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Parks and Greenspace New York City Map Julius Schorzman
A map showing major greenspaces in New York City: 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
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Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States.
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A pigeon at Bryant Park

This is a list of New York City parks. Three entities manage parks within New York City, each with its own responsibilities:

The city has 28,000 acres (113 km2) of municipal parkland and 14 miles (22 km) of public municipal beaches. Major municipal parks include Central Park, Prospect Park, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, and Forest Park. The largest is Pelham Bay Park, followed by the Staten Island Greenbelt and Van Cortlandt Park. There are also many smaller but historically significant parks in New York City, such as Battery Park, Bryant Park, Madison Square Park, Union Square Park, and Washington Square Park.

Additionally, some parks, most notably Gramercy Park, are privately owned and managed. Access to these private parks may be restricted.

The City Parks Foundation offers more than 1200 free performing arts events in parks across the city each year, including Central Park Summerstage, the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival and dance, theater, and children's arts festivals.

Top ten parks by area

  1. Pelham Bay Park, Bronx - 2,772 acres (11.22 km2)
  2. Greenbelt, Staten Island - 2,316 acres (9.37 km2)
  3. Freshkills Park, Staten Island - 2,200 acres (8.9 km2)
  4. Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx - 1,146 acres (4.64 km2)
  5. Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens - 897 acres (3.63 km2)
  6. Central Park, Manhattan - 843 acres (3.41 km2)
  7. Marine Park, Brooklyn - 798 acres (3.23 km2)
  8. Bronx Park, Bronx - 718 acres (2.91 km2)
  9. Alley Pond Park, Queens - 655 acres (2.65 km2)
  10. Forest Park, Queens - 544 acres (2.20 km2)

While Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is larger than any of the parks listed above, at 9,155 acres (37.05 km2), it is not listed in the above rankings since it is a wildlife refuge and not an active-use park.

List of parks by borough

The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation maintains a complete list of all parks.

The Bronx

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Joyce Kilmer Park
Jackson Av 144th walkway Pt Morris RR jeh
St Mary's Park

East Bronx

West Bronx

South Bronx

A sub-section of West Bronx.

Brooklyn

Bettina Gravesend Bay jeh
Calvert Vaux Park
Washington at Roebling n S 5th Billyburg jeh
Continental Army Plaza
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Dreier-Offerman Park
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Seaside - Asser Levy park
  • 100% Playground
  • Adam Yauch Park
  • Admiral Triangle
  • Aimee Triangle
  • Alben Square
  • Albermarle Playground
  • Albert Lysander Parham Playground
  • American Playground
  • Amersfort Park
  • American Veterans Memorial Pier
  • Amersfort Park
  • Andries Playground
  • Anthony Chiarantano Park
  • Arbor Place (Brooklyn)
  • Asser Levy Park
  • Avenue R Mall
  • Badame Sessa Memorial Square
  • Banneker Playground
  • Bar and Grill Park
  • Bartel-Pritchard Square
  • Bartlett Playground
  • Bath Beach Park
  • Bath Playground
  • Bayview Playground
  • Beattie Square
  • Beaver Noll Park
  • Bedford Playground
  • Belmont Playground
  • Benson Playground
  • Bergen Beach Playground
  • Berry Playground
  • Berriman Playground
  • Betsy Head Park
  • Betty Carter Park
  • Bensonhurst Park
  • Bildersee Playground
  • Bill Brown Memorial Playground
  • Boerum Park
  • Boulevard Grove (Brooklyn)
  • Boyland Park (Brooklyn)
  • Breukelen Ballfields Park
  • Brevoort Playground
  • Brighton Beach Park
  • Brighton Playground
  • Brooklyn Anchorage Plaza
  • Brooklyn Bears Rockwell Plaza Garden
  • Brooklyn Botanic Garden
  • Brooklyn Bridge Park
  • Brooklyn Heights Promenade
  • Brooklyn–Queens Greenway
  • Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway
  • Brower Park
  • Brownsville I Ura Park
  • Brownsville Playground
  • Bush Terminal Park
  • Bushwick Fields
  • Bushwick Inlet Park
  • Bushwick Playground
  • Butterfly Gardens (Brooklyn)
  • Cadman Plaza
  • Calvert Vaux Park
  • Campiz Playground
  • Canarsie Park
  • Callahan-Kelly Playground
  • Carroll Park
  • Century Playground
  • Captain John McKenna IV Park
  • Captain Oakley Junior Square
  • Carroll Park
  • Carver Playground
  • Charlie's Place
  • Chester Playground
  • Chiarantano Playground
  • City Line Park
  • Classon Playground
  • Classon Triangle
  • Clumber Corner
  • Cobble Hill Park
  • Coffey Park
  • Cohn Triangle
  • Colonel David Marcus Memorial Playground
  • Columbus Park
  • Commodore Barry Park
  • Cough Triangle
  • Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk
  • Coney Island Creek Park
  • Conners Square
  • Continental Army Plaza
  • Cooper Park (Brooklyn)
  • Corporal Wiltshire Triangle
  • Cosmo Barone Triangle
  • Crispus Attucks Playground
  • Cuite Park
  • Curtis Park
  • Cutinella Triangle
  • Cuyler Park
  • Cypress Hills Playground
  • Dahill Triangle
  • David A Fox Playground
  • David Ruggles Playground
  • De Diego Playground
  • Dean Playground
  • Decatur Playground
  • DeKalb Playground
  • Detective Joseph Mayrose Park
  • DiGilio Playground
  • Dimattina Playground
  • Dodger Playground
  • Domino Park
  • Duke Park
  • Dyker Beach Park
  • Dyker Heights Playground
  • Dyker Beach Park and Golf Course
  • East Fourth Street Garden
  • Eastern Park
  • Edmonds Playground
  • El-Shabazz Playground
  • Eleanor Roosevelt Playground
  • Elijah Stroud Playground
  • Elton Playground
  • Ennis Park
  • Epiphany Playground
  • Ericsson Playground
  • Ethan Allen Playground
  • Eugenio Maria De Hostos Playground
  • Evergreen Playground
  • Father Giorgio Triangle
  • Father Popieluszko Square
  • Fermi Playground
  • Fidelity Memorial Park
  • Fidler-Wyckoff House Park
  • Fish Playground
  • Floyd Patterson Field
  • Floyd Bennett Field (NPS - Gateway National Recreation Area)
  • Fort Greene Park
  • Fort Hamilton Park
  • Fort Hamilton Plaza
  • Fraser Square
  • Freedom Square
  • Four Sparrow Marsh
  • Fresh Creek Nature Preserve
  • Friends Field
  • Fulton Park
  • Galapo Playground
  • Garden of Union
  • Garden Playground
  • Garibaldi Playground
  • Garibaldi Square
  • Gateway Triangle
  • George Walker Junior Playground
  • Georgia Avenue Garden
  • Gethsemane Garden (Brooklyn)
  • Glenwood Playground
  • Golconda Playground
  • Goodwin Gardens
  • Gowanus Greenway
  • Gowanus Playground
  • Grace Playground
  • Grady Playground
  • Grand Ferry Park
  • Grant Gore Triangle
  • Gravesend Park
  • Gravesend Square
  • Green Central Knoll
  • Greenwood Playground
  • Hancock Playground
  • Harmony Park
  • Harmony Triangle
  • Harry Chapin Playground
  • Harry Maze Memorial Park
  • Hattie Carthan Garden
  • Hattie Carthan Playground
  • Hawthorne Field
  • Heckscher Playground (Brooklyn)
  • Herbert Von King Park
  • Heffernan Square
  • Heisser Triangle
  • Highland Park
  • Hillside Park
  • Holy Name Square
  • Homecrest Playground
  • Hot Spot Tot Lot
  • Houston Playground
  • Howard Playground
  • Hull Street Garden
  • Human Compass Garden
  • Institute Park (Brooklyn)
  • Irving Square Park
  • Israel Putnam Playground
  • Jackie Robinson Park (Brooklyn) - Bedstuy
  • Jackie Robinson Park Playground - Crown Heights
  • Jacob Joffe Park
  • Jacob's Ladder Playground
  • Jefferson Field
  • Jerome Playground
  • Jesse And Charles Dome Playground
  • Jesse Owens Playground
  • JJ Byrne Park
  • John D'Emic Senior Memorial Park
  • John J. Carty Park
  • John Paul Jones Park
  • Kaiser Park
  • Kelly Park
  • Kennedy-King Playground
  • KeySpan Park
  • Kosciuszko Pool
  • Lady Moody Triangle
  • Lafayette Gardens Playground
  • Lafayette Playground
  • Lafayette Playground
  • Leif Ericson Park 7 Square
  • Lentol Garden
  • Lentol Triangle
  • Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino Park
  • Lieutenant William E Coffey Square
  • Lincoln Terrace Park
  • Linden Park
  • Lindower Park
  • Lindsay Triangle
  • Linwood Playground
  • Lion's Pride Playground
  • Lithuania Square
  • Livonia Playground
  • Lott Park
  • Louis Valentino Junior Park
  • Lowry Triangle
  • Lt. Federico Narvaez Tot Lot
  • Macri Triangle
  • Manhattan Beach Park
  • Marc And Jason's Playground
  • Marcy Green Center
  • Marcy Green North
  • Marcy Green South
  • Maria Hernandez Park
  • Marine Park
  • Marion-Hopkinson Playground
  • Marlboro Playground
  • Marsha P. Johnson State Park (NYSP)
  • Martin Luther Playground
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Playground aka Linton Park
  • Martinez Playground
  • McCarren Park
  • McDonald Playground
  • McDonald Square
  • McDonald Triangle
  • McGolrick Park
  • McKinley Park
  • Mcguire Fields
  • McLaughlin Park
  • Mellett Playground
  • Memorial Gore
  • Meucci Square
  • Middleton Playground
  • Milestone Park
  • Monastery Square
  • Monsignor Crawford Field
  • Monsignor McGolrick Park
  • Mother Cabrini Park
  • Mount Carmel Square
  • Mount Prospect Park
  • Narrows Botanical Gardens
  • Nautilus Playground
  • Nehemiah Park
  • Newport Playground
  • Newton Barge Terminal Playground
  • Nicholas A Brizzi Playground
  • North Pacific Playground
  • Nostrand Playground
  • Ocean Hill Playground
  • Onehundred Percent Playground
  • Oracle Playground
  • Orient Grove
  • Owl's Head Park
  • Oxport Playground
  • Pacific Playground
  • Paerdegat Basin Park
  • Paerdegat Park
  • Parade Ground (Flatbush, Brooklyn)
  • Park Slope Playground
  • Parkside Playground
  • Payne Park (Brooklyn)
  • Penn Triangle
  • Person Square
  • Pierrepont Playground
  • Pigeon Plaza
  • Pink Playground
  • Playground Three Forty
  • Police Officer Reinaldo Salgado Playground
  • Powell Playground
  • Power Playground
  • Pratt Playground
  • Private First Class Thomas Norton Memorial Playground
  • Private Sonsire Triangle
  • Prospect Park
  • Public School 1 Playground
  • Public School 125 Playground
  • Public School 4 Paradise Garden
  • Pulaski Playground
  • Quaker Parrot Park at the Dust Bowl
  • Rachel Haber Cohen Playground
  • Railroad Playground
  • Rainbow Playground
  • Ramirez Playground
  • Red Hook Park
  • Remsen Playground
  • Right Triangle Playground
  • Robert E. Venable Park
  • Roberto Clemente Ballfield
  • Rodney Park Center
  • Rodney Park North
  • Rodney Park South
  • Rodney Playground Center
  • Rodney Playground North
  • Rodney Playground South
  • Roebling Playground
  • Rolf Henry Playground
  • Russell Pederson Playground
  • Saint Andrews Playground
  • St. Johns Park
  • Saint Nicholas-Olive Street Garden
  • Saint Nicholas-Powers Street Garden
  • Sam Leggio Triangle
  • Samuel Goldberg Triangle
  • Saratoga Park
  • Saratoga Ballfields
  • Sarsfield Playground
  • Scarangella Park
  • Schenk Playground
  • Seeley Park
  • Sergeant Joyce Kilmer Triangle
  • Sergeant William Dougherty Playground
  • Seth Low Playground
  • Sheepshead Playground
  • Shore Park and Parkway
  • Sid Luckman Field
  • Sixteen Trees Triangle
  • Sledge Playground
  • Slope Park
  • Sobel Green
  • Sperandeo Brothers Playground
  • Spring Creek Park
  • Stephen A Rudd Playground
  • Sternberg Park
  • Steuben Playground
  • Stockton Playground
  • Stuyvesant Park
  • Success Garden
  • Sumner Playground
  • Sunset Park
  • Taaffe Playground
  • Ten Eyck Plaza
  • Terrapin Playground
  • The Amazing Garden
  • Thomas Greene Playground
  • Tiger Playground
  • Tilden Playground
  • Todd Memorial Square
  • Trinity Park
  • Trust Triangle
  • Umma Park
  • Under The Tracks Playground
  • Underwood Park
  • University Plaza
  • Van Dyke Playground
  • Van Voorhees Park
  • Vincent V Abate Playground
  • Walt Whitman Park
  • Washington Park
  • Washington Hall Park
  • Washington Plaza (Brooklyn)
  • Weeksville Playground
  • Weinburg Triangle
  • West Playground
  • Whitman Park (Brooklyn)
  • William Sunners Playground
  • Willoughby Playground
  • Wilson Playground
  • Wingate Park
  • WNYC Transmitter Park
  • Woodruff Playground
  • Zion Triangle

Manhattan

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Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza
Xiangqi in Columbus Park
Columbus Park
Tribeca Park April jeh
Tribeca Park

Queens

Goose Pond in Tilly Park jeh
Captain Tilly Park
King Manor NW jeh
Rufus King Park

Staten Island

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Buono Beach

* Denotes playgrounds jointly operated with the New York City Department of Education.

List of former parks by borough

Manhattan

See also

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