A report on New York City and Pelham Bay Park

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Orchard Beach promenade, built in the 1930s

Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.

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.

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

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

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."

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

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

Bird watching is a popular activity in the park

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

Panoramic view of Orchard Beach, facing from the bathhouse pavilion

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

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

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

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.

Pedestrian overpass to the park's eponymous station

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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Van Cortlandt Park

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

Van Cortlandt Park, Oscar Florianus Bluemner, 1936

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

Putnam Trail entrance, looking south from the city line.

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

The historic Van Cortlandt House, now a museum

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

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

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

The abandoned Putnam Railroad bridge over the Henry Hudson Parkway

The Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street station

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

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

Central Park

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

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

Bethesda Terrace and Fountain under construction in 1862

Gentry in the new park, c. undefined 1870

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

Angel of the Waters (1873) in Bethesda Fountain

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

Summerstage features free musical concerts throughout the summer.

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

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

Sheep Meadow, a common place for gatherings

Skyscrapers abut the southern border of Central Park.

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

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.

Westchester County, New York

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Located in the U.S. state of New York.

Harbors, islands and shoreline of New Rochelle

Philipsburg Manor House in Sleepy Hollow

The New Croton Reservoir is the largest of many in the county.

Municipalities in Westchester County, New York

The Tappan Zee Bridge connecting Tarrytown to South Nyack

Westchester County Airport near White Plains

It is the seventh most populous county in New York State and the most populous north of New York City.

Where Pelham Manor meets Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, the southern border of Westchester is just under 11 mi from Columbus Circle in Manhattan.

Boroughs of New York City

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Chinatown in Manhattan, the most densely populated borough of New York City, with a higher density than any individual American city.

Landmark 19th-century brownstones in the Greenpoint Historic District of Brooklyn, New York City's most populous borough.

The Unisphere in Queens, the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world.

The Bronx, the northernmost borough of New York City and the only borough situated on the United States mainland.

Borough Hall in the St. George neighborhood of Staten Island, the most suburban borough of New York City.

The percentage of New York City population residing in each borough (from bottom to top):
1. Manhattan ,
2. Brooklyn ,
3. Queens ,
4. The Bronx, and
5. Staten Island . Populations before 1898 are for the areas now enclosed in the present boroughs.

1. The Bronx (Bronx County)
2. Brooklyn (Kings County)
3. Manhattan (New York County)
4. Queens (Queens County)
5. Staten Island (Richmond County)
Note: JFK and LGA airports are both part of Queens.

New York City is composed of five boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.

The Bronx (Bronx County) is New York City's northernmost borough and the only New York City borough that is part of the United States mainland, aside from Marble Hill, Manhattan. It is the location of Yankee Stadium, the baseball stadium of the New York Yankees, and home to the largest cooperatively owned housing complex in the United States, Co-op City. It is also home to the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo, which covers 265 acre and houses over 6,000 animals. Directly to the zoo's north is the New York Botanical Garden, a botanical garden and National Historic Landmark. Pelham Bay Park is the largest park in New York City, at 2,772 acre.