New York City Nature and Adventure

A park where no one would expect it - on deserted railtracks high above the streets of New York. After years of stagnating projects, New York is home to an innovative gem again. The High Line Park might...

This annual Halloween tradition was started in the early 1970s by puppeteer Ralph Lee. He created the parade as an attempt to encourage the celebration of the holiday; which had been waning at the tim...

In 1854 the first New York World's Fair was held here. Behind the library is Bryant Park, named after a publisher of the New York Evening Post. Today it is one of the prettiest places in the middle of M...

address: Tompkins Square Park, United States

One of the oldest and largest botanical gardens in America. It was founded in 1891 and modelled on the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew Gardens in London. A large part of the 1 sq km/0.4 sq mi park on bot...

More than 12,000 different kinds of plants grow on the 20ha/49.4ac of land. . The Botanic Garden borders on Prospect Park to the north-east. Designed by the Olmsted brothers in 1910, it has not lost any...

A 2 km/1.3mi-long promenade . The promenade runs along the bank of the Hudson River, from Chambers Street in the north to the small Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park at the southern tip of Manhattan. From here ...