Tag: Bronx

Beyond Park Avenue: NYC’s biggest parklands

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date February 7, 2008
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And now for something that may surprise you — the top five largest parks in New York City, according to the New York Department of Parks & Recreation: 5. Central Park It seems unfathomable that Central Park isn’t number one. And downright impossible that it’s number FIVE in all the city. In truth the Olmstead-designed… Read More

Tags Bronx, Brooklyn, Central Park, Flushing-Meadows, Greenbelt, Pelham Bay Park, Queens, Robert Moses, Van Cortlandt Mansion

UNUSUAL NYC MUSEUMS #2: History and waffles

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date July 24, 2007
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In one of my entries below regarding the Mudd Club, a reader asked why I referred to Cortlandt Alley as ‘mysterious’. The tiny little alley — one of New York’s last — is between Canal and Franklin and, while partially my own projection upon it as a rough reminder of old New York, the dark… Read More

Tags Bronx, Cortlandt Alley, unusual nyc museums