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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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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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Park Odyssey: Memorial Gore

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Visiting the New York City parks. Every last one of them. Monday, July 27, 2015. Just to keep things philologically interesting, Brooklyn's park pioneers denoted a couple of tiny parks with the word "gore" instead of (or in addition to) "park.". I first encountered the term two years ago when I discovered Cuyler Gore (Park). In Fort Greene. And the other day on my way to visit Cooper Park. I happened upon Memorial Gore. Right now at least, this Williamsburg gore is the less welcoming of the two. The memo...

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Park Odyssey: August 2015

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Visiting the New York City parks. Every last one of them. Friday, August 28, 2015. Twin Oaks Seguine Burke Plantation (Seguine Mansion). As advertised in its latest brochure, the Seguine Mansion. Is "one of the grandest 19th century homes on Staten Island." But together with its contents and its grounds, this former farmhouse in the Prince's Bay neighborhood near the island's south shore is a good deal more than that. George Burke admires "Judith" by Rembrandt Peale at Seguine Mansion. Now hold sway over...

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Park Odyssey: St. Nicholas Park and Hamilton Grange

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Visiting the New York City parks. Every last one of them. Friday, November 18, 2011. St Nicholas Park and Hamilton Grange. Is notable for among other things its steep terrain, but since Alexander Hamilton's 210-year-old house moved in, there's more reason to visit. Though perhaps that's not entirely fair to the park, which does have its own society and website. Describing it as "[f]orged by nature in rugged masses of rock.". The city originally acquired some of the land that's now St. Nicholas Park f...

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Park Odyssey: Cunningham Park and the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway

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Visiting the New York City parks. Every last one of them. Sunday, August 2, 2015. Cunningham Park and the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway. Exploring Alley Pond Park last summer. I came upon the historic old Vanderbilt Motor Parkway. Also known as the Long Island Motor Parkway. According to the Parks Department. The strip between the modern pavement and the leaves looks like the original roadbed. Some of the original roadside posts remain, too. Here's the entrance from the eastern end, in Alley Pond Park. When I...

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Park Odyssey: High Line, Northern Section

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Visiting the New York City parks. Every last one of them. Saturday, November 1, 2014. High Line, Northern Section. In September we happened to visit the High Line. On the weekend the northernmost section opened to the public for the first time. Though the final transformation still awaited some finishing touches, the change from the overgrown trackbed we'd toured in the summer of 2013. To landscaped park was mostly complete. We headed north and approached the westward turn at W. 30th Street:. New York Ci...