List of New York City parks
Encyclopedia
This is a list of parks in New York City
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There are three entities that manage parks within New York City. Each agency has its own responsibilities for its own parks. The three agencies are as follows:
Federal
US National Park Service
(NPS) - both open-space and historic properties
State
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
(NYSP)
Municipal
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
(DPR)
Additionally, some parks, most notably Gramercy Park
, are privately owned and managed. Access to these private parks may be restricted.
The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation maintains a complete list of all parks.
New York City
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There are three entities that manage parks within New York City. Each agency has its own responsibilities for its own parks. The three agencies are as follows:
Federal
US National Park Service
National Park Service
The National Park Service is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations...
(NPS) - both open-space and historic properties
State
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation operates :*168 state parks*35 state historic sites*76 developed beaches*53 water recreational facilities*27 golf courses*39 full service cottages*818 cabins...
(NYSP)
Municipal
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
The City of New York Department of Parks & Recreation is the department of government of the City of New York responsible for maintaining the city's parks system, preserving and maintaining the ecological diversity of the city's natural areas, and furnishing recreational opportunities for city's...
(DPR)
Additionally, some parks, most notably Gramercy Park
Gramercy Park
Gramercy Park is a small, fenced-in private park in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park is at the core of both the neighborhood referred to as either Gramercy or Gramercy Park and the Gramercy Park Historic District...
, are privately owned and managed. Access to these private parks may be restricted.
Top Ten Parks by Area
- 1. Pelham Bay ParkPelham Bay ParkPelham Bay Park, located in the northeast corner of the New York City borough of The Bronx and extending partially into Westchester County, is at the largest public park in New York City. The section of the park within New York City's borders is more than three times the size of Manhattan's...
, Bronx 2,765 acres (11.2 km²) - 2. GreenbeltStaten Island GreenbeltThe Staten Island Greenbelt is a system of contiguous public parkland and natural areas in the central hills of the New York City borough of Staten Island...
, Staten Island 1,778 acres (7.2 km²) - 3. Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens 1,255 acres (5.1 km²)
- 4. Van Cortlandt ParkVan Cortlandt ParkVan Cortlandt Park is a park located in the Bronx in New York City. It is the fourth largest park in New York City, behind Pelham Bay Park, Flushing Meadows Park and Staten Island Greenbelt....
, Bronx 1,146 acres (4.6 km²) - 5. Central ParkCentral ParkCentral Park is a public park in the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan...
, ManhattanManhattanManhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
843 acres (3.4 km²) - 6. Fresh Kills ParkFresh Kills LandfillThe Fresh Kills Landfill was a landfill covering in the New York City borough of Staten Island in the United States. The name comes from the landfill's location along the banks of the Fresh Kills estuary in western Staten Island...
, Staten Island 813 acres (3.3 km²) - 7. Marine Park, BrooklynMarine Park, BrooklynMarine Park is a public park located in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Its 798 acres surround the westernmost inlet of Jamaica Bay. Most of the land for Marine Park, Brooklyn was donated to New York City to be turned into public park land by the Whitney family in 1920 and by Frederic B....
, 798 acres (3.2 km²) - 8. Bronx ParkBronx ParkBronx Park, laid out along the Bronx River in the Bronx, New York, is the home of the New York Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo. Bicycle paths go northwest, north and east, along Mosholu Parkway, Bronx River Parkway and Pelham Parkway respectively...
, Bronx 718 acres (2.9 km²) - 9. Alley Pond ParkAlley Pond ParkAlley Pond Park is the second-largest public park in Queens, New York. It occupies , most of it acquired and cleared by the city in 1929, as authorized by a resolution of the New York City Board of Estimate in 1927. The park is bordered to the east by Douglaston, to the west by Bayside, to the...
, Queens 655 acres (2.7 km²) - 10. Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk, South and Midland Beaches, Staten Island 638 acres (2.6 km²)
Listing of Parks by Borough
The list is not complete. Please help Wikipedia by adding parks under the appropriate borough section.The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation maintains a complete list of all parks.
Bronx
- Bronx ParkBronx ParkBronx Park, laid out along the Bronx River in the Bronx, New York, is the home of the New York Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo. Bicycle paths go northwest, north and east, along Mosholu Parkway, Bronx River Parkway and Pelham Parkway respectively...
- Claremont Park
- Roberto Clemente State ParkRoberto Clemente State ParkRoberto Clemente State Park is a state park in the South Bronx, New York in the USA. The park is in the northern part of New York City, adjacent to the Harlem River, the Major Deegan Expressway and the Morris Heights station on Metro-North's Hudson Line...
- Crotona ParkCrotona ParkCrotona Park is a public park in the Bronx, New York City, United States. It covers or one-fifth of a square mile , including a 3.3 acre lake, the Bronx's largest swimming pool, and 28 species of trees...
- Devoe Park
- Henry Hudson ParkHenry Hudson ParkHenry Hudson Park is a small park in the Spuyten Duyvil section of The Bronx.The park is named after famed English explorer Henry Hudson, who is also the namesake of the nearby Hudson River and Henry Hudson Parkway. In 1906 it was decided to dedicate a monument celebrating the 300th anniversary of...
- Julius Richman Park (formerly Echo Park)
- Pelham Bay ParkPelham Bay ParkPelham Bay Park, located in the northeast corner of the New York City borough of The Bronx and extending partially into Westchester County, is at the largest public park in New York City. The section of the park within New York City's borders is more than three times the size of Manhattan's...
(largest single component) - Playground 52Playground 52Playground 52 is a small park in The Bronx. Originally built in the 1950s as a playground for PS-52, the playground suffered decay during the 1970s...
- Saint Mary's Park, Bronx
- University WoodsUniversity WoodsUniversity Woods is a small woodland park in the University Heights neighborhood in the borough of the Bronx, overlooking the Harlem River crested between Sedgwick and Cedar Avenues in New York City...
- Van Cortlandt ParkVan Cortlandt ParkVan Cortlandt Park is a park located in the Bronx in New York City. It is the fourth largest park in New York City, behind Pelham Bay Park, Flushing Meadows Park and Staten Island Greenbelt....
Brooklyn
- Amersfort Park
- Bensonhurst Park
- Breukelen Ballfields Park
- Brower Park
- Bushwick Park
- Byrne Park
- Cadman PlazaCadman PlazaCadman Plaza Park is located on the border between the Brooklyn Heights historic neighborhood and Downtown Brooklyn. It is bounded by Cadman Plaza East and West , and by Brooklyn Bridge on the north and Tillary Street on the south.South of this park, between Tillary and Johnson Streets, lies the...
- Canarsie Beach Park
- Carroll ParkCarroll Gardens, BrooklynCarroll Gardens is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, USA. The area is named for Charles Carroll, a revolutionary war veteran who was also the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence...
- Calvert Vaux Park, formerly known as Dreier-Offerman Park
- Continental Army Plaza
- Dyker Beach Park
- East River State ParkEast River State ParkEast River State Park is a public park located in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The park stretches along the East River near North 9th and 10th Streets, and offers unobstructed views of the Williamsburg Bridge and Midtown Manhattan....
, Williamsburg - Empire-Fulton Ferry State ParkEmpire-Fulton Ferry State ParkEmpire–Fulton Ferry Park, formerly Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, is a park in Brooklyn, New York, United States. The park is located next to the East River, extending north and south of the Brooklyn Bridge...
- Fort Greene ParkFort Greene ParkFort Greene Park is a municipal park in Brooklyn, New York, comprising 30.2 acres .The park includes the high ground where the Continental Army built Fort Putnam during the American Revolutionary War. The site was chosen and the construction supervised by General Nathanael Greene...
- Frank M Charles Memorial Park, Brooklyn
- Gravesend Park
- Herbert Von King Park, Tompkins, Green & Lafayette Avenues
- J.J Byrne ParkOld Stone HouseThe Old Stone House is a 1930 reconstruction--with some original materials--of the Vechte-Cortelyou House, which was destroyed in 1897. The house is located in Brooklyn, New York City, in the Park Slope neighborhood at Fifth Avenue between Third and Fourth Streets along where Gowanus Creek used to...
- Kelly Park
- Leon S Kaiser Playground
- Lincoln Terrace Park
- Linton Park
- Manhattan Beach Park
- Marine ParkMarine Park, BrooklynMarine Park is a public park located in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Its 798 acres surround the westernmost inlet of Jamaica Bay. Most of the land for Marine Park, Brooklyn was donated to New York City to be turned into public park land by the Whitney family in 1920 and by Frederic B....
- McCarren ParkMcCarren ParkMcCarren Park is a public park in New York City, USA. It is located in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, and is bordered by Nassau Avenue, Bayard Street, Lorimer Street and North 12th Street...
- McGolrick ParkMcGolrick ParkMonsignor McGolrick Park is located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, between Driggs Avenue to the south, Russell Street to the west, Nassau Avenue to the north, and Monitor Street to the east.-History:...
- McKinley Park
- Mount Prospect ParkMount Prospect ParkMount Prospect Park is a park in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It includes Mount Prospect, the second highest point in Brooklyn. It is located on Eastern Parkway near Underhill Avenue, close to Grand Army Plaza...
- Owl's Head Park
- Prospect ParkProspect Park (Brooklyn)Prospect Park is a 585-acre public park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn located between Park Slope, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Kensington, Windsor Terrace and Flatbush Avenue, Grand Army Plaza and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden...
- Red Hook Park
- Red Hook Playground
- Seaside Park
- Seth Low Park
- Spring Creek Park
- St. Johns Park
- Sunset ParkSunset Park, BrooklynSunset Park is a neighborhood in the western section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, USA. It is bounded by Greenwood Heights to the north, Borough Park to the east, Bay Ridge to the south, and Upper New York Bay to the west...
- Tompkins Park
Manhattan
- Abingdon Square ParkAbingdon Square ParkAbingdon Square Park is located in the New York City borough of Manhattan in Greenwich Village. The park is bordered by Eighth Avenue, Bank Street, Hudson Street and West 12th Street....
- Albert Capsouto Park (formerly CaVaLa Park)
- Battery Park
- Bennett ParkBennett Park (New York)Bennett Park is a public park in New York City, named for James Gordon Bennett, Sr., the newspaper publisher who launched the New York Herald in 1835...
- Bowling GreenBowling Green (New York City)Bowling Green is a small public park in Lower Manhattan at the foot of Broadway next to the site of the original Dutch fort of New Amsterdam. Built in 1733, originally including a bowling green, it is the oldest public park in New York City and is surrounded by its original 18th century fence. At...
(oldest park in city) - British Memorial GardenBritish Memorial GardenThe British Garden at Hanover Square is located in Hanover Square in downtown Manhattan. It commemorates the 67 British victims of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center...
- Bryant ParkBryant ParkBryant Park is a 9.603 acre privately managed public park located in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and between 40th and 42nd Streets in Midtown Manhattan...
- Carl Schurz ParkCarl Schurz ParkCarl Schurz Park is a 14.9 acre public park on the Upper East Side of New York City, named for German-born Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz in 1910, at the edge of what was then a solidly German-American community of Yorkville....
- Central ParkCentral ParkCentral Park is a public park in the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan...
- City Hall Park
- Collect Pond Park
- Columbus Park
- Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza
- Damrosch Park (Lincoln Center)
- Dante ParkDante ParkDante Park or Dante Square is a park in front of Lincoln Center in New York City, New York.The park was established by Italian-Americans in honor of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. Carlo Barsotti, editor of the paper Il Progresso Italo-Americano, originally wanted to gather funds for a much more...
- DeWitt Clinton ParkDeWitt Clinton ParkDeWitt Clinton Park is a New York City public park in the Hell's Kitchen, New York neighborhood between West 52nd Street and 54th Street and Eleventh Avenue and the West Side Highway in Manhattan....
- Drumgoole PlazaDrumgoole PlazaDrumgoole Plaza is a New York public park sitting under the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, located on Frankfort Street connecting Park Row and Gold Streets, adjacent to the main building of Pace University at One Pace Plaza....
- Duane ParkDuane ParkDuane Park is a small, triangular public urban park located in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The park is bordered by Hudson Street to the east and branches of Duane Street on north and south sides....
- Duffy SquareDuffy SquareDuffy Square is the northern triangle of Times Square in Manhattan, New York City. It is located between 45th and 47th Streets, Broadway and Seventh Avenue and is well known for the TKTS reduced-price theater tickets booth located there....
- East River ParkEast River ParkEast River Park, part of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, is public park located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The park stretches along the East River from Montgomery Street up to 12th Street. The southern entrance boasts good views of the Manhattan Bridge and...
- Finn Square
- Foley SquareFoley SquareFoley Square is a street intersection and green space in the Civic Center neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City and – by extension – the surrounding area, which is dominated by civic buildings. The space is bordered by Worth Street, Centre Street and Lafayette Street and lies...
- Fort Tryon ParkFort Tryon ParkFort Tryon Park is a public park located in the Washington Heights section of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, USA. It is situated on a 67 acre ridge in Upper Manhattan, with a commanding view of the Hudson River, the George Washington Bridge, the New Jersey Palisades and the Harlem River...
- Fort Washington Park
- Gramercy ParkGramercy ParkGramercy Park is a small, fenced-in private park in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park is at the core of both the neighborhood referred to as either Gramercy or Gramercy Park and the Gramercy Park Historic District...
- Hamilton Fish ParkHamilton Fish Park PoolHamilton Fish Park Pool was built by the New York City Parks Department using Works Progress Administration funds. It opened in June 1936. Located in the Lower East Side, the facility includes extensive facilities for filtering and purifying water, underwater lighting, and separate diving and...
- High Line
- Highbridge ParkHighbridge ParkHighbridge Park is located in Washington Heights on the banks of the Harlem River near the northernmost tip of the New York City borough of Manhattan, between 155th Street and Dyckman Street...
- Horace GreeleyHorace GreeleyHorace Greeley was an American newspaper editor, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, a politician, and an outspoken opponent of slavery...
Square - Hudson River ParkHudson River ParkHudson River Park is a waterside park on the Hudson River that extends from 59th Street south to Battery Park in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Bicycle and pedestrian paths, including the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway, span the park north to south, opening up the waterfront for...
- Inwood Hill ParkInwood Hill ParkInwood Hill Park is a city-owned and maintained public park in Inwood, Upper Manhattan, New York City, operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. It stretches along the Hudson River from Dyckman Street to the northern tip of the island. Inwood Hill Park's densely folded,...
- J. Hood Wright Park
- Jackson Square ParkJackson Square ParkJackson Square Park is a .227 acre New York City Park located in the Greenwich Village Historic District just below the intersection of Eighth Avenue and 14th Street...
- John Jay ParkJohn Jay ParkJohn Jay Park is a park in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located between 76th and 78th streets, and between Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive and a short street called Cherokee Place, in Manhattan's Upper East Side...
- Juan Pablo Duarte SquareJuan Pablo Duarte SquareJuan Pablo Duarte Square is a triangular plot in New York City by Sullivan Street, Grand Street, and the Avenue of the Americas at the intersection with Canal Street. The New York State Department of Transportation first developed it and maintained it...
- Liberty Plaza
- Madison Square ParkMadison SquareMadison Square is formed by the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The square was named for James Madison, fourth President of the United States and the principal author of the United States Constitution.The focus of the square is...
- Marcus Garvey Memorial Park
- Morningside Park
- Murphy's Brother's Playground
- Paley ParkPaley ParkPaley Park is a pocket park located at 3 East 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan on the former site of the Stork Club. Designed by the landscape architectural firm of Zion & Breen, it opened May 23, 1967 on the former site of the Stork Club...
- Peter Cooper Park
- Ralph Bunche ParkRalph Bunche ParkRalph Bunche Park is a small municipal public park in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of New York City, at the northwest corner of First Avenue and 42nd Street. It was named in 1979 for the late Ralph Bunche....
- Randalls IslandRandalls Island* Randall's Island* Randalls Island , an island in the Yellowstone River...
-Wards Island - Richard Tucker Square
- Riverbank State ParkRiverbank State ParkRiverbank State Park is a park built on the top of a sewage treatment facility on the Hudson River, in the New York City borough of Manhattan....
- Riverside ParkRiverside Park (Manhattan)Riverside Park is a scenic waterfront public park on the Upper West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, operated and maintained by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. The park consists of a narrow four-mile strip of land between the Hudson River and the gently...
- Robert Moses PlaygroundRobert Moses PlaygroundRobert Moses Playground is a playground and park in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located in the Murray Hill neighborhood on First Avenue between 41st and 42nd streets, immediately south of the United Nations Headquarters...
(different from the two Robert Moses State ParkRobert Moses State ParkRobert Moses State Park can refer to two state parks in New York:*Robert Moses State Park on Fire Island, on the southern shore of Long Island*Robert Moses State Park on the Saint Lawrence River in northern New York...
s outside New York City) - Roosevelt Triangle
- Sakura ParkSakura ParkSakura Park is a public park, located at the northern-tip of Morningside Heights, New York City. Sandwiched between Riverside Church on the south, the Manhattan School of Music on the east, Grants Tomb on the west, and International House on its northern side, it is a small, but historic, piece of...
- Samuel N. Bennerson 2nd Playground
- Sara Delano Roosevelt ParkSara Delano Roosevelt ParkSara Delano Roosevelt Park is a park in the Lower East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. The park, named after Sara Roosevelt, the mother of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, stretches north-south between East Houston Street on the Lower East Side and Canal Street in Chinatown,...
- Septuagesimo UnoSeptuagesimo UnoSeptuagesimo Uno is a park in the Upper West Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located on 71st Street between West End Avenue to the west and the intersection of Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue to the east. The park's name means seventy-first in Latin...
- Sheridan Square
- Sherman SquareSherman SquareSherman Square is a diminutive public space bounded by Broadway, Amsterdam Avenue and West 70th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in New York City...
- St. Nicholas ParkSt. Nicholas ParkSaint Nicholas Park is a New York City public park located in Harlem at the intersection of Manhattan neighborhoods Hamilton Heights and Manhattanville. The nearly park is contained by 141st Street to the north, 128th Street to the south, St. Nicholas Terrace to the west, and St. Nicholas Avenue...
- Straus ParkIsidor StrausIsidor Straus —a German Jewish American—was co-owner of the Macy's department store with his brother Nathan. He also served briefly as a member of the United States House of Representatives...
- Stuyvesant SquareStuyvesant Square__notoc__Stuyvesant Square is a park in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located between 15th Street and 17th Street and Rutherford Place and Nathan D. Perlman Place, formerly Livingston Place. Second Avenue divides the park into two halves, east and west, and each half is surrounded by the...
- Swindler Cove Park
- Theodore Roosevelt Park
- Thomas Paine Park
- Tompkins Square ParkTompkins Square ParkTompkins Square Park is a 10.5 acre public park in the Alphabet City section of the East Village neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is square in shape, and is bounded on the north by East 10th Street, on the east by Avenue B, on the south by East 7th Street, and on the...
- Tribeca Park (also known as Beach Street Park)
- Union SquareUnion Square (New York City)Union Square is a public square in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York.It is an important and historic intersection, located where Broadway and the former Bowery Road – now Fourth Avenue – came together in the early 19th century; its name celebrates neither the...
- Verdi SquareVerdi SquareVerdi Square is a small triangle of land enclosed by a railing, located on Manhattan's Upper West Side, between 72nd Street and 73rd Street on the south and north, and Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue on the west and east. On the south the square fronts West 72nd Street; across the street to the...
- Washington Market ParkWashington Market ParkWashington Market Park is an urban park located in the TriBeCa neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. The park, which is bounded by Greenwich, Chambers, and West Streets, covers...
- Washington Square ParkWashington Square ParkWashington Square Park is one of the best-known of New York City's 1,900 public parks. At 9.75 acres , it is a landmark in the Manhattan neighborhood of Greenwich Village, as well as a meeting place and center for cultural activity...
- Winston Churchill Park
- Worldwide PlazaOne Worldwide PlazaOne Worldwide Plaza is part of a three-building, mixed-use commercial and residential complex completed in 1989, in the New York City borough of Manhattan, known collectively as Worldwide Plaza. One Worldwide Plaza is a commercial office tower on Eighth Avenue...
- Zuccotti ParkZuccotti ParkZuccotti Park, formerly called Liberty Plaza Park, is a publicly accessible park in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It is a controlled by Brookfield Properties. The park was created in 1968 by Pittsburgh-based United States Steel, after the property owners negotiated its creation with city...
Queens
- Alley Pond ParkAlley Pond ParkAlley Pond Park is the second-largest public park in Queens, New York. It occupies , most of it acquired and cleared by the city in 1929, as authorized by a resolution of the New York City Board of Estimate in 1927. The park is bordered to the east by Douglaston, to the west by Bayside, to the...
- Astoria ParkAstoria ParkAstoria Park, a park located along the East River in the New York City borough of Queens, contains one of the largest open spaces in Queens. The park is operated and maintained by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Situated in Astoria and adjacent to the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge...
- Baisley Pond Park
- Brookville Park
- Clearview Park
- Cunningham ParkCunningham ParkCunningham Park is a park in the New York City borough of Queens. The park lies between the Grand Central Parkway to the south and the Long Island Expressway, and is bifurcated by the Clearview Expressway...
- Doughboy ParkDoughboy ParkDoughboy Park is a New York City public park in the Woodside neighborhood of Queens. It is located on a hilly parcel of land between Skillman Avenue and Woodside Avenue, and between 54th Street and 56th Street....
- Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
- Forest Park
- Frank Golden Memorial Park
- Jacob Riis ParkJacob Riis ParkJacob Riis Park in the New York City borough of Queens, is part of the Jamaica Bay Unit of the Gateway National Recreation Area, and is managed by the National Park Service . It lies at the foot of the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge, toward the southwestern end the Rockaway Peninsula,...
(NPS - Gateway National Recreation AreaGateway National Recreation AreaGateway National Recreation Area is a National Recreation Area in the Port of New York and New Jersey. Scattered over Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island, New York and Monmouth County, New Jersey, it provides recreational opportunities that are rare for a dense urban environment, including ocean...
) - Juniper Valley ParkJuniper Valley ParkJuniper Valley Park is a public park located within Middle Village, Queens, New York, United States. The park's offer tennis, handball, basketball and bocce courts, as well as seven baseball fields, and a quarter-mile running track around a turf football/soccer field...
- Kissena ParkKissena ParkKissena Park is a large park located in the neighborhood of Flushing in the New York City borough of Queens, along Kissena Creek which formerly flowed into the Flushing River. It is bordered on the west by Kissena Boulevard; on the north by Rose, Oak, Underhill, and Lithonia Avenues; on the east...
- Liberty Park
- Little Bay Park
- Major Mark Park
- Maurice Park
- Oakland Lake
- Roy Wilkens Park
- Rainey Park
- Rufus King Park
- Springfield Park
Staten Island
- Aesop Park
- Amundsen Circle
- Austen House ParkAlice Austen HouseThe Alice Austen House, also known as Clear Comfort, is located at 2 Hylan Boulevard in the Rosebank section of Staten Island, New York City, New York. It was home of Alice Austen, a photographer, for most of her lifetime, and is now a museum and a member of the Historic House Trust...
- Bloomingdale ParkBloomingdale ParkBloomingdale Park is a park on the South Shore of Staten Island. It is located in the Prince's Bay neighborhood, and is bounded on the north by Ramona Avenue, on the west by Bloomingdale Road, on the east by Lenevar Avenue, and on the south by Drumgoole Road West and the Korean War Veterans Parkway...
- Blue Heron Park PreserveBlue Heron Park PreserveBlue Heron Park Preserve is a nature refuge on Staten Island, New York which has various natural areas including meadows, kettle ponds, freshwater streams and marshes, and woodlands...
- Bradys Park
- Buono BeachBuono BeachBuono Beach is a shoreline-public park in the New York City borough of Staten Island, in the neighborhood of Rosebank, at the foot of Hylan Boulevard. Buono Beach borders New York Harbor.-History:...
- Conference House ParkConference House ParkConference House Park is a park in the Tottenville section of Staten Island, New York, one of the boroughs of New York City. The park is named after the historic Conference House a c.1680 stone manor house in which a peace conference was initiated on September 11, 1776 by Lord Howe representing the...
- Clove Lakes ParkClove Lakes ParkClove Lakes Park is a public park located in the New York City borough of Staten Island, in the neighborhood of Sunnyside.-Brief overview:A protected Forever Wild site because of its valuable ecological assets, Clove Lakes Park has a rich natural history and a few remnants of the past that remain...
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk
- Fresh Kills ParkFresh Kills LandfillThe Fresh Kills Landfill was a landfill covering in the New York City borough of Staten Island in the United States. The name comes from the landfill's location along the banks of the Fresh Kills estuary in western Staten Island...
- Great Kills ParkGreat Kills ParkGreat Kills Park in Great Kills, Staten Island is a part of the Staten Island unit of Gateway National Recreation Area, part of the National Park System it covers an area of approximately of salt marsh, beach and woodlands stretching along two miles of Staten Island's south shore.Great Kills...
(NPS - Gateway National Recreation AreaGateway National Recreation AreaGateway National Recreation Area is a National Recreation Area in the Port of New York and New Jersey. Scattered over Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island, New York and Monmouth County, New Jersey, it provides recreational opportunities that are rare for a dense urban environment, including ocean...
) - High Rock Park Preserve
- Lemon Creek Park
- Long Pond ParkLong Pond ParkLong Pond Park is a park preserve on the South Shore of Staten Island. It is approximately in size and consists mainly of woodlands and wetlands that surround Long Pond, for which the park is named. Long Pond Park is roughly bounded by Hylan Boulevard on the south, Page Avenue on the west, Amboy...
- Midland Beach
- Miller FieldMiller Field (Staten Island)Miller Field was a United States Air Force facility on Staten Island, New York, in New Dorp. It was founded in November 1919 and completed in 1921...
- Silver Lake ParkSilver Lake, Staten IslandSilver Lake is the name of both a reservoir and an adjacent neighborhood on Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City, USA.Located inside Silver Lake Park, the first city park to be established on Staten Island, Silver Lake was created in 1917 when water was brought there from the...
- The GreenbeltStaten Island GreenbeltThe Staten Island Greenbelt is a system of contiguous public parkland and natural areas in the central hills of the New York City borough of Staten Island...
- South BeachSouth Beach, Staten IslandSouth Beach is the name of a neighborhood located on the East Shore of Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City, USA. It is situated immediately to the south of the Staten Island side of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge...
- Tappen ParkTappen ParkTappen Park is a small park and square in the Stapleton neighborhood of Staten Island, New York. It is bounded by Bay Street on the east, Water Street on the north, and Canal Street on the south and west. It is named for First World War veteran James Tappen...
- Willowbrook ParkWillowbrook ParkWillowbrook Park is a recreational park in Staten Island's neighborhood of Willowbrook. The public park provides baseball fields, a playground, and a pond. The Staten Island Hotel can be seen from the park....
- Wolfe's Pond ParkWolfe's Pond ParkWolfe's Pond Park is a large public park located on the South Shore of Staten Island. It is bounded on the north by the Staten Island Railway, on the west by Holten Avenue, on the south by Raritan Bay, and on the east by Chisolm Street, Luten Avenue, and Cornelia Avenue, which is also the main...