Parks and recreation in New York City
- Parks and recreation in New York City
and dance, theater, and children's arts festivals.
The city has 28,000 acres (113 km²) of parkland and 14 miles (22 km) of public beaches. Prospect Park in Brooklyn, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, has a 90 acre (360,000 m²) meadow thought to be the largest meadow in any U.S. park. Flushing Meadows Park in Queens is the city's third largest park and hosted the World's Fair in 1939 and 1964. Manhattan's Central Park, also designed by Olmsted and Vaux, is the most visited city park in the United States. [cite news|publisher=The Trust for Public Land, Center for City Park Excellence|date=June 2006|url=http://www.tpl.org/tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=20531&folder_id=3208|accessdate=2006-07-19|title=City Park Facts] The park offers hundreds of spaces and places for relaxation and cultural experience, including free concerts, dance, spoken word, and film events at Summerstage, and performances for children at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre.
In the summer of 1936 Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and Parks Commissioner Robert Moses opened eleven monumental pools across the five boroughs: four in Manhattan, one each in the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island, and four in Brooklyn. With each ribbon cutting, La Guardia famously switched on the underwater lights and boomed, "Okay kids, it’s all yours!"
Built with money from the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the pools were a great feat of engineering, architectural design, and urban planning and over the years have been the setting for everything from amateur wading to Olympic competition. But the city has been true to La Guardia’s words and to this day, the pools are free and open to the public. With a total capacity of 43,000 people, they are a place where all New Yorkers can go to catch a free swimming lesson and a glimpse of New York City’s history.
References
ee also
* List of New York City parks
* New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
Wikimedia Foundation.
2010.
Look at other dictionaries:
New York City Department Of Parks And Recreation — Le New York City Department of Parks and Recreation est le service municipal de la ville de New York en charge de l entretien des espaces verts de la ville. L organisme a également pour vocation de maintenir la diversité écologique, et de mettre… … Wikipédia en Français
New york city department of parks and recreation — Le New York City Department of Parks and Recreation est le service municipal de la ville de New York en charge de l entretien des espaces verts de la ville. L organisme a également pour vocation de maintenir la diversité écologique, et de mettre… … Wikipédia en Français
Bridges and tunnels in New York City — J train on the Williamsburg Bridge New York City s harbor and multiple waterways are what once made it the center of trade, but today they make it a city of bridges and tunnels. Over 2,000 of them provide uninterrupted vehicular movement… … Wikipedia
New York City — This article is about the city. For other uses, see New York City (disambiguation). New York, New York and NYC redirect here. For other uses, see New York, New York (disambiguation) and NYC (disambiguation). New York City … Wikipedia
New York City Parks Enforcement Patrol — Abbreviation NYC PEP Patch of the New York City Parks Enforcement Patrol … Wikipedia
Parks and Recreation — This article is about the television series. For a list of parks and recreation departments, see Department of Parks and Recreation. Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation title card Genre Sitcom … Wikipedia
NEW YORK CITY — NEW YORK CITY, foremost city of the Western Hemisphere and largest urban Jewish community in history; pop. 7,771,730 (1970), est. Jewish pop. 1,836,000 (1968); metropolitan area 11,448,480 (1970), metropolitan area Jewish (1968), 2,381,000… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
New York City — City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and an important seaport, it consists of five boroughs: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. The site of a… … Universalium
New York City Council — Type Type Unicameral Leadership Speaker Christine Quinn, Democratic since January 2006 … Wikipedia
Tourism in New York City — The Circle Line XVII touring the Harlem River … Wikipedia
