Parks
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Manhattan
Bryant Park lets New Yorkers relax in the middle of midtown Manhattan. In summer, crowds attend lunchtime readings and performances of Broadway excerpts, screenings of classic films on Mondays, and even yoga classes. In winter, a skating rink and holiday market are big draws.
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Manhattan
Two baseball diamonds, basketball courts, volleyball courts and two playgrounds, one with a water play area, provide residents with spots to compete and play. A bandshell within its boundaries hosts of concerts throughout the warm season, keeping Harlem’s tradition of fostering local music alive and well. Access the bandshell via West 122nd Street and Mt. Morris Park West.
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Queens
Jacob Riis Park was created in the early 20th century to give New York City residents a new seaside recreation area. Today, the site features the famous bath house and a pristine beach, considered one of the finest in the city.
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Manhattan
This park contains basketball and handball courts, bathrooms, a playground and spray showers. It is also home to the CITYarts Pieces for Peace Mosaic with Youth from Around the World.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn-born J.J. Byrne (1863-1930) served as chief clerk of the Bureau of Public Buildings (1907-08) and later Brooklyn Commissioner of Public Works (1924-26). The park has a playground, sprinker fountain in which children can play, and the Old Stone House of Gowanus, a reconstruction of the Vechte-Cortelyou house, originally built by Claes Arents Vechte in 1699. Events take place in the house.
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Bronx
This park, bounded by the Grand Concourse, Walton Avenue, 164th and 161st Streets, is named after Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918), a poet, journalist and soldier who was killed on the Western Front. The park was completely redesigned in 1936, at which time its two monuments, the Louis J. Heintz statue and the Lorelei fountain, were placed in their present locations. The Heintz statue by Pierre Fietu was dedicated in 1909 in honor of the Bronx’s first commissioner of street improvements who pioneered the construction of the Grand Concourse. The Lorelei fountain celebrates the German poet, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), author of an ode to Die Lorelei---a siren from German mythology who lured sailors to their deaths on the Rhine. The fountain was created by German sculptor Ernest Herter for the poet's home city, Dusseldorf. However, political groups opposed to Heine's Jewish origins and political views blocked its installation there. The fountain was finally erected in the Bronx in 1899, thanks to a subscription led by Americans of German ancestry.