Favourite NYC Major Open Space

http://www.brorson.com/M4Bus/FortTryonPlaque2.jpg

I'm sorry, can you repeat the question?

Curses, I forgot riverside, where I first played softball, aged 9.

Van Courtland Park

that's Van Cortlandt!

what were you doing in Riverside, Ed aged 9?

playing softball

Some neighborhood family friends moved to NYC in the 80s and we visited them a couple of times.

does anyone know anything about the rumor that they are going to open a shake shack in central park by the ANMH?

it's not a rumor. it's not gonna be open til after summer, tho, i don't think.

hey, if we all vote for the park we can walk to, this thing will be a foregone conclusion and we won't be actually evaluating the quality of the park. i guess i'm not voting prospect then.

quality typically has little to do with what is someone's favorite.

what about red hook ballfields
i want to vote for the park with the best food.

i can walk to prospect but its central all the way for me

best food you say, must investigate.

Torn between Flushing meadows for the worlds fair stuff, central park for the landscape design and Pelham bay for the wildness (especially at the north end around the Bartow-Pell mansion). I like Prospect Park well enough but I don't think I have seen it at it's best.

prospect park will be at its best in approximately 2, 3 weeks.

flushing meadows is kind of terrible. there is a lot of crazy world's fair crap there, it's true, but robert moses vs. olmsted is no contest on atmosphere and parkiness.

like, flushing meadows is great for walking around and pointing at things and saying "whoa that is crazy/ugly/what the hell is that?" and watching cricket players and catching snakehead fish (apparently) but it's not a place to relax and feel at one with nature.

i voted for pelham bay even though i think that was one of robt moses'. my grandma lived near there and i always thought it was spectacular.

i gotta go there this summer

Robert Moses State Park!

Closest super-decent beach to the city, with no boardwalk or anything. Kind of surreal. Much nicer than Coney Island or Rockaways.

http://www.nysparks.com/parks/info.asp?parkID=45

dan i LOVE that beach but it isn't in NYC

it is beautiful. just about 20 miles farther than jones beach but such a different feeling. the bridges going out there are amazing.

The High Line, though I'm guessing I'll like it a lot less as it becomes a more "official" open space:

http://www.thehighline.org/

okay that's pretty awesome.

Indeed it is.

we are missing Fort Tryon and Inwood Hill Parks. does Battery Park count?

the picture i posted upthread is from fort tryon park. it's a nice place.

I want to eat at the Red Hook ballfields.

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I would like to eat at the red hook ballfields and not get huarache all over myself like the last time

I am visiting family in NY in June.... where's the best place to hang out, go for a run, see stuff etc..?

I got a hurache the one time I went and was like, oh, this salsa looks good, I'll try some, wow, it's spicy, still itt looks fresh and tasty so I'll pour it all over the huarache, then I could barely eat the damn thing it was so spicy. I got a Pupusa that didn't blow me, though there's a Salvadoran rest. near my house that specializes in them so I'll try that. I also got a glass of hibiscus juice from the lady selling shrimp cervice in paper dixie cups, those were both really good.

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Central Park (one corner at least)

http://web.mac.com/ben.gardner/iWeb/Site/Nabe%202_files/P1000056.jpg
http://web.mac.com/ben.gardner/iWeb/Site/Nabe%202_files/P1000073.jpg

http://web.mac.com/ben.gardner/iWeb/Site/Nabe%202_files/P1000063.jpg http://web.mac.com/ben.gardner/iWeb/Site/Nabe%202_files/P1000074.jpg

http://web.mac.com/ben.gardner/iWeb/Site/Nabe%202_files/P1000064.jpg

http://web.mac.com/ben.gardner/iWeb/Site/Nabe%202_files/P1000068.jpg

http://web.mac.com/ben.gardner/iWeb/Site/Nabe%202_files/P1000070.jpg http://web.mac.com/ben.gardner/iWeb/Site/Nabe%202_files/P1000074.jpg

uh, http://web.mac.com/ben.gardner/iWeb/Site/Nabe%202_files/P1000075.jpg

http://web.mac.com/ben.gardner/iWeb/Site/Nabe%202_files/P1000071.jpg

http://web.mac.com/ben.gardner/iWeb/Site/Nabe%202_files/P1000060.jpg

nice--but some of those pictures are pretty contrasty

guilty

Finally made up it to Fort Tryon last summer -- it's quite nice there!

wow - http://www.centralparknyc.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7320

High Line opens! http://www.archdaily.com/24362/the-new-york-high-line-officially-open/

we checked out 'part II' today...ya know I like the idea behind high line so much but at this point it's gotta be one of the most annoying places in the city. it's a shame it's not in the bronx or something, the original paris one is nice and quiet cause it's not really centrally located. (though who knows maybe it's filled with new yorker tourists now)

also the promenade plantee has a very tasteful design and not sloping concrete bullshit. but french people have always been better at this.

perhaps you should follow my lead on films and not go on opening weekend when all the yahoos show up.

or just do promenade wit zee Surrender Minkies

Riverside Park

If this poll were today I'd probably vote Ft. Tryon Park or Brooklyn Bridge Park, neither of which were listed and the latter of which didn't exist yet.

The High Line is sort of more an idea of a park than a park.

eh the yahoos run the place. it wasn't much different than it was on a normal 'part I' day

anyway my favs are prospect, riverside, gantry and astoria.

also my friend works for them and said their last fundraiser was 3k a head and filled with goldman sachs people.

that's a good thing, right? yielding some sorta public positive from those motherfuckers

eh it's good in the same way that it's 'good' that they show up at obama fundraisers

we even let the wage slaves walk around on it after we leave.

anyone not voting central i feel like is just ignorant or trolling, talk abt having one of the best works of art ever right there and you can walk around in it

could make an argument for central park as the single best use of land in america but I don't think that's enough to make it anyone's favorite park....or even a great place to hang out, a lot of the time. even the landscape design is only arguably olmsted's best.

weel yeah i think no offense but youre sort of the poster child of wanting to yelp abt life or w/e, first you have to be open and experience something, that leads to clear seeing, then you can have an opinion

haha sry that was overly harsh, didnt mean it #yelp

eh I work a block from central park, end up there every other day and ~experience it~ more than the rest of these combined. it's just not my favorite place on this list.

central park was better when you could buy weed there

j/k

parts of central park are a little too manicured for my taste but I really was kidding (for once) about the old-school nostalgia. you could buy weed there and also get mugged...

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If this poll were today I'd probably vote Ft. Tryon Park or Brooklyn Bridge Park, neither of which were listed and the latter of which didn't exist yet.

― hated old moniker, too tired to think of a clever new one (Hurting 2), Saturday, June 11, 2011 3:08 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

weel yeah i think no offense but youre sort of the poster child of wanting to yelp abt life or w/e, first you have to be open and experience something, that leads to clear seeing, then you can have an opinion

― ice cr?m, Saturday, June 11, 2011 4:02 PM Bookmark

During my nap today I had a dream that there was a site where you could yelp about your parents.

brooklyn bridge park definitely existed in 2007 — boredoms did 77drum there! (somehwo I know this despite never having set foot in NYC)

― bernard snowy, Saturday, June 11, 2011 4:44 PM Bookmark

That may have been "old" brooklyn bridge park? IIRC it's sort of 'between' the two bridges. The new one is a little further down the water, like just past fulton ferry landing. They may be connecting the two, not sure. They're still building parts of it -- there's a section finished by Atlantic Ave and the section I mentioned. Everything in between is going to be filled in with more park and all kinds of rec facilities. It looks pretty amazing, although I believe it's delayed right now.

i remember when the north end of central park def had a "scary" rep back in the 70s and early 80s.

anyone been up to Highbridge Park in the last few years? that place was a disaster for so long

in 1996, New York Restoration Project’s (NYRP) revitalization efforts expanded into the park – making it one of NYRP’s favorite urban discoveries. After suffering almost 30 years of neglect and misuse, NYRP crews and volunteers – in partnership with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation – uncovered more than four miles of pathways that had been buried under accumulated garbage and debris. In the process, NYRP removed abandoned automobiles and 481 tons of trash – including 8,000 tires – from what was the last, large New York City public park site to undergo major restoration.

hmmm, still kinda fucked up : (

Parks and Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe said the city plans a $60 million renovation of the High Bridge pedestrian connector between Manhattan and the Bronx, which is scheduled to wrap up in 2013.

Later, officials conceded that none of that money will go to improve the 118-acre park itself.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/07/11/2010-07-11_highbridge_is_a_poster_child_for_neglect_by_city.html

gonna go commit some crimes on the high line brb http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/nyregion/the-high-line-park-is-elevated-its-crime-rate-is-not.html

The park’s designers turned to the late, great Jane Jacobs for guidance on keeping out crime, adopting her “eyes on the streets” theory, in which windows facing the street bring a feeling of security.

huh

it's not like they had an option to build the high line somewhere where there weren't windows facing the street