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A bite-sized pastoralia on the Park's East Side, the Central Park Zoo houses 450 animals (more than one hundred species) in a dignified, brick playground designed and constructed for adults as much as for children. The Zoo (officially known as the Central Park Wildlife Center) is a model experiment... more

A sports-industrial complex built on stilts and piers that stretch out into the Hudson river, Chelsea Piers is a playground for Manhattan's adults large enough to hold a mid-sized city. The complex occupies four large piers between 17th and 23rd streets on the far west side of Manhattan, a... more

The concrete capital of NYU's Greenwich Village, Washington Square is a kind of gravitational center for all of Lower Manhattan above Canal Street, drawing an eclectic crowd of students and professors, East Village hippies and West Village yuppies, punks and professionals, musicians and guest... more

Manhattan's most underutilized (and undervalued) park, Madison Square is a tranquil, impeccably green space, presided over by the majestic stone skyscrapers of the Flatiron District. Before the population boom that followed the Civil War, this area marked the northern end of habitable Manhattan,... more

A fifteen-acre oasis among the countless oases of Central Park, Sheep Meadow is one of the great democratic sites in the city, a gorgeous, unimpeded lawn where, in the spring and summer months, New Yorkers of all shapes, sizes, races, classes, and boroughs flock, en masse. The Meadow was originally... more

A triumph of (literal) grassroots activism, the 6th & B Garden is a dense, almost woodsy retreat in the heart of the heady East Village. The park was fabricated in 1982, when the East Village was still an immigrant community (now Hispanic rather than European). City developers leveled several... more