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New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...

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 List of federal agencies in the United States, agency of the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government, within the US Department of the Interior. The service manages all List ...

(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 and h ...

(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 city park, municipal park (North America), public park, public open space, or municipal gardens ( UK), is a park or botanical garden in cities, densely populated suburbia and other incorpora ...

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Central Park Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, and the first landscaped park in the United States. It is the List of parks in New York City, sixth-largest park in the ...

Prospect Park Prospect Park may refer to: Businesses * Prospect Park (production company), entertainment production company *Prospect Park Productions NZ, theatre company based in Dunedin, New Zealand Places New Zealand * Prospect Park, New Zealand, a portion ...

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Flushing may refer to: Places Netherlands * Flushing, Netherlands, an English name for the city of Vlissingen, Netherlands United Kingdom * Flushing, Cornwall, a village in Cornwall, England * The Flushing, a building in Suffolk, Englan ...

, and Forest Park. The largest is

Pelham Bay Park Pelham Bay Park is a municipal park located in the northeast corner of the 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 size of Manhattan's Central Park. The p ...

, followed by the

Staten Island Greenbelt The Staten Island Greenbelt is a system of contiguous public parkland and natural areas in the central hills of the New York City borough of Staten Island. It is the second largest component of the parks owned by the government of New York City ...

and

Van Cortlandt Park Van Cortlandt Park is a urban park, park located in the borough (New York City), 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 Al ...

. 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#Manhattan Island, Manhattan Island in New York City facing New York Harbor. The park is bounded by Battery Place on the north, with Bowling ...

Bryant Park Bryant Park is a , privately managed public park in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Manhattan. It is located between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) and between 40th Street (Manhattan), 40th and 42 ...

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, the fourth president of the United St ...

, Union Square Park, and

Washington Square Park Washington Square Park is a public park in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. It is an icon as well as a meeting place and center for cultural activity. The park is operated by the New York City Department o ...

. Additionally, some parks, most notably

Gramercy Park Gramercy ParkSometimes misspelled as Grammercy () is the name of both a small, fenced-in private park, and the surrounding neighborhood (which is also referred to as Gramercy), in Manhattan in New York City. The approximately park, located ...

, are privately owned and managed. Access to these private parks may be restricted. The

City Parks Foundation The City Parks Foundation is an independent nonprofit organization that provides free arts, sports, education, and community-building programs in parks across New York City. Founded in 1989, the Foundation operates in more than 400 parks, recre ...

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

Summerstage The City Parks Foundation is an independent nonprofit organization that provides free arts, sports, education, and community-building programs in parks across New York City. Founded in 1989, the Foundation operates in more than 400 parks, recre ...

, the

Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Charlie may refer to: Film and television * ''Charlie'' (2015 Malayalam film), an Indian Malayalam-language film * ''Charlie'' (2015 Kannada film), an Indian Kannada-language film * ''Charlie'' (TV series), a 2015 political drama series based ...

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

Top ten parks by area

Bronx The Bronx ( ) is the northernmost of the five Boroughs of New York City, boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It shares a land border with Westchester County, New York, West ...

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Greenbelt A green belt or greenbelt 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 gree ...

Staten Island Staten Island ( ) is the southernmost of the boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County and situated at the southernmost point of New York (state), New York. The borough is separated from the ad ...

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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 ...

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Queens Queens is the largest by area of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Located near the western end of Long Island, it is bordered by the ...

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Manhattan Manhattan ( ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the County statistics of the United States#Smallest, larg ...

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Marine Park A marine park is a designated park consisting of an area of sea (or lake) set aside to achieve ecological sustainability, promote marine awareness and understanding, enable marine recreational activities, and provide benefits for Indigenous peo ...

Brooklyn Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelv ...

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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 and wetlands of Jamaica Bay. It ...

is larger than any of the parks listed, at , it is not ranked 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, funga, or features of geolog ...

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.

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* Bronx Park **

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 City. It is one of the largest zoos in the United States by area and the largest Metropolis, metropol ...

** Bronx / Allerton Skate Park * Starlight Park

East Bronx

* Agnes Haywood Playground* * Allerton Playground * Ambrosini Field * Bicentennial Veterans Memorial Park * Castle Hill Park * Ferry Point Park * Givans Creek Woods * Haffen Park * Harding Park *

** Orchard Beach **

Rodman's Neck Rodman's Neck (formerly Ann Hook's Neck) is 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 Department; t ...

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

West Bronx

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

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

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

* 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 * Bill Rainey Park * Claremont Park * Concrete Plant Park * Crotona Park * 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 *

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 Park ...

* Roberto Clemente State Park (NYSP) * St. Mary's Park * Tremont Park

Brooklyn

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* 100% Playground * Adam Yauch Park * Admiral Triangle * Aimee Triangle * Alben Square * Albermarle Playground * Albert Lysander Parham Playground * American Playground * Amersfort Park * American Veterans Memorial Pier * Amersfort Park * Andries Playground * Anthony Chiarantano Park * Arbor Place (Brooklyn) * Asser Levy Park * Avenue R Mall * Badame Sessa Memorial Square * Banneker Playground * Bar and Grill Park * Bartel-Pritchard Square * Bartlett Playground * Bath Beach Park * Bath Playground * Bayview Playground * Beattie Square * Beaver Noll Park * Bedford Playground * Belmont Playground * Benson Playground * Bergen Beach Playground * Berry Playground * Berriman Playground * Betsy Head Park * Betty Carter Park * Bensonhurst Park * Bildersee Playground * Bill Brown Memorial Playground * Boerum Park * Boulevard Grove (Brooklyn) * Boyland Park (Brooklyn) * Breukelen Ballfields Park * Brevoort Playground * Brighton Beach Park * Brighton Playground * Brooklyn Anchorage Plaza * Brooklyn Bears Rockwell Plaza Garden *

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) is a botanical garden in the Borough (New York City), borough of Brooklyn in New York City. The botanical garden occupies in central Brooklyn, close to Mount Prospect Park, Prospect Park (Brooklyn), Prospect Park, ...

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 ...

* Brooklyn Heights Promenade *

Brooklyn–Queens Greenway The Brooklyn–Queens Greenway is a bicycling and pedestrian path connecting parks and roads in the New York City borough (New York City), boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, connecting Coney Island in the south to Fort Totten, New York, Fort Totte ...

* Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway * Brower Park * Brownsville I Ura Park * Brownsville Playground * Bush Terminal Park * Bushwick Fields *

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 Street ...

* Bushwick Playground * Butterfly Gardens (Brooklyn) *

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 ...

* Calvert Vaux Park * Campiz Playground * Canarsie Park * Callahan-Kelly Playground * Carroll Park * Century Playground * Captain John McKenna IV Park * Captain Oakley Junior Square * Carroll Park * Carver Playground * Charlie's Place * Chester Playground * Chiarantano Playground * City Line Park * Classon Playground * Classon Triangle * Clumber Corner * Cobble Hill Park * Coffey Park * Cohn Triangle * Colonel David Marcus Memorial Playground * Columbus Park * Commodore Barry Park * Cough Triangle * Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk * Coney Island Creek Park * Conners Square * Continental Army Plaza * Cooper Park (Brooklyn) * Corporal Wiltshire Triangle * Cosmo Barone Triangle * Crispus Attucks Playground * Cuite Park * Curtis Park * Cutinella Triangle * Cuyler Park * Cypress Hills Playground * Dahill Triangle * David A Fox Playground * David Ruggles Playground * De Diego Playground * Dean Playground * Decatur Playground * DeKalb Playground * Detective Joseph Mayrose Park * DiGilio Playground * Dimattina Playground * Dodger Playground * Domino Park * Duke Park * Dyker Beach Park * Dyker Heights Playground * Dyker Beach Park and Golf Course * East Fourth Street Garden *

Eastern Park Eastern Park was a baseball park in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York in the 1890s. It was bounded by Eastern Parkway—later renamed Pitkin Avenue when Eastern Parkway was diverted—to the north (home plate); the Long Island ...

* Edmonds Playground * El-Shabazz Playground * Eleanor Roosevelt Playground * Elijah Stroud Playground * Elton Playground * Ennis Park * Epiphany Playground * Ericsson Playground * Ethan Allen Playground * Eugenio Maria De Hostos Playground * Evergreen Playground * Father Giorgio Triangle * Father Popieluszko Square * Fermi Playground * Fidelity Memorial Park * Fidler-Wyckoff House Park * Fish Playground * Floyd Patterson Field *

Floyd Bennett Field Floyd Bennett Field is an airfield in the Marine Park, Brooklyn, 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 bein ...

(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, b ...

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Fort Greene Park Fort Greene Park is a city-owned and -operated park in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The park was originally named after the fort formerly located there, Fort Putnam, itself was named for Rufus Putnam, George Washington's chief of engineers in t ...

* Fort Hamilton Park * Fort Hamilton Plaza * Fraser Square * Freedom Square * Four Sparrow Marsh * Fresh Creek Nature Preserve * Friends Field * Fulton Park * Galapo Playground * Garden of Union * Garden Playground * Garibaldi Playground * Garibaldi Square * Gateway Triangle * George Walker Junior Playground * Georgia Avenue Garden * Gethsemane Garden (Brooklyn) * Glenwood Playground * Golconda Playground * Goodwin Gardens * Gowanus Greenway * Gowanus Playground * Grace Playground * Grady Playground * Grand Ferry Park * Grant Gore Triangle * Gravesend Park * Gravesend Square * Green Central Knoll * Greenwood Playground * Hancock Playground * Harmony Park * Harmony Triangle * Harry Chapin Playground * Harry Maze Memorial Park * Hattie Carthan Garden * Hattie Carthan Playground * Hawthorne Field * Heckscher Playground (Brooklyn) * Herbert Von King Park * Heffernan Square * Heisser Triangle * Highland Park * Hillside Park * Holy Name Square * Homecrest Playground * Hot Spot Tot Lot * Houston Playground * Howard Playground * Hull Street Garden * Human Compass Garden * Institute Park (Brooklyn) * Irving Square Park * Israel Putnam Playground * Jackie Robinson Park (Brooklyn) - Bedstuy * Jackie Robinson Park Playground - Crown Heights * Jacob Joffe Park * Jacob's Ladder Playground * Jefferson Field * Jerome Playground * Jesse And Charles Dome Playground * Jesse Owens Playground * JJ Byrne Park * John D'Emic Senior Memorial Park * John J. Carty Park * John Paul Jones Park * Kaiser Park * Kelly Park * Kennedy-King Playground *

KeySpan Park Maimonides Park (formerly MCU Park and KeySpan Park) is a minor league baseball stadium on the Riegelmann Boardwalk in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. The home team and primary tenant is the New York Mets-affiliated ...

* Kosciuszko Pool * Lady Moody Triangle * Lafayette Gardens Playground * Lafayette Playground * Lafayette Playground * Leif Ericson Park 7 Square * Lentol Garden * Lentol Triangle * Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino Park * Lieutenant William E Coffey Square * Lincoln Terrace Park * Linden Park * Lindower Park * Lindsay Triangle * Linwood Playground * Lion's Pride Playground * Lithuania Square * Livonia Playground * Lott Park * Louis Valentino Junior Park * Lowry Triangle * Lt. Federico Narvaez Tot Lot * Macri Triangle * Manhattan Beach Park * Marc And Jason's Playground * Marcy Green Center * Marcy Green North * Marcy Green South * Maria Hernandez Park *

* Marion-Hopkinson Playground * Marlboro Playground * Marsha P. Johnson State Park (NYSP) * Martin Luther Playground * Martin Luther King Jr. Playground aka Linton Park * Martinez Playground *

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 ...

* McDonald Playground * McDonald Square * McDonald Triangle * McGolrick Park * McKinley Park * Mcguire Fields * McLaughlin Park * Mellett Playground * Memorial Gore * Meucci Square * Middleton Playground * Milestone Park * Monastery Square * Monsignor Crawford Field * Monsignor McGolrick Park * Mother Cabrini Park * Mount Carmel Square *

Mount Prospect Park Mount Prospect Park is a park in the central portion of the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Brooklyn. It includes Mount Prospect, the second highest point in Brooklyn. It is located on Eastern Parkway (Brooklyn), Eastern Pa ...

* Narrows Botanical Gardens * Nautilus Playground * Nehemiah Park * Newport Playground * Newton Barge Terminal Playground * Nicholas A Brizzi Playground * North Pacific Playground * Nostrand Playground * Ocean Hill Playground * Onehundred Percent Playground * Oracle Playground * Orient Grove *

Owl's Head Park Owl's Head Park is a public park in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York. History The land that would become Owl's Head Park was first settled by the Canarsee. In the 17th century, Dutch settlers arrived in the area. The first E ...

* Oxport Playground * Pacific Playground * Paerdegat Basin Park * Paerdegat Park * Parade Ground (Flatbush, Brooklyn) * Park Slope Playground * Parkside Playground * Payne Park (Brooklyn) * Penn Triangle * Person Square * Pierrepont Playground * Pigeon Plaza * Pink Playground * Playground Three Forty * Police Officer Reinaldo Salgado Playground * Powell Playground * Power Playground * Pratt Playground * Private First Class Thomas Norton Memorial Playground * Private Sonsire Triangle *

* Public School 1 Playground * Public School 125 Playground * Public School 4 Paradise Garden * Pulaski Playground * Quaker Parrot Park at the Dust Bowl * Rachel Haber Cohen Playground * Railroad Playground * Rainbow Playground * Ramirez Playground * Red Hook Park * Remsen Playground * Right Triangle Playground * Robert E. Venable Park * Roberto Clemente Ballfield * Rodney Park Center * Rodney Park North * Rodney Park South * Rodney Playground Center * Rodney Playground North * Rodney Playground South * Roebling Playground * Rolf Henry Playground * Russell Pederson Playground * Saint Andrews Playground * St. Johns Park * Saint Nicholas-Olive Street Garden * Saint Nicholas-Powers Street Garden * Sam Leggio Triangle * Samuel Goldberg Triangle * Saratoga Park * Saratoga Ballfields * Sarsfield Playground * Scarangella Park * Schenk Playground * Seeley Park * Sergeant Joyce Kilmer Triangle * Sergeant William Dougherty Playground * Seth Low Playground * Sheepshead Playground * Shirley Chisholm State Park (NYSP) * Shore Park and Parkway * Sid Luckman Field * Sixteen Trees Triangle * Sledge Playground * Slope Park * Sobel Green * Sperandeo Brothers Playground * Spring Creek Park * Stephen A Rudd Playground * Sternberg Park * Steuben Playground * Stockton Playground * Stuyvesant Park * Success Garden * Sumner Playground * Sunset Park * Taaffe Playground * Ten Eyck Plaza * Terrapin Playground * The Amazing Garden * Thomas Greene Playground * Tiger Playground * Tilden Playground * Todd Memorial Square * Trinity Park * Trust Triangle * Umma Park * Under The Tracks Playground * Underwood Park * University Plaza * Van Dyke Playground * Van Voorhees Park * Vincent V Abate Playground * Walt Whitman Park * Washington Park * Washington Hall Park * Washington Plaza (Brooklyn) * Weeksville Playground * Weinburg Triangle * West Playground * Whitman Park (Brooklyn) * William Sunners Playground * Willoughby Playground * Wilson Playground * Wingate Park *

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 meets the East River shoreline. The site was acquired by the public radio station WNYC in 1935 as the sit ...

* Woodruff Playground * Zion Triangle

Manhattan

* 79th Street Boat Basin * Abe Lebewohl Park * Abingdon Square Park * Albert Capsouto Park * Asphalt Green * The Battery * Bella Abzug (Hudson) Park *

Bellevue South Park Bellevue South Park is a public park in the Kips Bay, Manhattan, Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Located on the west side of Mount Carmel Place between East 26th and 28th streets, the park was originally planned as part of the ...

* Bennett Park *

Blackwell Island Light Blackwell Island Lighthouse (now Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, also formerly 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 of Rooseve ...

, Roosevelt Island * British Garden at Hanover Square *

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 Yorkvill ...

* Chelsea Park *

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 came to New Netherland as early as 1638, probab ...

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

* Columbus Park * Corlears Hook * 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 pa ...

* Drumgoole Plaza * Duane Park *

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 p ...

** East River Esplanade **

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 the ...

Fort Tryon Park Fort Tryon Park is a public park located in the Washington 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 ...

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 ...

* Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park (NYSP) * Golden Swan Garden * Gorman Park *

Governors Island Governors Island is a island in New York Harbor, within the Boroughs of New York City, 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 ...

Governors Island National Monument Governors Island National Monument is a unit of the List of national parks of the United States, United States national park system in New York City. It is located on of Governors Island, a island located off the southern tip of Manhattan Isl ...

(NPS) *

* Greenacre Park * Hamilton Fish Park * Hanover Square * Harlem River Park *

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 park ...

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 linear park, greenway, and rail trail created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The High Line's design is a collaboration between James Corner Field Op ...

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 Dep ...

* 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 and ...

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 21, 1956) is an American architect a ...

Inwood Hill Park Inwood Hill Park is a public park in the Inwood, Manhattan, 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 Dyckm ...

Isham Park Isham Park is a historic park located in Inwood, Manhattan, New York City. The park was created in large part through gifts to the city from the Isham family of land from the William Bradley Isham estate. It sits roughly between Broadway ...

* 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, 15 ...

* Jackson Square Park * John Jay Park * Liberty Park * Louis Cuvillier Park * MacArthur Playground *

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, the fourth president of the United St ...

Manhattan Waterfront Greenway The Manhattan Waterfront Greenway is a waterfront greenway (landscape), 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 Recre ...

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 * Mitchel Square Park * Montefiore Square * 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 * Peter Detmold Park * Plaza Lafayette * Queen Elizabeth II September 11th Garden * Ralph Bunche Park *

Randalls and Wards Islands Randalls Island (sometimes called Randall's Island) and Wards Island are conjoined islands, collectively called Randalls and Wards Island, in New York City.

* 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 (New York City), borough of Manhattan. It was opened in 1993. On September 5, 2017, it was renamed Denny Farrell ...

(NYSP) * Riverside Park * Robert Moses Playground * Roosevelt Triangle *

Rucker Park Greg Marius Court at Holcombe Rucker Park is a basketball court at the border of Harlem and the Coogan's Bluff section of Washington Heights neighborhoods of Manhattan, at 155th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, just east of the forme ...

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 Manhatta ...

* Samuel N. Bennerson 2nd Playground * Sara Delano Roosevelt Park * Septuagesimo Uno * Seward Park * Sheridan Square * Sherman Square * 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 T ...

* 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 (Manhattan), Broadway, West End Avenue, and 106th Street (Manhattan), 106th Street. The most notable feature is a bronze 1913 ...

* 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 (Manhattan), First Avenue between 111th and 114th Streets. It contains a playground as well as facilities for bas ...

* Thomas Paine Park *

Tompkins Square Park Tompkins Square Park is a public park in the Alphabet City portion of East Village, Manhattan, New York City. The square-shaped park, bounded on the north by East 10th Street, on the east by Avenue B, on the south by East 7th Street, and o ...

* Tribeca Park * Union Square * Verdi Square * Vesuvio Playground * Vincent F. Albano Jr. Playground *

Randalls and Wards Islands Randalls Island (sometimes called Randall's Island) and Wards Island are conjoined islands, collectively called Randalls and Wards Island, in New York City.

* Washington Market Park *

* West Harlem Piers * West Side Community Garden * Winston Churchill Park *

Zuccotti Park Zuccotti Park (formerly Liberty Plaza Park) is a publicly accessible park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is located in a privately owned public space (POPS) controlled by Brookfield Properties and Goldman S ...

Queens

* Admiral Park * Alley Park * Alley Pond Park * Andrews Grove *

Astoria Park Astoria Park is a public park in the Astoria, Queens, 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 Avenu ...

* Baisley Pond Park * Bayside Fields * Bayswater Park * Bayswater Point State Park (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 *

* 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 Cit ...

* Detective Keith L Williams Park * Detective William T. Gunn Park * Dr. Charles R. Drew Park * Dubos Point Wildlife Sanctuary *

Doughboy Park Doughboy Park is a New York City public park in the Woodside neighborhood of Queens. It is located on a hilly parcel of land between Skillman Avenue and Woodside Avenue, and between 54th Street and 56th Street. The park was named in 1971. The ...

* 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. Fro ...

Flushing Meadows–Corona Park Flushing Meadows–Corona Park (often referred to as Flushing Meadows Park or simply Flushing Meadows or Corona Park) is a public park in the northern part of Queens in New York City, New York, U.S. It is bounded by Interstate 678 (New York), ...

* Forest Park * Fort Tilden (NPS -

) * Fort Totten * Francis Lewis Park * Frank Golden Park * Frank M. Charles Memorial 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 f ...

(NYSP) * Haggerty Park * Harvey Park * Highland Park * Hinton Park * Hoffman Park * Hook Creek Park * Hunter's Point Park *

Idlewild Park Idlewild and Soak Zone, also known as Idlewild Park or simply Idlewild, is an amusement park in the Laurel Highlands near Ligonier, Pennsylvania, about east of Pittsburgh. Founded in 1878 as a campground along the Ligonier Valley Railroad by ...

* 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 * Murray Playground * 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 * Queensbridge Park * Rachel Carson Playground * Railroad Park (Queens), Railroad Park * Rainey 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 * Spring Creek Park * Springfield Park (Queens), Springfield Park * St. Albans Park * Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, Sunnyside Gardens Park * Travers Park * Triangle 54 * Tudor Park * Udall's Park Preserve * Wayanda Park * Whitney Ford Field

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 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

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