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The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, also called the Parks Department or NYC Parks, is the department of the government of New York City responsible for maintaining the city's parks system, preserving and maintaining the ecological diversity of the city's natural areas, and furnishing recreational opportunities for city's residents and visitors.
Residents say these tennis courts need more “love.” Longtime tennis players at a public Bedford-Stuyvesant park say the facility has been unfairly shuttered by the Parks Department, and ...
Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, and the first landscaped park in the United States.. It is the sixth-largest park in the city, containing 843 acres (341 ha), and the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 42 million visitors annually as of 2016
[7] [4] The Central Park Conservancy's overall endowment was over $200 million in 2014. [5] Much of this amount came from large donations. The largest was in October 2012, when hedge fund manager John A. Paulson announced a $100 million gift to the Central Park Conservancy, the largest ever monetary donation to New York City's park system.
North Woods and North Meadow, located between 97th and 110th Streets in Central Park, were among the last parts of the park to be built. [1]: 37 While construction on the southern part of the park started in 1857, [2]: PDF pp. 31–35 [3]: 161–162 the northernmost four blocks between 106th and 110th Streets were not even purchased until 1859.
Sheep Meadow is a 15-acre (61,000 m 2) meadow near the southwestern section of Central Park, between West 66th and 69th Streets in Manhattan, New York City.It is adjacent to Central Park Mall to the east, The Ramble and Lake to the north, West Drive to the west, and Heckscher Playground and Ballfields to the south.
The Sportime Randall's Island Tennis Center is a tennis facility located in Randalls Island Park in New York City. It is the home of the New York Sportimes team of World TeamTennis (WTT) . External links
New York Hamptons logo used from 2000 to 2002.. The New York Hamptons were founded by Patrick McEnroe and Richard Ader as a WTT expansion franchise in 2000. [4] The Hamptons made their debut with a 22–21 loss on the road against the Schenectady County Electrics at the Central Park Tennis Stadium in Schenectady, New York on July 10, 2000.