Park Odyssey

Brooklyn's Washington Park , not to be confused with Manhattan's Washington Square Park (or Washington Market Park , or Fort Washin...

Like a great many things in New York City, Amersfort Park reflects the area's history of Dutch settlement. This pleasant, quiet green s...

Canarsie Pier , part of the Gateway National Recreation Area , isn't a city park, or even properly a park at all. But its wide spaces, o...

In an era of climate change and superstorms, restoring wetlands is a bigger priority than ever for a seaside city like New York. One "u...

Paerdegat Basin Park , on the southeast Brooklyn coast, is one of those more-or-less natural areas that's called a park, but that you ca...

New York City has plenty of mini-parks where streets cross at acute and obtuse angles leaving small triangular patches of land with no other...

The winter months are a slow time for Park Odyssey, but scenes still catch my eye in and around parks. Here are a few Manhattan snapshots fr...