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This is a list of New York City parks. Three entities manage parks within New York City, each with its own responsibilities: * Federal – US National Park Service (NPS) - both open-space and historic properties * State – New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (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 ecolo ...
(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 resi ...
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 Forest ...
. The largest is Pelham Bay Park, followed by the Staten Island Greenbelt and Van Cortlandt Park. 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 ...
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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. Th ...
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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 ...
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Union Square Park Union Square is a historic intersection and surrounding neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, located where Broadway and the former Bowery Road – now Fourth Avenue – came together in the early 19th century. Its name denotes ...
, and Washington Square Park. Additionally, some parks, most notably Gramercy Park, are privately owned and managed. Access to these private parks may be restricted. The City Parks Foundation offers more than 1200 free performing arts events in parks across the city each year, including Central Park Summerstage, the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival and dance, theater, and children's arts festivals.


Top ten parks by area

# Pelham Bay Park,
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 ...
- # Greenbelt,
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 a ...
- # Van Cortlandt Park,
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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 a ...
- # Marine Park, Brooklyn - #
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 18 ...
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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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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 I ...
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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 Forest ...
, Queens - While
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 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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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 18 ...
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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, ...
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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 t ...
** 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 orig ...


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 * Pelham Bay 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 Depar ...
* Pugsley Creek Park * Richman Park *
Seton Falls Park Seton Falls Park is a wooded area in the Edenwald area of The Bronx in New York City. The park is named after the Seton family (of which Elizabeth Ann Seton was a member), who owned the land in the 19th century. Seton Falls Park is located so ...
* Seton Park * Soundview Park


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 ...
* Henry Hudson Park * Jerome Park * Poe Park, including Edgar Allan Poe Cottage * 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 " ...
* Van Cortlandt Park * 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


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 Claremont Park is a park in the Morrisania section of the Bronx in New York City. The land on which the park sits was once part of the Morris family estate. It became a municipal park in 1884 as part of the New Parks Act. Description Clar ...
* Concrete Plant Park *
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 neigh ...
* Estella Diggs Park * Grant Park * Hunts Point Riverside Park * Joseph Rodman Drake Park * Joyce Kilmer Park * 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 Macom ...
* Mill Pond Park *
Mullaly Park Wendell Foster (February 14, 1924 - September 3, 2019) was an American politician who served on the New York City Council The New York City Council is the lawmaking body of New York City. It has 51 members from 51 council districts throughout ...
* Playground 52 * Printer's Park *
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 and Morrisania neigh ...


Brooklyn

* American Veterans Memorial Pier * 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, c ...
* Bensonhurst Park * 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 hol ...
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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, un ...
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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, beh ...
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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 ...
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Bushwick Inlet Park Bushwick Inlet Park is a public park in the 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 Greenpoint at Quay Stree ...
* 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 Congregatio ...
* Canarsie Park *
Carroll Park Carroll Park is a nearly public park located in the historic Washington Village-Pigtown neighborhood in southwestern Baltimore, Maryland. The park is bordered by Washington Boulevard to the south, Monroe Street to the west, Bayard Street to t ...
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Calvert Vaux Park Calvert Vaux Park (formerly known as Dreier Offerman Park) is an public park in Gravesend, Brooklyn, in New York City. Created in 1934, it is composed of several disconnected sections along the Belt Parkway between Bay 44th and Bay 49th Street ...
* City Line Park * Coffey Park * Columbus Park * Commodore Barry Park * Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk *
Coney Island Creek Park Coney Island Creek Park is a public park on the northwestern coast of Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York City. It abuts Coney Island Creek, Gravesend Bay, and Kaiser Park and is across Coney Island Creek from Calvert Vaux Park and Six Diamonds ...
* Continental Army Plaza * Cooper Park (Brooklyn) * Domino Park * Dyker Beach Park and Golf Course *
East River State Park Marsha P. Johnson State Park (formerly and also known as East River State Park) is an state park in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The park stretches along the East River near North 7th, 8th, and 9th Streets, with views ...
(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) * Fort Greene Park * 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 *
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 * 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 o ...
* Macri Triangle * Manhattan Beach Park * Maria Hernandez Park * Marine Park * McCarren Park *
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 * Paerdegat Basin Park * Paerdegat Park * Prospect Park * Red Hook Park * 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 South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch al ...
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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 ...
* Zion Triangle


Manhattan

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79th Street Boat Basin The 79th Street Boat Basin is a marina located in the Hudson River on the Upper West Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan, on Riverside Park at the foot of West 79th Street. Maintained and operated by the New York City Department of ...
* Abingdon Square Park * Albert Capsouto Park * 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 tip ...
, 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 o ...
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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 ...
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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. Th ...
* Captain Patrick J. Brown Walk * Carl Schurz Park *
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 Company. ...
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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 system ...
* 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 ...
* Dag Hammarskjold Plaza * Damrosch Park *
Dante Park Dante Park is a public park in Manhattan, New York City, located in the Upper West Side neighborhood in front of Lincoln Center near Central Park. Dante Park was established in 1921 by Italian-Americans in honor of the Italian poet Dante Alighi ...
* 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 * Duane Park * East River Greenway **
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 por ...
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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 stretche ...
** 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 t ...
* Fort Tryon Park *
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 Wa ...
* Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park (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 S ...
** Governors Island National Monument (NPS) * Gramercy Park *
Greenacre Park Greenacre Park is a privately owned, publicly accessible vest-pocket park located on East 51st Street between Second and Third Avenues in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, designed by Hideo Sasaki, former chairman of Har ...
* Hamilton Fish Park * Hanover Square *
Harlem River Park Harlem River Park is a portion of the 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 b ...
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Hell's Kitchen Park Hell's Kitchen Park is a park in 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 of possibly building parkl ...
* Herald Square * High Line *
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 ...
* Holcombe Rucker Park *
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 an ...
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Imagination Playground at Burling Slip Imagination Playground at Burling Slip is a playground on John Street near the South Street Seaport in New York City along South Street. The playground was designed by David Rockwell David Rockwell (born July 25, 1956) is an American architect ...
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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 th ...
* Isham Park * Jay Hood Wright Park *
Jackie Robinson Park Jackie Robinson Park (formerly Colonial Park) is a public park in the Hamilton Heights and Harlem neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. The approximately park is bounded by Bradhurst Avenue to the east, 155th Street to the north, Edge ...
* Jackson Square Park * 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 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 S ...
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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 separ ...
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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 ...
* Mill Rock Park *
Mitchell Square Park Mitchel Square Park is a small urban park in the Washington Heights neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is a two part, triangle-shaped park formed by the intersection of Saint Nicholas Avenue, Broadway and 167th Street. ...
* Morningside Park * Murphy Brothers Playground * Muscota Marsh *
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 Associa ...
* Peretz Square * Cooper Triangle * Plaza Lafayette *
Queen Elizabeth II September 11th Garden 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 o ...
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Ralph Bunche Park Ralph Bunche Park is a small municipal public park in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of New York City, on First Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets. It was named in 1979 for Ralph Bunche, the first African-American to win the Nobel Peace Priz ...
* Randalls and Wards Islands * Richard Tucker Square *
Riverbank State Park Riverbank State Park is a state park built on top of a sewage treatment facility on the Hudson River, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It was opened in 1993. On September 5, 2017, it was renamed Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park, aft ...
(NYSP) * Riverside Park *
Robert Moses Playground Robert Moses Playground is a playground and park in Manhattan, New York City. It is located in the Murray Hill neighborhood on First Avenue between 41st and 42nd streets, immediately south of the headquarters of the United Nations. The park ...
* Roosevelt Triangle *
Rucker Park Greg Marius Court at Holcombe Rucker Park is a basketball court in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, at 155th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, just east of the former Polo Grounds site. It is geographically at the base of a large cliff ...
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Sakura Park Sakura Park is a public park located in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, north of West 122nd Street between Riverside Drive and Claremont Avenue. Situated between Riverside Church on the south, the Manha ...
* Samuel N. Bennerson 2nd Playground *
Sara Delano Roosevelt Park Sara Delano Roosevelt Park is a park in the Lower East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. The park, named after Sara Roosevelt (1854–1941), the mother of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, stretches north–south along seven bl ...
* Septuagesimo Uno * Seward Park *
Sheridan Square The West Village is a neighborhood in the western section of the larger Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. The traditional boundaries of the West Village are the Hudson River to the west, West 14th Street to t ...
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Sherman Square Sherman Square is a pocket park bounded by Broadway, Amsterdam Avenue, and West 70th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in New York City. It was named in 1891 for William Tecumseh Sherman who lived in the area and died that year. ...
* Southpoint Park, Roosevelt Island *
St. Nicholas Park St. Nicholas Park is a public park in Manhattan, New York City, between the neighborhoods of Harlem, Hamilton Heights and Manhattanville. The nearly park is contained by 141st Street to the north, 128th Street to the south, St. Nicholas Ter ...
* St. Vartan Park *
Straus Park __NOTOC__ Straus Park is a small landscaped park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, at the intersection of Broadway, West End Avenue, and 106th Street. The most notable feature is a bronze 1913 statue by American artist Augustus Lukeman of a ...
* Stuyvesant Square * Sunshine Playground * Swindler Cove Park * Teardrop Park * Theodore Roosevelt Park *
Thomas Jefferson Park Thomas Jefferson Park is a public park in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The park is on First Avenue between 111th and 114th Streets. It contains a playground as well as facilities for baseball, basketball, footba ...
* Thomas Paine Park * Tompkins Square Park * Tribeca Park *
Union Square Union commonly refers to: * Trade union, an organization of workers * Union (set theory), in mathematics, a fundamental operation on sets Union may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * Union (band), an American rock group ** ''U ...
* Verdi Square * Vesuvio Playground * Randalls and Wards Islands * Washington Market Park * Washington Square Park *
West Harlem Piers Manhattanville (also known as West Harlem or West Central Harlem) is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan bordered on the north by 135th Street; on the south by 122nd and 125th Streets; on the west by Hudson River; and on ...
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West Side Community Garden The West Side Community Garden is a privately owned park in Manhattan, New York City, United States. It is located between West 89th Street and West 90th Street in the middle of the block between Amsterdam Avenue and Columbus Avenue. Histo ...
* Winston Churchill Park * Zuccotti Park


Queens

* Admiral Park * Alley Park *
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 I ...
* Andrews Grove *
Astoria Park Astoria Park is a public park in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens in New York City. The park is situated on the eastern shore of the Hell Gate, a strait of the East River, between Ditmars Boulevard to the north and Hoyt Avenue to the south. ...
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Baisley Pond Park Baisley Pond Park is a public park located in the southeastern part of Queens, New York City, bordering the neighborhoods of South Jamaica, Rochdale, and St. Albans. It covers , including the Baisley Pond in the center of the park. It is mai ...
* Bayside Fields * Bayswater Park *
Bayswater Point State Park Bayswater Point State Park is a state park located on Jamaica Bay in Queens, New York. The park is located at the western end of Mott Avenue in Bayswater near Far Rockaway and is built on land that once housed the mansion and estate of banker Lo ...
(NYSP) * Beach Channel Park * Big Bush Park *
Bowne Park Bowne Park is a park in Broadway–Flushing, Queens, New York, east of downtown Flushing. It is bordered by 29th Avenue on the north, 32nd Avenue on the south, 155th Street on the west, and 159th Street on the east. The park consists of a pla ...
* 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 Cunningham Park is a park in the New York City borough of Queens. The park lies between the Grand Central Parkway to the south and the Long Island Expressway, and is bifurcated by the Clearview Expressway. The park is operated by the New York C ...
* 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 *
Flushing Fields Flushing Fields is a public park in the northern section of the Flushing neighborhood of Queens in New York City. The site of this park was purchased by the Memorial Field of Flushing Corporation in 1921 at what was at the time open farmland. F ...
* Flushing Meadows–Corona Park *
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 Forest ...
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Fort Tilden Fort Tilden, also known as Fort Tilden Historic District, is a former United States Army installation on the coast in the New York City borough of Queens. Fort Tilden now forms part of the Gateway National Recreation Area, and is administered b ...
(NPS - Gateway National Recreation Area) * Fort Totten * Francis Lewis Park * Frank Golden Park * Frank Principe Park *
Gantry Plaza State Park Gantry Plaza State Park is a state park on the East River in the Hunters Point section of Long Island City, in the New York City borough of Queens. The park is located in a former dockyard and manufacturing district, and includes remnants of fa ...
(NYSP) * Haggerty Park * Harvey Park * Highland Park * Hinton Park *
Hoffman Park Hoffman Park is a park in Union Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey that is operated by the Hunterdon County Department of Parks and Recreation. The park contains hardwood forests, grasslands and 32 ponds, ''Manny's Pond'' being the largest. ...
* Hook Creek Park * Hunter's Point Park *
Idlewild Park Idlewild and Soak Zone, commonly known as Idlewild Park or simply Idlewild, is a children's amusement park in the Laurel Highlands near Ligonier, Pennsylvania, United States, about east of Pittsburgh, along US Route 30. Founded in 1878 as a ...
* Jamaica Bay Park *
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 ...
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Jacob Riis Park Jacob Riis Park, also called Jacob A. Riis Park and Riis Park, is a seaside park on the southwestern portion of the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. It lies at the foot of the Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Br ...
(NPS - Gateway National Recreation Area) * John Golden Park * Juniper Valley Park *
Kissena Park Kissena Park is a park located in the neighborhood of Flushing in Queens, New York City. It is located along the subterranean Kissena Creek, which flows into the Flushing River. It is bordered on the west by Kissena Boulevard; on the north b ...
* 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 * Park of the Americas * Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto * Police Officer Edward Byrne Park * Powell's Cove Park * Queens Botanical Garden * Queens County Farm Museum *
Queens Zoo The Queens Zoo is an zoo located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City. The zoo is part of an integrated system of four zoos and one aquarium managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society in partnership with the New York ...
* Queensbridge Park * Rachel Carson Playground *
Railroad Park Railroad Park is a 19-acre park in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, that opened in the fall of 2010. It was designed by landscape architect Tom Leader and built by Birmingham-based Brasfield & Gorrie. The park lies immediately south of the N ...
* Ralph Demarco Park * Rochdale Park *
Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk The Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk is a public park in Rockaway, Queens, New York, composed of the Rockaway Beach and the adjacent Rockaway Boardwalk. The beach runs from Beach 9th Street in Far Rockaway to Beach 149th Street in Neponsit, a dist ...
* Rockaway Community Park *
Roy Wilkins Park Roy Wilkins Park, originally known as Southern Queens Park, is a park in the St. Albans neighborhood of southeastern Queens in New York City. It is located on an irregular plot of land bounded by 115th and 116th Avenues to the north, 175th Stre ...
* Rufus King Park * Seagirt Avenue Wetlands *
Socrates Sculpture Park Socrates Sculpture Park is an outdoor museum and public park where artists can create and exhibit sculptures and multi-media installations. It is located one block from the Noguchi Museum at the intersection of Broadway and Vernon Boulevard in th ...
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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 ...
* 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 The Alice Austen House, also known as Clear Comfort, is located at 2 Hylan Boulevard in the Rosebank section of Staten Island, New York City, New York. It was home of Alice Austen, a photographer, for most of her lifetime, and is now a museum ...
* Barrett Park * Bayview Terrace Park * Blood Root Valley *
Bloomingdale Park Bloomingdale Park is a park on the South Shore of Staten Island. It is located in the Prince's Bay neighborhood, and is bounded on the north by Ramona Avenue, on the west by Bloomingdale Road, on the east by Lenevar Avenue, and on the south by ...
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Blue Heron Park Preserve Blue Heron Park is a nature refuge on the South Shore of Staten Island, New York. It has various natural areas including meadows, kettle ponds, freshwater streams and marshes, and woodlands. The park, maintained by the New York City Department of ...
* Blueberry Park * Bradys Park * Bunker Ponds Park *
Buono Beach Buono Beach is a small shorefront public park in the New York City borough of Staten Island, in the neighborhood of Rosebank, Staten Island, Rosebank, at the foot of Hylan Boulevard. Buono Beach borders New York Harbor and is adjacent to the park ...
* Carlton Park *
Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve is state park located near the southwestern shore of Staten Island, New York. It is the only state park located on Staten Island. History The park was the site of extensive mining of white kaolin clay in the ...
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Clove Lakes Park Clove Lakes Park is a public park in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Staten Island in New York City. Clove Lakes Park has a rich natural history with valuable ecological assets and a few remnants of the past. Chief among them are the park's lakes ...
* Clove's Tail *
Conference House Park Conference House Park is a park in Tottenville, Staten Island, New York City. The park is located along the Arthur Kill coast where the kill opens into Raritan Bay. It contains clay bluffs, part of the terminal moraine, formed when the Wisconsi ...
* Corporal Thompson Park * Crescent Beach Park * Deere Park * Eibs Pond Park * Faber Pool and Park *
Fairview Park Fairview Park may refer to: Australia *Fairview Park, South Australia Canada * CF Fairview Park (aka Fairview Park Mall), a shopping centre in Kitchener, Ontario Hong Kong *Fairview Park (Hong Kong), a private residential estate in the New Terri ...
* Father Macris Park * Forest Grove * Fort Hill Park * Fort Wadsworth (NPS - Gateway National Recreation Area) * South Beach–FDR Boardwalk *
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 ...
* Gaeta Park *
Great Kills Park Great Kills Park is a public park in Great Kills, Staten Island, New York City. Originally named Marine Park, it is a part of the Staten Island unit of Gateway National Recreation Area. Administered by the National Park Service, it covers an area ...
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Graniteville Quarry Park Graniteville Quarry Park is a public park operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, located on the North Shore of Staten Island, in the Graniteville area. The park is bordered on the north by Forest Avenue, on the south ...
* 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 Last Chance Pond Park is a wetland park located on Staten Island's East Shore and part of the main channel of the New Creek stream and the Staten Island Bluebelt. Located on the northeast migration flyway, Last Chance Pond Park hosts a wide r ...
* LaTourette Park and Golf Course * Lemon Creek * Long Pond Park * General Douglas MacArthur Park * Maple Woods * Mariners Marsh Park * Meredith Woods * Midland Beach * Midland Field *
Miller Field Miller Field may refer to: Places In the United States * Jessee/Miller Field, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut * Zell B. Miller Field, Young Harris, Georgia * Les Miller Field, a baseball venue in Chicago, Illinois * Miller Field (baseball), ...
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Mount Loretto Unique Area Mount Loretto Unique Area is an open space reserve and nature preserve administered by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation on the South Shore, Staten Island, South Shore of Staten Island, New York City. The area's total size ...
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New Dorp Beach New Dorp Beach is along the shore of the neighborhood of New Dorp, on Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City. It is between Midland Beach and Oakwood Beach. History The first recorded European settlement in the town of New ...
* Northerleigh Park * 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 Sailors' Snug Harbor, also known as Sailors Snug Harbor and informally as Snug Harbor, is a collection of architecturally significant 19th-century buildings on Staten Island, New York City. The buildings are set in an park along the Kill Van K ...
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New York Chinese Scholar's Garden The New York Chinese Scholar's Garden () is part of the Staten Island Botanical Garden, located in the Snug Harbor Cultural Center. Materials were shipped to Staten Island in the spring of 1998, when a team of 40 Chinese artists and artisans from ...
* Saw Mill Creek Marsh * Schmul Park * Seaside Wildlife Nature Park * Siedenburg Park *
Silver Lake Silver is a chemical element with the symbol Ag (from the Latin ', derived from the Proto-Indo-European ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical cond ...
* 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 * Wegener Park * Westerleigh Park * Westwood Park *
Willowbrook Park Willowbrook Park is a recreational park in Willowbrook, Staten Island, New York City, within the Staten Island Greenbelt. The public park provides baseball fields, a playground, and a pond. A carousel was opened in 1999. The former Staten Island ...
* Wolfe's Pond Park * Denotes playgrounds jointly operated with the New York City Department of Education.


List of former parks by borough


Manhattan

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St. John's Park St. John's Park was a 19th-century park and square, and the neighborhood of townhouses around it, in what is now the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. The square was bounded by Varick Street, Laight Street, Hudson Stre ...


See also

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10-Minute Walk The 10-Minute Walk, also known as the 10-Minute Walk to a Park, refers to a grassroots parks-advocacy movement to ensure that everyone in the United States lives within a ten-minute walk to a high-quality park or green space. The effort was adopt ...
* List of privately owned public spaces in New York City *
List of New York state parks This is a list of state parks in the U.S. state of New York. Also listed are state golf courses, seasonal hunting areas, and ''former'' state parks. In New York, state parks are managed by the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preserva ...
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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 ecolo ...
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Park Conservancy A park conservancy is a type of private, non-profit organization in the United States, that can support the maintenance, capital development, and advocacy for parks or park systems. These organizations raise money through a variety of means to care ...
* List of New York City parks relating to Hispanic and Latino American culture * List of New York City parks relating to Irish American culture * List of New York City parks relating to Jewish culture * List of New York City parks relating to the Vietnam War * List of New York City parks relating to World War I *
Skateparks in New York City A list of skateparks in New York City. List of parks by borough The Bronx *Bronx Skate Park (Allerton Skatepark) *Bruckner Skate Park (a.k.a. Throggs Neck) *Rev. T. Wendell Foster Skate Park *Playground 52 LII *River Avenue Skate Park * Van Cortlan ...


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