Tag: parks
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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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Parks of the Bronx: Riverdale photo essay
One of the last areas I expect anyone to notice, when they look at a map of New York City, is the vertical sliver of green in the northwest corner of the Bronx. But that’s where Riverdale Park sits, tucked between train tracks along the Hudson River and a two-lane asphalt forest road with city speed limits. Riverdale Park…
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Let’s get uncomfortable: A one-year-old running podcast
Last week, Let’s Get Uncomfortable, the running podcast I host with Inés Bebea and Jaime Chien, posted its twenty-fifth episode, the first of season two. Mitchell Silver: People’s Commissioner Our season one finale featured Mitchell Silver, who recently finished a seven-year tenure as New York City Parks Commissioner. Parks make all cities habitable, but they transcend ones like New York. There is a…
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Harriman State Park: Trail runner’s paradise an hour north of New York City
Harriman State Park, Region 3 of the Lower Hudson Valley, is thirty-five miles north of New York City, close enough that you can see the Manhattan skyline . . . . . . if you know where to look. But Harriman’s proximity to the densest metropolitan area in the United States of America is only part of what…
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You’ll never believe this is Manhattan: Fall photos of Inwood Hill Park
This summer, I did photo essay of Fort Tryon Park, the gorgeous clifftop greenery in the northern hills of Manhattan. But Fort Tryon does not represent the tip of the island. That would be Inwood Hill Park, the borough’s last remaining natural forest. Inwood’s a swath of history. Glacial potholes have been forming there for…
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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 