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1993. Operated by. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Visitors. 3,187,269 (in 2014) [1] Status. Open all year. Riverbank State Park is a 28-acre (11 ha) state park [2] built on top of a sewage treatment facility on the Hudson River, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It was opened in 1993.
As of 2017, New York has 215 state parks and historic sites encompassing 350,000 acres. The agency's portfolio also includes 28 golf courses, 35 swimming pools, 67 beaches, and 18 museums and nature centers. The following sortable tables list current and former New York state parks, respectively, all 'owned' or managed by the OPRHP, as of 2015.
The New York City Department of Parks and Recreations maintains facilities and provides services through a network of public service workers, volunteers, and partnerships with private organizations. The momentum for private partnerships increased dramatically during the mayoralty of Michael Bloomberg.
List of parks in New York City. A map showing major greenspaces in New York City: 1) Central Park, 2) Van Cortlandt Park, 3) Bronx Park, 4) Pelham Bay Park, 5) Flushing Meadows Park, 6) Forest Park, 7) Prospect Park, 8) Floyd Bennett Field, 9) Jamaica Bay, A) Jacob Riis Park and Fort Tilden, B) Fort Wadsworth, C) Miller Field, D) Great Kills ...
Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park is a 691-acre (2.80 km 2) state park located in the hamlet of Great River, New York, on Long Island. [2] The park includes an arboretum designed by Frederick Law Olmsted for William Bayard Cutting in 1886, [6] as well as a mansion designed by Charles C. Haight. [3] [7] Today Bayard Cutting Arboretum State ...
Operated by. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Visitors. 982,530 (in 2014) [4] Open. All year. Website. Heckscher State Park. Heckscher State Park is a 1,657-acre (6.71 km 2) state park [2] on the shore of the Great South Bay at East Islip in Suffolk County, New York, USA.
Open. All year. Website. Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park. Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park is a 960-acre (3.9 km 2) state park in Westchester County, New York. [2] Formerly known as Mohansic (State) Park, it is situated in Yorktown, approximately 40 miles (64 km) from New York City. It was created in 1922 on the former site of the Mohansic ...
Website. Connetquot River State Park Preserve. Connetquot River State Park Preserve is a 3,473-acre (14.05 km 2) state park [1] and conservation area in the Town of Islip in Suffolk County, New York in the United States. The park contains the Long Island Environmental Interpretive Center as well as the Southside Sportsmens Club District, which ...