Riverside Park (Manhattan)
The Riverside Park is a 108 hectare large public park on the east bank of the Hudson River in New York district of Manhattan . The park is administered by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation .
The park consists of a narrow strip of land that stretches over a length of 6 kilometers along the river bank. The original 77-acre area of the park (from 72nd to 125th Streets) was wasteland created in connection with the construction of the Hudson River Railroad , a planned railway line in 1846. The railroad was to connect the cities of New York City and Albany . The first proposal to turn the strip of land into a park came from William R. Martin, a commissioner for parks, in 1865. The conceptual planning came from Frederick Law Olmsted , who had also planned the nearby Central Park . Construction began in 1872.
In the years 1875 to 1910, architects and horticulturists such as Calvert Vaux and Samuel Parsons laid out the park based on the model of an English garden. In the 1930s the park was redesigned and expanded by Robert Moses as part of a project, which cost around 100 million US dollars. In the course of this, the tracks of the New York Central Railroad were roofed over and the Henry Hudson Parkway built.
In 1990 Donald Trump , who owned 23 acres south of Riverside Park, agreed to expand the park by 9 acres. In the course of the expansion, the West Side Highway was rebuilt and the railway systems of the former Penn Central Company were removed.
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Coordinates: 40 ° 47 ′ 38.1 " N , 73 ° 58 ′ 41.5" W.