A report on Pelham Bay Park, Van Cortlandt Park, New York City and Central Park

Aerial view of the park (pictured in the center left)

Map of Pelham Bay Park's future site at the time of the Battle of Pell's Point

Remains of the New York and Putnam Railroad, Van Cortlandt Station inside the park

New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year England took control and renamed it "New York"

Map of the former Seneca Village from Viele's survey for Central Park

Van Cortlandt Park, Oscar Florianus Bluemner, 1936

Fort George and the City of New York c. 1731. Royal Navy ships of the line are seen guarding what would become New York Harbor.

The Lake, one of the first features of Central Park to be completed

Columbia University was founded by royal charter in 1754 under the name of King's College.

Bethesda Terrace and Fountain under construction in 1862

Orchard Beach promenade, built in the 1930s

The Sachkerah Woods Playground, located at Van Cortlandt Park's southeast corner

The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolution, took place in Brooklyn in 1776.

Gentry in the new park, c. undefined 1870

Putnam Trail entrance, looking south from the city line.

Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.

The park's own little stonehenge, a former structural stone testing site for the construction of Grand Central Terminal

The current 5 boroughs of Greater New York as they appeared in 1814. Bronx was in Westchester County, Queens County included modern Nassau County, Kings County had 6 towns, one of which was Brooklyn, New York City is shown by hatching in southern New York County on the island of Manhattan, and Richmond County on Staten Island.

The historic Van Cortlandt House, now a museum

A construction worker atop the Empire State Building as it was being built in 1930. The Chrysler Building is behind him.

Glover's Rock: "Near this site on October 12, 1776 Col. John Glover and 600 patriots held off British and Hessian forces under Gen Howe long enough to save Washington's troops from destruction, enabling them to withdraw to Westchester and ultimate victory."

Manhattan's Little Italy, Lower East Side, circa 1900

The lake and golf course at sunset; the former railroad bridge is at far left

The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern gay rights movement

Female northern cardinal, one of the bird species found in Central Park

Bird watching is a popular activity in the park

View of the Parade Ground from the starting line of the cross-country course

United Airlines Flight 175 hits the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Panoramic view of Orchard Beach, facing from the bathhouse pavilion

The interchange of Henry Hudson, Saw Mill, and Mosholu Parkways in the park

The core of the New York City metropolitan area, with Manhattan Island at its center

The abandoned Putnam Railroad bridge over the Henry Hudson Parkway

The Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street station

Lower and Midtown Manhattan, as seen by a SkySat satellite in 2017

The west end of the City Island Bridge (original bridge pictured) is located inside Pelham Bay Park.

Central Park in Winter by Raymond Speers, in Munsey's Magazine, February 1900

Angel of the Waters (1873) in Bethesda Fountain

Pedestrian overpass to the park's eponymous station

Flushing Meadows–Corona Park was used in both the 1939 and 1964 New York World's Fair, with the Unisphere as the centerpiece of the latter and which remains today.

Cleopatra's Needle, the park's oldest man-made structure

The Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in New York Harbor is a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity.

View of The Pond and Midtown Manhattan from the Gapstow Bridge in Central Park, one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, in 2019

Summerstage features free musical concerts throughout the summer.

California sea lions play at the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo.

Entrance to the Fifth Avenue–59th Street subway station just outside Central Park

A map of racial distribution in New York, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people:

The landmark Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral, Midtown Manhattan

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish residents in Brooklyn. Brooklyn has the largest Jewish community in the United States, with approximately 600,000 individuals.

North Woods, one of several places where crimes were reported during the 1989 Central Park jogger case

The Islamic Cultural Center of New York in Upper Manhattan was the first mosque built in New York City.

Sheep Meadow, a common place for gatherings

Ganesh Temple in Flushing, Queens, is the oldest Hindu temple in the Western Hemisphere.

Skyscrapers abut the southern border of Central Park.

The New York Stock Exchange, by a significant margin the world's largest stock exchange per market capitalization of its listed companies, at US$23.1 trillion as of April 2018. Pictured is the exchange's building on Wall Street.

The Deutsche Bank Center as viewed from Central Park West

Times Square is the hub of the Broadway theater district and a media center. It also has one of the highest annual attendance rates of any tourist attraction in the world, estimated at 50 million.

Rockefeller Center is home to NBC Studios.

Times Square Studios, home of Good Morning America

Butler Library at Columbia University, described as one of the most beautiful college libraries in the United States

The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of both New York University (NYU) and its Greenwich Village neighborhood

New York-Presbyterian Hospital, affiliated with Columbia University and Cornell University, the largest hospital and largest private employer in New York City and one of the world's busiest

The New York Police Department (NYPD) is the largest police force in the United States.

Police officers of New York Police Department (NYPD)

The Fire Department of New York (FDNY) is the largest municipal fire department in the United States.

The Stephen A. Schwarzman Headquarters Building of the New York Public Library, at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street

The fast-paced streets of New York City, January 2020

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, part of Museum Mile, is one of the largest museums in the world.

Smorgasburg opened in 2011 as an open-air food market and is part of the Brooklyn Flea.

As of 2012, the city had about 6,000 hybrid taxis (shown) in service, the largest number of any city in North America.

New York City Hall is the oldest City Hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions.

The New York County Courthouse houses the New York Supreme Court and other offices.

Eric Adams, the current and 110th Mayor of New York City

New York City is home to the two busiest train stations in the U.S., including Grand Central Terminal.

The New York City Subway is the world's largest rapid transit system by number of stations.

The Port Authority Bus Terminal, the world's busiest bus station, at 8th Avenue and 42nd Street

John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States

The Staten Island Ferry shuttles commuters between Manhattan and Staten Island.

Yellow medallion taxicabs are widely recognized icons of the city.

8th Avenue, looking northward ("uptown"). Most streets and avenues in Manhattan's grid plan incorporate a one-way traffic configuration.

The George Washington Bridge, connecting Upper Manhattan (background) from Fort Lee, New Jersey across the Hudson River, is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge.

The growing skyline of Long Island City, Queens (background),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-30/nyc-s-fastest-growing-neighborhood-gets-180-million-investment|title=NYC's Fastest-Growing Neighborhood Gets $180 Million Investment|first=Henry|last=Goldman|date=October 30, 2018|publisher=Bloomberg L.P|access-date=October 30, 2018}}</ref> facing the East River and Manhattan in May 2017

The Grand Concourse in the Bronx, foreground, with Manhattan in the background in February 2018

St. George, Staten Island as seen from the Staten Island Ferry, the world's busiest passenger-only ferry system, shuttling passengers between Manhattan and Staten Island

The Asia gate entrance to the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo.

The Spanish Harlem Orchestra. New York City is home to nearly 3 million Latino Americans, the largest Hispanic population of any city outside Latin America and Spain.

The Financial District of Lower Manhattan including Wall Street, the world's principal financial center

Pelham Bay Park is a municipal park located in the northeast corner of the New York City borough of the Bronx.

- Pelham Bay Park

Van Cortlandt Park is a 1146 acre park located in the borough of the Bronx in New York City.

- Van Cortlandt Park

Central Park is an urban park in New York City, between the Upper West and Upper East Sides of Manhattan.

- Central Park

The park is more than three times the size of Manhattan's Central Park.

- Pelham Bay Park

Central Park is the fifth-largest park in New York City, behind Pelham Bay Park, the Staten Island Greenbelt, Van Cortlandt Park, and Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, with an area of 843 acre.

- Central Park

Olmsted noted the natural beauty of the Van Cortlandt estate, comparing it to Central Park which he designed, and recommended the city purchase the property.

- Van Cortlandt Park

However, most of this opposition was directed at the construction of Pelham Bay Park, which was then in Westchester.

- Van Cortlandt Park

Due to its distance from the city, NYC Parks decided to keep 3000 acre of Pelham Bay and Van Cortlandt Parks in their natural state, unlike some of the other parks closer to Manhattan, which were being extensively landscaped.

- Pelham Bay Park

Public-minded members of the contemporaneous business elite lobbied for the establishment of Central Park, which in 1857 became the first landscaped park in an American city.

- New York City

Pelham Bay Park is the largest park in New York City, at 2772 acre.

- New York City

Over a fifth of the Bronx's area, 7000 acre, is given over to open space and parks, including Pelham Bay Park, Van Cortlandt Park, the Bronx Zoo, and the New York Botanical Gardens.

- New York City

A report on Pelham Bay Park, Van Cortlandt Park, New York City and Central Park

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