New York City parks and zoos

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...

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 ...

Perhaps the best place to snap a photograph of Manhattan and both the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge, Empire-Fulton is one of the most stunning vantage points in the city. Concerts and free...

This feat of urban planning has been years in the making: conservationists who loved the uniqueness and romance of an old, disused elevated railway tussled with lot owners who wanted an eyesore torn d...