manhattan, close to the Hudson River to the west. It extends most ...

Fort Washington Park Fort Washington, located near the community of Fort Washington, Maryland, was for many decades the only defensive fort protecting Washington D.C. The original fort, overlooking the Potomac River, was completed in 1809, and was begun as Fort War ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is a memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt that celebrates the Four Freedoms he articulated in his 1941 State of the Union address. It is located adjacent to the historic Smallpox Hospital in New York Cit ...

(NYSP) * Gorman Park *

Governors Island Governors Island is a island in New York Harbor, within the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located approximately south of Manhattan Island, and is separated from Brooklyn to the east by the Buttermilk Channel. The National Park ...

Governors Island National Monument Governors Island National Monument, a unit of the United States national park system, is located in New York City on of Governors Island, a island located off the southern tip of Manhattan Island at the confluence of the Hudson and East Rive ...

(NPS) * Gramercy Park * Greenacre Park *

Hamilton Fish Park Hamilton Fish Park is a public park in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The park encompasses two blocks bounded by Houston, Pitt, Sheriff, and Stanton Streets. It contains a playground, basketball courts, and a ...

* Hanover Square * Harlem River Park *

Hell's Kitchen Park Hell's Kitchen Park is a park in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan, New York City. History In the 1960s, there were very few open spaces in Hell's Kitchen. Residents complained about this, so the civic authorities thought ...

Herald Square Herald Square is a major commercial intersection in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, formed by the intersection of Broadway, Sixth Avenue (officially Avenue of the Americas), and 34th Street. Named for the now-defunct ''New ...

High Line The High Line is a elevated park, elevated linear park, greenway (landscape), greenway and rail trail created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the West Side (Manhattan), west side of Manhattan in New York City. The High Line's ...

Highbridge Park Highbridge Park is a public park on the western bank of the Harlem River in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City. It stretches between 155th Street and Dyckman Street in Upper Manhattan. The park is operated by the New York City Depa ...

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Hudson River Park Hudson River Park is a waterfront park on the North River (Hudson River) that extends from 59th Street south to Battery Park in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The park, a component of the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway, stretches and ...

* Imagination Playground at Burling Slip *

Inwood Hill Park Inwood Hill Park is a public park in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. On a high schist ridge that rises above the Hudson River from Dyckman Street to the n ...

* Isham Park * Jay Hood Wright Park *

Jackie Robinson Park Jackie Robinson Park (formerly Colonial Park) is a public park in the Hamilton Heights, Manhattan, Hamilton Heights and Harlem neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. The approximately park is bounded by Bradhurst Avenue to the east, 155 ...

Jackson Square Park Jackson Square Park is an urban park in the Greenwich Village Historic District in Manhattan, New York City, United States. The park is bordered by 8th Avenue on the west, Horatio Street on the south, and Greenwich Avenue on the east. The par ...

* John Jay Park *

Liberty Park Liberty Park is a elevated public park at the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City, overlooking the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in Lower Manhattan. The park, which opened on June 29, 2016, is located above the World Trad ...

* Louis Cuvillier Park *

Madison Square Madison Square is a town square, public square formed by the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway at 23rd Street (Manhattan), 23rd Street in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Manhattan. The square ...

Manhattan Waterfront Greenway The Manhattan Waterfront Greenway is a waterfront greenway for walking or cycling, long, around the island of Manhattan, in New York City. The largest portions are operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. It is separate ...

Marcus Garvey Park Marcus Garvey Park (formerly and also named Mount Morris Park) is a park on the border between the Harlem and East Harlem neighborhoods of Manhattan, New York City. The park, centered on a massive and steep outcropping of schist, interrupts th ...

* Mill Rock Park * Mitchell Square Park * Morningside Park * Murphy Brothers Playground *

Muscota Marsh Muscota Marsh is a one-acre public park in the Inwood, Manhattan, Inwood section of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, on the shore of Spuyten Duyvil Creek, a section of the Harlem River. It is adjacent to the much larger Inwood Hill Par ...

Paley Park Paley Park is a pocket park located at 3 East 53rd Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on the former site of the Stork Club. Designed by the landscape architectural firm of Zion Breen Richardson Associat ...

* Peretz Square * Cooper Triangle * Plaza Lafayette * Queen Elizabeth II September 11th Garden *

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Richard Tucker Square Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'stron ...

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(NYSP) * Riverside Park *

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* Roosevelt Triangle *

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* Samuel N. Bennerson 2nd Playground *

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* Septuagesimo Uno * Seward Park * Sheridan Square *

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* Southpoint Park, Roosevelt Island * St. Nicholas Park *

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* Straus Park *

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* Sunshine Playground * Swindler Cove Park *

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* Theodore Roosevelt Park *

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* Thomas Paine Park *

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* Verdi Square *

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* Winston Churchill Park *

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Queens

* Admiral Park * Alley Park *

* Andrews Grove * Astoria Park * Baisley Pond Park * Bayside Fields * Bayswater Park * Bayswater Point State Park (NYSP) * Beach Channel Park * Big Bush Park * Bowne Park * Brant Point Wildlife Sanctuary * Breininger Park * Broad Channel American Park * Broad Channel Park * Broad Channel Wetlands * Brooklyn–Queens Greenway * Brookville Park * Bulova Park * Captain Tilly Park * Crocheron Park * Cunningham Park * Detective Keith L Williams Park * Detective William T. Gunn Park * Dr. Charles R. Drew Park * Dubos Point Wildlife Sanctuary * Doughboy Park * Douglaston Park * Elmhurst Park * Evergreen Park (Queens), Evergreen Park * Flushing Fields * Flushing Meadows–Corona Park *

* Fort Tilden (NPS -

) * Fort Totten (Queens), Fort Totten * Francis Lewis Park * Frank Golden Park * Frank Principe Park * Gantry Plaza State Park (NYSP) * Haggerty Park * Harvey Park * Highland Park (Queens), Highland Park * Hinton Park * Hoffman Park (Queens), Hoffman Park * Hook Creek Park * Hunter's Point Park * Idlewild Park (Queens), Idlewild Park * Jamaica Bay Park *

(NPS -

) * Jacob Riis Park (NPS -

) * John Golden Park * Juniper Valley Park * Kissena Park * Kohlreiter Square * Libra Triangle * Linnaeus Park * Little Bay Park * Louis Pasteur Park * Mafera Park * Macneil Park * Marconi Park * Marie Curie Park * Montbellier Park * O'Donohue Park * Overlook Park (Queens), Overlook Park * Park of the Americas * Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto Park, Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto * Police Officer Edward Byrne Park * Powell's Cove Park * Queens Botanical Garden * Queens County Farm Museum * Queens Zoo * Queensbridge Park * Rachel Carson Playground * Railroad Park (Queens), Railroad Park * Ralph Demarco Park * Rochdale Park * Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk * Rockaway Community Park * Roy Wilkins Park * Rufus King Park * Seagirt Avenue Wetlands * Socrates Sculpture Park *

* Springfield Park (Queens), Springfield Park * St. Albans Park * Travers Park * Triangle 54 * Tudor Park * Udall's Park Preserve * Wayanda Park

Staten Island

* Aesop Park * Allison Pond Park * Amundsen Circle * Annadale Green * Arbutus Woods Park * Arden Woods * Alice Austen House * Barrett Park * Bayview Terrace Park * Blood Root Valley * Bloomingdale Park * Blue Heron Park Preserve * Blueberry Park * Bradys Park * Bunker Ponds Park * Buono Beach * Carlton Park * Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve (NYSP) * Clove Lakes Park * Clove's Tail * Conference House Park * Corporal Thompson Park * Crescent Beach Park * Deere Park * Eibs Pond Park * Faber Pool and Park * Fairview Park (Staten Island), Fairview Park * Father Macris Park * Forest Grove (Staten Island), Forest Grove * Fort Hill Park * Fort Wadsworth (NPS -

) * South Beach Boardwalk, South Beach–FDR Boardwalk *

* Gaeta Park * Great Kills Park (NPS -

) * Graniteville Quarry Park * Graniteville Swamp Park * Hero Park * High Rock Park Preserve * Huguenot Ponds Park * Hybrid Oak Woods Park * Ingram Woods * Jones Woods Park * Joseph Manna Park * King Fisher Park * Kingdom Pond Park * Last Chance Pond Park * LaTourette Park and Golf Course * Lemon Creek (Staten Island)#Parks, Lemon Creek * Long Pond Park * General Douglas MacArthur Park (Staten Island), General Douglas MacArthur Park * Maple Woods (Staten Island), Maple Woods * Mariners Marsh Park * Meredith Woods * Midland Beach * Midland Field * Miller Field (Staten Island), Miller Field (NPS -

) * Mount Loretto Unique Area * New Dorp Beach * Northerleigh Park * Ocean Breeze Park (Staten Island), Ocean Breeze Park * Old Place Creek Park * Olmsted-Beil House Park * Reed's Basket Willow Swamp Park * Richmond Terrace Wetlands * Sailors' Snug Harbor ** Staten Island Botanical Garden ** New York Chinese Scholar's Garden * Saw Mill Creek Marsh * Schmul Park * Seaside Wildlife Nature Park * Siedenburg Park * Silver Lake, Staten Island, Silver Lake * Sobel Court Park * South Beach Wetlands * St. George Park * Staten Island Greenbelt * Staten Island Industrial Park * Tappen Park * Tompkinsville Park * Tottenville Shore Park * Von Briesen Park * Walker Park (Staten Island), Walker Park * Wegener Park * Westerleigh Park * Westwood Park (Staten Island), Westwood Park * Willowbrook Park * Wolfe's Pond Park * Denotes playgrounds jointly operated with the New York City Department of Education.

List of former parks by borough

Manhattan

* St. John's Park

References

External links

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