Tag: Parks of the Bronx series
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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…
Nathan Schiller 