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Park Odyssey: Governor's Island: Nolan Park
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Visiting the New York City parks. Every last one of them. Friday, August 14, 2015. Governor's Island: Nolan Park. After my first visit to Governor's Island. Five years ago, I worried that all the development being planned might ruin it. I liked the charm of its "unfinished, half-ghost-town state.". I'm beginning my informal Governors Island parks survey at Nolan Park. Because a concert here by the Imani Winds. Was the immediate excuse for our most recent excursion to the island. We visited other parts of...
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Park Odyssey: Septuagesimo Uno – NYC's Smallest Park?
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Visiting the New York City parks. Every last one of them. Monday, January 13, 2014. Septuagesimo Uno – NYC's Smallest Park? Has something of the feel of a medieval alley (and something of the moldy smell too). According to the Parks Department website. Originally and boringly known as "71st Street Plot," the park certainly deserved a name change. Just as its giant cousin a few blocks away is splashed with banners seeking contributions to the Central Park Conservancy. If you have a little extra time and y...
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Park Odyssey: Franz Sigel Park
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Visiting the New York City parks. Every last one of them. Monday, June 1, 2015. Another park that's an easy walk from Yankee Stadium in The Bronx is Franz Sigel Park. The rockiest and most forested of the area's green spaces (at least those you can enter without sneaking or blasting your way in). To get there I started at Joyce Kilmer Park. And the Bronx Supreme Court at 161st Street, and walked down Walton Avenue, which, like Broadway in Manhattan, was once an Indian path. Franz Sigel Park's modest heig...
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Park Odyssey: Stuyvesant Oval and a Cormorant at Stuyvesant Cove
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Visiting the New York City parks. Every last one of them. Saturday, June 13, 2015. Stuyvesant Oval and a Cormorant at Stuyvesant Cove. With apologies to the good people of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village. On Manhattan's East Side, I here present to all and sundry your great pastoral oval. Your historic apartment complexes are on private grounds, I know. But since anyone can walk through any day, Stuyvesant Oval. You call it an Oval. I call it a Park. Back in 2010. How the years fly! Musicians of...
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Prospect: A Year in the Park: Seasons
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Prospect: A Year in the Park. Daily discoveries in the mystical green heart of Brooklyn. January 20, 2017. Last Sunday, the mid-January sun, already stronger, melted much of the snowcap on the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. A dark and rainy week followed, culminating in a dreaded inauguration; the timeless peace of the Japanese Garden is a good tonic. So is the beauty of evergreens capped with white. Botanical trivia: the word. From the Latin . You identify this one. Heres to a new era, on thin ice. Alone; its...
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Prospect: A Year in the Park: Botany
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Prospect: A Year in the Park. Daily discoveries in the mystical green heart of Brooklyn. January 20, 2017. Last Sunday, the mid-January sun, already stronger, melted much of the snowcap on the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. A dark and rainy week followed, culminating in a dreaded inauguration; the timeless peace of the Japanese Garden is a good tonic. So is the beauty of evergreens capped with white. Botanical trivia: the word. From the Latin . You identify this one. Heres to a new era, on thin ice. If you rea...
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Prospect Park Advocate: Other Websites
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Park patrons dedicated to a better quality of life in Brooklyn parks. Tuesday, June 08, 2010. For regularly updated postings, check out CREDO-NY. And A Walk in the Park. Dogs and Parks Info. ASPCA and Unleashed Dogs. Animal Bite Report Form. Parks Rules and Regulations.
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Park Odyssey: Cuyler Gore
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Visiting the New York City parks. Every last one of them. Sunday, July 7, 2013. I'm always glad to learn a new four-letter word. A gore, it turns out, is a triangular patch of land. Parks all over New York City could be called gores, including quite a few "Squares." But only a few actually bear the "gore" designation. One is Cuyler Gore. Or Cuyler Gore Park, where I stopped in after my excursion to the nearby and much more famous Fort Greene Park. The following intriguing notation wasn't intriguing enoug...
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