Tag: New York City
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Parks of the Bronx: Van Cortlandt photo essay
Van Cortlandt Park, the third-largest in New York City, and one of the only three covering more than 1,000 acres, boasts the first public golf course in the USA, constructed in 1895. The park is also home to cricketers, who got ten full fields developed on the park’s old parade grounds in 2013. And it’s hallowed ground for high school…
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It never snows, until it does
Last month I wrote about murder. This month I am writing about snow. I love snow I love snow. I love the way it falls from the sky and blankets the ground. I love how trees and fields and paths and cars look when they’re covered in snow. I enjoy skiing and sledding and snowshoeing…
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You’ll never believe this is Manhattan: Summer photos of Fort Tryon Park and the Cloisters
My favorite places in New York City are places that don’t look or feel like New York City. They could be adjacent to the icons, a specific bench in Battery Park or Midtown, a vantage point in Brooklyn Bridge Park or Astoria, Queens, just as much as they could be literally on the city’s outermost…
Nathan Schiller 