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New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...
parks. Three entities manage parks within New York City, each with its own responsibilities: * Federal – US
National Park Service The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages all national parks, most national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational propert ...
(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 ecolog ...
(DPR) The city has 28,000 acres (113 km²) of municipal parkland and 14 miles (22 km) of public municipal beaches. Major
municipal park An urban park or metropolitan park, also known as a municipal park (North America) or a public park, public open space, or municipal gardens ( UK), is a park in cities and other incorporated places that offer recreation and green space to re ...
s include
Central Park Central Park is an urban park in New York City located between the Upper West and Upper East Sides of Manhattan. It is the fifth-largest park in the city, covering . It is the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated ...
, 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. 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 pa ...
, followed by the Staten Island Greenbelt and
Van Cortlandt Park Van Cortlandt Park is a park located in the borough of the Bronx in New York City. Owned by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, it is managed with assistance from the Van Cortlandt Park Alliance. The park, the city's third-lar ...
. There are also many smaller but historically significant parks in New York City, such as
Battery Park The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City facing New York Harbor. It is bounded by Battery Place on the north, State Street on the east, New York Harbor to ...
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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. The e ...
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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 (Manhattan), Broadway and Bowery, the former Bowery Road – now Park Avenue, Fourth Avenue – came together in ...
, and
Washington Square Park Washington Square Park is a public park in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. One of the best known of New York City's public parks, it is an icon as well as a meeting place and center for cultural activity. ...
. Additionally, some parks, most notably Gramercy Park, are privately owned and managed. Access to these private parks may be restricted. The City Parks Foundation 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

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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 pa ...
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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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Van Cortlandt Park Van Cortlandt Park is a park located in the borough of the Bronx in New York City. Owned by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, it is managed with assistance from the Van Cortlandt Park Alliance. The park, the city's third-lar ...
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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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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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Queens Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...
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Central Park Central Park is an urban park in New York City located between the Upper West and Upper East Sides of Manhattan. It is the fifth-largest park in the city, covering . It is the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated ...
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Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
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Freshkills Park Freshkills Park is a public park being built atop a former landfill on Staten Island. At about , it will be the largest park developed in New York City since the 19th century. Its construction began in October 2008 and is slated to continue in p ...
, Staten Island - # Marine Park,
Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
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Bronx Park Bronx Park is a public park along the Bronx River, in the Bronx, New York City. The park is bounded by Southern Boulevard to the southwest, Webster Avenue to the northwest, Gun Hill Road to the north, Bronx Park East to the east, and East 180 ...
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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 ...
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Queens Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...
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Queens Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...
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Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife refuge in New York City managed by the National Park Service as part of Gateway National Recreation Area. It is composed of the open water and intertidal salt marshes of Jamaica Bay. It lies entirely wit ...
is larger than any of the parks listed above, at , it is not listed in the above rankings since it is a
wildlife refuge A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, or features of geological or ...
and not an active-use park.


List of parks by borough

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


The Bronx

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Bronx Park Bronx Park is a public park along the Bronx River, in the Bronx, New York City. The park is bounded by Southern Boulevard to the southwest, Webster Avenue to the northwest, Gun Hill Road to the north, Bronx Park East to the east, and East 180 ...
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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 ...
** 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 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 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 pa ...
** 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 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 o ...
* Henry Hudson Park * Jerome Park * Poe Park, including
Edgar Allan Poe Cottage The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage (or Poe Cottage) is the former home of American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It is located on Kingsbridge Road and the Grand Concourse in the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx, New York, a short distance from its origin ...
* Raoul Wallenberg Forest * Riverdale Park * Spuyten Duyvil Shorefront Park * St. James Park * University Woods *
Van Cortlandt Park Van Cortlandt Park is a park located in the borough of the Bronx in New York City. Owned by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, it is managed with assistance from the Van Cortlandt Park Alliance. The park, the city's third-lar ...
* Vidalia Park * Vinmont Veteran Park * Washington's Walk * Wave Hill * 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 * Concrete Plant Park * Crotona Park * Estella Diggs Park * Grant Park * Hunts Point Riverside Park * Joseph Rodman Drake Park *
Joyce Kilmer Park The Lorelei Fountain, also known as the Heinrich Heine Memorial, is a monument located on East 161st Street in the Concourse section of the Bronx, New York City, near the Bronx County Courthouse. It was designed by German sculptor Ernst Herter a ...
* Julio Carballo Fields * Julius Richman Park * Macombs Dam Park * Mill Pond Park * Mullaly Park * 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


Brooklyn

* American Veterans Memorial Pier * Amersfort Park * Asser Levy Park * Bath Beach Park * Betsy Head Park *
Bensonhurst Park Bensonhurst Park is a park in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, New York City. The park stretches from the north border at Cropsey Avenue to the south border at Lower New York Bay. The park has a playground on the north-east side, a field in the middle of the ...
* Breukelen Ballfields Park *
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) is a botanical garden in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. It was founded in 1910 using land from Mount Prospect Park in central Brooklyn, adjacent to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Museum. The garden holds ...
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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, und ...
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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, behin ...
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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, Brooklyn, Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. The park currently consists of two non-contiguous sections along the East River and is eventually planned to reach into Gre ...
* Byrne Park *
Cadman Plaza Cadman Plaza is a park located on the border of the Brooklyn Heights and Downtown Brooklyn neighborhoods in Brooklyn, New York City. Named for Reverend Doctor Samuel Parkes Cadman (1864–1936), a renowned minister in the Brooklyn Congregation ...
* Canarsie Park * Carroll Park * Calvert Vaux Park * City Line Park * Coffey Park * Columbus Park * Commodore Barry Park * Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk * Coney Island Creek Park * Continental Army Plaza * Cooper Park (Brooklyn) * Domino Park * Dyker Beach Park and Golf Course * East River State Park (NYSP) *
Floyd Bennett Field Floyd Bennett Field is an airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City, along the shore of Jamaica Bay. The airport originally hosted commercial and general aviation traffic before being used as a naval air ...
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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, bir ...
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Fort Greene Park Fort Greene Park is a city-owned and -operated park in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York City. The park was originally named after the fort formerly located there, Fort Putnam, which itself was named for Rufus Putnam, George Washington's Chief ...
* Four Sparrow Marsh * Frank M. Charles Memorial Park * Fresh Creek Nature Preserve * Friends Field * Fulton Park * Gravesend Park * Green Central Knoll * Herbert Von King Park * Highland Park * Irving Square Park * JJ Byrne Park * John J. Carty Park *
John Paul Jones Park John Paul Jones Park is a public park located in Fort Hamilton, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The park borders Shore Road, Fourth Avenue, 101st Street, and Fort Hamilton Parkway. The park is managed by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreatio ...
* Kaiser Park * 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 of ...
* Macri Triangle * Manhattan Beach Park *
Maria Hernandez Park Maria Hernandez Park is a municipal park in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City. It is located between Knickerbocker Avenue on the southwest to Irving Avenue on the northeast, and Starr Street on the northwest to Suydam Street on the southeast. T ...
* Marine Park *
McCarren Park McCarren Park is a public park in Brooklyn, New York City. It is located on the border of Williamsburg and Greenpoint and is bordered by Nassau Avenue, Bayard Street, Lorimer Street and North 12th Street. The park contains facilities for recrea ...
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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 Red Hook Recreation Area, also known as Red Hook Park, is a public park in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, composed of several segments centered around Bay Street. The park's recreational facilities include handball cour ...
* Robert E. Venable Park * Saratoga Park * Scarangella Park * Seaside Park * Seth Low Park * Shore Park and Parkway * Spring Creek Park * Sternberg Park * St. Johns Park * Sunset Park * Tompkins Park * Trinity Park * Van Voorhees Park * Walt Whitman Park *
Wingate Park Wingate Park is a suburb of the city of Pretoria, South Africa. Located south-east of Pretoria CBD and just west of Moreleta Park Moreleta Park ( af, Moreletapark) is a suburb of Pretoria Pretoria () is South Africa's administrative capi ...
* WNYC Transmitter Park * Zion Triangle


Manhattan

* 79th Street Boat Basin *
Abingdon Square Park Abingdon Square Park is located in the New York City borough of Manhattan in Greenwich Village. The park is bordered by Eighth Avenue, Bank Street, Hudson Street and West 12th Street. Abingdon Square Park is one of New York City's oldest pa ...
* Albert Capsouto Park * Asphalt Green * The Battery * Bella Abzug (Hudson) Park * Bennett Park * Blackwell Island Light, 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 ...
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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. The e ...
* 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 and Upper East Sides of Manhattan. It is the fifth-largest park in the city, covering . It is the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated ...
* 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 was an officer in the Dutch West India Compan ...
* Collect Pond * Columbus Park * Corlears Hook * Dag Hammarskjold Plaza * Damrosch Park * Dante Park * DeSalvio Playground * DeWitt Clinton Park * 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 po ...
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East River Esplanade The East River Greenway (also called the East River Esplanade) is an approximately foreshoreway for walking or cycling on the east side of the island of Manhattan on the East River. It is part of the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway. The largest po ...
** East River Park ** Stuyvesant Cove * Father Demo Square * Finn Square * Foley Square *
Fort Tryon Park Fort Tryon Park is a public park located in the Hudson Heights and Inwood neighborhoods of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The park is situated on a ridge in Upper Manhattan, close to the Hudson River to the west. It extends most ...
* Fort Washington Park *
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is a memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt that celebrates the Four Freedoms he articulated in his 1941 State of the Union address. It is located adjacent to the historic Smallpox Hospital in New York Cit ...
(NYSP) * Gorman Park *
Governors Island Governors Island is a island in New York Harbor, within the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located approximately south of Manhattan Island, and is separated from Brooklyn to the east by the Buttermilk Channel. The National Park ...
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Governors Island National Monument Governors Island National Monument, a unit of the United States national park system, is located in New York City on of Governors Island, a island located off the southern tip of Manhattan Island at the confluence of the Hudson and East Rive ...
(NPS) * Gramercy Park * Greenacre Park *
Hamilton Fish Park Hamilton Fish Park is a public park in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The park encompasses two blocks bounded by Houston, Pitt, Sheriff, and Stanton Streets. It contains a playground, basketball courts, and a ...
* Hanover Square * Harlem River Park * Hell's Kitchen Park *
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 ...
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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 Opera ...
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Highbridge Park Highbridge Park is a public park on the western bank of the Harlem River in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City. It stretches between 155th Street and Dyckman Street in Upper Manhattan. The park is operated by the New York City Depa ...
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Holcombe Rucker Park Holcombe may refer to: Places ;United Kingdom * Holcombe, Greater Manchester * Holcombe, East Devon * Holcombe, Somerset * Holcombe, Teignbridge, Devon * Holcombe Manor, Chatham, Kent * Holcombe Rogus, Devon * Holcombe Court, Devon * Holcombe Bur ...
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Hudson River Park Hudson River Park is a waterfront park on the North River (Hudson River) that extends from 59th Street south to Battery Park in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The park, a component of the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway, stretches and ...
* Imagination Playground at Burling Slip * Inwood Hill Park * Isham Park * Jay Hood Wright Park * Jackie Robinson Park *
Jackson Square Park Jackson Square Park is an urban park in the Greenwich Village Historic District in Manhattan, New York City, United States. The park is bordered by 8th Avenue on the west, Horatio Street on the south, and Greenwich Avenue on the east. The par ...
* John Jay Park *
Liberty Park Liberty Park is a elevated public park at the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City, overlooking the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in Lower Manhattan. The park, which opened on June 29, 2016, is located above the World Trad ...
* Louis Cuvillier Park *
Madison Square Madison Square is a town square, public square formed by the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway at 23rd Street (Manhattan), 23rd Street in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Manhattan. The square ...
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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 separate ...
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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 th ...
* Mill Rock Park * Mitchell Square Park * Morningside Park * Murphy Brothers Playground *
Muscota Marsh Muscota Marsh is a one-acre public park in the Inwood, Manhattan, Inwood section of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, on the shore of Spuyten Duyvil Creek, a section of the Harlem River. It is adjacent to the much larger Inwood Hill Par ...
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Paley Park Paley Park is a pocket park located at 3 East 53rd Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on the former site of the Stork Club. Designed by the landscape architectural firm of Zion Breen Richardson Associat ...
* Peretz Square * Cooper Triangle * Plaza Lafayette * Queen Elizabeth II September 11th Garden * Ralph Bunche Park * Randalls and Wards Islands * Richard Tucker Square * Riverbank State Park (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 Manhattan S ...
* 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 blo ...
* Septuagesimo Uno * Seward Park * Sheridan Square * Sherman Square * Southpoint Park, Roosevelt Island * St. Nicholas Park *
St. Vartan Park St. Vartan Park is a public park in the Murray Hill, Manhattan, Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Located on the block bounded by First Avenue (Manhattan), First Avenue, Second Avenue (Manhattan), Second Avenue, and 35th and ...
* Straus Park * 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, footb ...
* 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 on ...
* 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 ** ''Un ...
* Verdi Square * Vesuvio Playground * Randalls and Wards Islands * Washington Market Park *
Washington Square Park Washington Square Park is a public park in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. One of the best known of New York City's public parks, it is an icon as well as a meeting place and center for cultural activity. ...
* 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, New York City. It is located in a privately owned public space (POPS) controlled by Brookfield Properties and Goldman Sachs ...


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 ...
* 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 mainta ...
* 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 banke ...
(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 play ...
* 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 Captain Tilly Park is a park in Jamaica Hills, Queens, New York, north of downtown Jamaica. It is bordered by 165th Street to the west, 85th Avenue to the north, Chapin Parkway and Gothic Drive to the northeast, and Highland Avenue to the sout ...
* 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 Ci ...
* 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 Meadows–Corona Park * Forest Park *
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 ...
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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, bir ...
) * Fort Totten * Francis Lewis Park * Frank Golden Park * Frank Principe Park * Gantry Plaza State Park (NYSP) * Haggerty Park * Harvey Park * Highland Park * Hinton Park * Hoffman Park * Hook Creek Park * Hunter's Point Park * Idlewild Park * 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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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, bir ...
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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, Queens, Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City Boroughs of New York City, borough of Queens. It lies at the foot of ...
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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, bir ...
) * John Golden Park * Juniper Valley Park * Kissena Park * Kohlreiter Square * Libra Triangle * Linnaeus Park * Little Bay Park * Louis Pasteur Park * Mafera Park * Macneil Park * Marconi Park * Marie Curie Park * Montbellier Park * O'Donohue Park * Overlook Park * 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 Rachel Carson Playground, also known as Silent Spring Playground, is a park located in Flushing, Queens, New York City. It is located across the street from IS 237, which owns the park. Description The park, opened in 1946, was named to honor Ra ...
* Railroad Park * Ralph Demarco Park * Rochdale Park * Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk * Rockaway Community Park * Roy Wilkins Park * Rufus King Park * Seagirt Avenue Wetlands *
Socrates Sculpture Park 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 ...
* Spring Creek Park * Springfield Park * St. Albans Park * Travers Park *
Triangle 54 Triangle 54 is a public park located in the Blissville neighborhood of Long Island City in Queens, New York City. This traffic triangle is bound by 48th Street on the southwest and east, and 54th Avenue on the north. The park contains ten trees ...
* Tudor Park * Udall's Park Preserve * Wayanda Park


Staten Island

* Aesop Park * Allison Pond Park * Amundsen Circle * Annadale Green * Arbutus Woods Park * Arden Woods * Alice Austen House * Barrett Park * Bayview Terrace Park * Blood Root Valley * Bloomingdale Park * Blue Heron Park Preserve * Blueberry Park * Bradys Park * Bunker Ponds Park *
Buono Beach Buono Beach is a small shorefront public park in the New York City borough of Staten Island, in the neighborhood of Rosebank, at the foot of Hylan Boulevard. Buono Beach borders New York Harbor and is adjacent to the park containing the Alice Au ...
* Carlton Park * Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve (NYSP) * Clove Lakes Park * 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 Wisconsin ...
* Corporal Thompson Park * Crescent Beach Park * Deere Park * Eibs Pond Park * Faber Pool and Park * Fairview Park * Father Macris Park * Forest Grove * Fort Hill Park *
Fort Wadsworth Fort Wadsworth is a former United States military installation on Staten Island in New York City, situated on The Narrows which divide New York Bay into Upper and Lower halves, a natural point for defense of the Upper Bay and Manhattan beyon ...
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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, bir ...
) * 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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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, bir ...
) * 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 * Long Pond Park * General Douglas MacArthur Park * Maple Woods * Mariners Marsh Park * Meredith Woods * Midland Beach * Midland Field * Miller Field (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, bir ...
) * Mount Loretto Unique Area * New Dorp Beach * 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 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 ...
** Staten Island Botanical Garden ** New York Chinese Scholar's Garden * Saw Mill Creek Marsh * Schmul Park * Seaside Wildlife Nature Park * Siedenburg Park * Silver Lake * Sobel Court Park * South Beach Wetlands * St. George Park * Staten Island Greenbelt * Staten Island Industrial Park *
Tappen Park Tappen Park is a small park and square in the Stapleton neighborhood on the East Shore of Staten Island, New York City. It is bounded by Bay Street on the east, Water Street on the north, and Canal Street on the south and west. It is named for ...
* Tompkinsville Park * Tottenville Shore Park * Von Briesen Park * Walker Park * Wegener Park * Westerleigh Park * Westwood Park * Willowbrook Park * Wolfe's Pond Park * Denotes playgrounds jointly operated with the
New York City Department of Education The New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) is the department of the government of New York City that manages the city's public school system. The City School District of the City of New York (or the New York City Public Schools) is t ...
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List of former parks by borough


Manhattan

* St. John's Park


See also

* 10-Minute Walk *
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* Skateparks in New York City


References


External links


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