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Community Garden
is a woodland garden and trail along the parkway
in the Bronx maintained by volunteers. It has been
recognized as a modelfor using terraced landscaping
along the parkway to capture stormwater in soil
divert it from the city's combined sewers. (2003
study by the Gaia Institute) |
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was planted in conjunction with the Fieldston Road
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Bell Tower Memorial Park |
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The Park With No Name (231st Street) |
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Phyllis Post Goodman Park |
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Spyten Duyvil Shorefront Park |
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Hill Park spreads from the cliffs of the Manhattan Ridge
to the Hudson and Harlem Rivers below. It includes Manhattan's
oldest stands of forest and its last remaining salt
marsh. Predictably, it is one of the best bird watching
sites in the Hudson River Estuary. |
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Tryon is a 67-acre park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted,
Jr. in 1935, when the Parkway was built, on land donated
to the City by John D. Rockefeller. It is designed as
a sequence of terraced gardens descending from the bluff
(the high point of Manhattan) to the Parkway, where the
triple arched entrance to the Billings Estate remains. |
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as the parkway offers motorists a sequence of vistas of
the river and the Manhattan bluff, so do the terraces
and overlooks of Ft. Tryon offer visitors scenic views
of the river, the landscape, and the serpentine roadway
below. |
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Washington Park is a 146-acre shoreline park that includes
ball fields, tennis courts, and the Little Red Lighthouse,
made famous by the classic children's book. |
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George Washington Bridge Park |
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Washington Bridge Park is a tiny park created and maintained
by volunteers on land owned by the Port Authority. Its
popularity shows the importance of neighborhood parks
- especially when access to the larger parks has been
cut off by highways and ramps. |
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 Riverbank
State Park is the only park of its kind in the Western
Hemisphere. Inspired by urban rooftop designs in Japan,
this 28-acre multi-level landscaped recreational facility
is a state-of-the-art park facility. Rising 69 feet above
the Hudson River, Riverbank includes an Olympic-size pool,
a covered skating rink for roller skating in the summer
and ice-skating in the winter, an 800-seat cultural theater,
a 2,500-seat athletic complex with fitness room, and a
150-seat restaurant. Outdoor sports amenities include
a 25-yard lap pool, a wading pool, four tennis courts,
four basketball courts, a softball field, four hand/paddleball
courts, and a 400-meter eight-lane running track with
a football/soccer field. |
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 Riverside
Park spans the Manhattan coastline along the Hudson River
from 72nd to 155th Street. Four miles long and an eighth
of a mile wide, Riverside is the narrowest regional park
in New York City. The section from 72nd to 125th Street
was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Calvert Vaux, and
Samuel Parsons, according to the English gardening ideal,
creating the appearance that the Park was an extension
of the Hudson River Valley. This section, including Riverside
Drive and the Henry Hudson Parkway, is listed on the National
Register of Historic Places and is a designated NYC scenic
landmark. |
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 Robert
Moses added 132 acres of land along the river to the park
when he built the parkway. In planning this new area,
landscape architects Gilmore D. Clarke and architect Clinton
Lloyd focused on the recreational needs of the city. |
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