Park Odyssey

Wards Island Park is part of the Wards Island-Randalls Island landmass, which used to be two islands in the Harlem River at the intersectio...

Five-acre Devoe Park in the University Heights section of The Bronx dates to 1913-1915, when land acquired by the city beginning in 1885 wa...

Edgar Allan Poe lived the last few years of his life in a small house in the then-rural Bronx. He'd moved there with his ailing wife in ...

Aqueduct Walk in The Bronx is part of the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail . The trail marks the path of the Croton Aqueduct, New York City's ...

I began this project four years ago with a post about Collect Pond Park in lower Manhattan, near the notorious old Five Points slum. I didn...