List of parks in New York City
Map of New York City's major parks: 1) Central Park , 2) Van Cortlandt Park , 3) Bronx Park , 4) Pelham Bay Park , 5) Flushing Meadows Park , 6) Forest Park , 7) Prospect Park , 8) Floyd Bennett Field , 9) Jamaica Bay , A) Jacob Riis Park and Fort Tilden , B) Fort Wadsworth , C) Miller Field , D) Great Kills Park
This list includes the parks in the city of New York .
In New York City there are three agencies that are responsible for the management and maintenance of the parks. These authorities are:
- US National Park Service (NPS) - Responsible for the administration of US national parks and other nature reserves and memorials (Federal)
- New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYSP) - Responsible for the administration of New York State Parks (State)
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) - Responsible for the parks of the City of New York (Municipal)
There are also some parks in the city that are privately managed. The most famous are Bryant Park and Gramercy Park in Manhattan. Access to these private parks may be restricted.
The ten largest parks in the city
- 1. Pelham Bay Park , Bronx , 11.2 km²
- 2. Staten Island Greenbelt , Staten Island , 7.2 km²
- 3. Van Cortlandt Park , Bronx, 4.6 km²
- 4. Flushing Meadows-Corona Park , Queens , 3.6 km²
- 5. Central Park , Manhattan , 3.4 km²
- 6. Fresh Kills Park , Staten Island, 3.3 km²
- 7. Marine Park , Brooklyn , 3.2 km²
- 8. Bronx Park , Bronx, 2.9 km²
- 9. Alley Pond Park , Queens, 2.7 km²
- 10. Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk , South and Midland Beaches, Staten Island, 2.6 km²
List of parks by district
Bronx
- Bronx park
- Claremont Park
- Roberto Clemente State Park
- Crotona Park
- Devoe Park
- Ferry Point Park
- Henry Hudson Park
- Julius Richman Park (formerly Echo Park)
- Pelham Bay Park
- Playground 52
- Soundview Park
- Saint Mary's Park
- University Woods
- Van Cortlandt Park
Brooklyn
- Amersfort Park
- Bensonhurst Park
- Breukelen Ballfields Park
- Brooklyn Bridge Park
- Brower Park
- Bushwick Park
- Byrne Park
- Cadman Plaza
- Canarsie Beach Park
- Carroll Gardens
- Calvert Vaux Park (formerly Dreier-Offerman Park)
- Continental Army Plaza
- Dyker Beach Park
- Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park
- Fort Greene Park
- Frank M Charles Memorial Park (Brooklyn)
- Gravesend Park
- Herbert Von King Park
- JJ Byrne Park
- Kelly Park
- Leon S Kaiser Playground
- Lincoln Terrace Park
- Linton Park
- Manhattan Beach Park
- Marine Park
- Martha P. Johnson State Park
- McCarren Park
- McGolrick Park
- McKinley Park
- Mount Prospect Park
- Owl's Head Park
- Prospect Park
- Red Hook Park
- Red Hook Playground
- Seaside Park
- Seth Low Park
- Spring Creek Park
- St. John's Park
- Sunset Park
- Tompkins Park
Manhattan
- Abingdon Square Park
- Albert Capsouto Park (formerly CaVaLa Park)
- Battery Park
- Bennett Park
- Bowling Green (oldest park in town)
- British Memorial Garden
- Bryant Park
- Carl Schurz Park
- Central Park
- City Hall Park
- Collect Pond Park
- Columbus Park
- Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza
- Damrosch Park ( Lincoln Center )
- Dante Park
- DeWitt Clinton Park
- Drumgoole Plaza
- Duane Park
- Duffy Square
- East River Park
- Finn Square
- Foley Square
- Fort Tryon Park
- Fort Washington Park
- Gramercy Park
- Hamilton Fish Park
- High line
- Highbridge Park
- Horace Greeley Square
- Hudson River Park
- Inwood Hill Park
- J. Hood Wright Park
- Jackson Square Park
- John Jay Park
- Juan Pablo Duarte Square
- Madison Square Park
- Marcus Garvey Park
- Morningside Park
- Murphy's Brother's Playground
- Paley Park
- Peter Cooper Park
- Ralph Bunche Park
- Randall's Island
- Richard Tucker Square
- Riverbank State Park
- Riverside Park
- Robert Moses Playground
- Roosevelt Triangle
- Sakura Park
- Samuel N. Bennerson 2nd Playground
- Sara Delano Roosevelt Park
- Septuagesimo Uno
- Sheridan Square
- Sherman Square
- St. Nicholas Park
- Straus Park
- Stuyvesant Square
- Swindler Cove Park
- Theodore Roosevelt Park
- Thomas Paine Park
- Tompkins Square Park
- Tribeca Park (also known as Beach Street Park)
- Union Square
- Verdi Square
- Wards Island Park
- Washington Market Park
- Washington Square Park
- Winston Churchill Park
- Worldwide Plaza
- Zuccotti Park (also known as Liberty Plaza)
Queens
- Alley Pond Park
- Astoria Park
- Baisley Pond Park
- Brookville Park
- Clearview Park
- Cunningham Park
- Doughboy Park
Flushing Meadows Park with the Unisphere
- Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
- Forest Park
- Frank Golden Memorial Park
- Gantry Plaza State Park
- Jacob Riis Park
- Juniper Valley Park
- Pillowa Park
- Liberty Park
- Little Bay Park
- Major Mark Park
- Maurice Park
- Oakland Lake
- Roy Wilkens Park
- Rainey Park
- Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk
- Rufus King Park
- Springfield Park
Staten Island
- Aesop Park
- Amundsen Circle
- Austen House Park
- Bloomingdale Park
- Blue Heron Park Preserve
- Brady's Park
- Buono Beach
- Conference House Park
- Clove Lakes Park
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk
- Fresh Kills Park
- Great Kills Park
- High Rock Park Preserve
- Lemon Creek Park
- Long Pond Park
- Midland Beach
- Miller Field
- Silver Lake Park
- Staten Island Greenbelt
- South beach
- Fumble Park
- Willowbrook Park
Individual evidence
- ^ List of parks in New York City
- ↑ a b c d Lisa W. Foderaro: How Big Is That Park? City Now Has the Answer. The New York Times , May 31, 2013, accessed July 16, 2013 .
- ^ Governor Cuomo Announces Dedication of East River State Park for LGBTQ Civil Rights Activist Marsha P. Johnson. Retrieved August 26, 2020 .