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The High Line is urban redevelopment at its creative, nondestructive, value-added best, the city's first elevated park, built on top of a repurposed 1920s-era elevated freight train track, all rusted baroque, that winds through the far west Village, meatpacking district and Chelsea for one and a... more

Union Square is one of the most important and most crowded epicenters in New York City. It was named because it marked the place where Bowery and Broadway met, making it one of the most important intersections in the world during the 19th Century. Union Square park has long been a site of... more

Most cities don’t have one central, expansive, tranquil and exquisitely maintained park to their name. New York, thankfully, has two, and though Brooklynites who claim this is a suitable replacement for Manhattan’s Central Park may be overstating the case, by nearly any other standard Prospect... more

The Queens Botanical Garden occupies thirty-nine acres of land at the northeast section of Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Although it originated during the 1939 World’s Fair it did not open at its current location until 1963. The Garden receives over 300,000 visitors annually and aims to provide... more

Most famously known as the dumping ground referred to as the “Valley of Ashes” in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is now a 1,255 acre park that straddles Flushing and Corona, New York and is currently Queens’s largest park. The radical transformation... more

North Brother Island is located in the East River, between the Bronx and Riker’s island. There was little activity to be found on the small island until 1885, when a hospital in then’s Roosevelt Island moved its institution to North Brother Island. The hospital was designed to isolate and treat... more