Published at 5:14pm
Published on 9/5/08
Own This City
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1 Prospect Park Ravine, Brooklyn
2 Sheep Meadow, Central Park
3 The Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
4 Wave Hill Pergola, Bronx
5 White Garden, Staten Island Botanical Garden
Sights 6–10
Go ahead, turn up your grit-loving New Yorker nose at this lush corner of the 28-acre Bronx gardens, populated with different, unusual flora for every season. With your schnoz in the air you’ll only have a better view of the garden’s sweeping vista of the Hudson River and Jersey’s Palisades.
View all of our green space picks on a Google map.
John B. Moore
Mon, Oct 15, 07, at 7:58pm
Okay you've got Central Park 843 acres of one of the most beautifully landscaped parks in the world, an urban oasis that includes Bow Bridge, Bethesda Fountain, Belvedere Castle, Conservatory Garden, The Lake and Gapstow Bridge. Out of all of these, and countless other iconic images of the park, you chose the Sheep Meadow a vast lawn full of greased up New Yorkers desperate for their share of carcinoma causing sunshine; a space that was arguably put to better use as a buffet for the inbred mutant sheep that once inhabited the Sheepfold the current Tavern on the Green.
You really believe that the Sheep Meadow is the most beautiful spot in Central Park? Or did you just suck back a Mohito at the aforementioned former livestock hostelry snap a picture at the nearest open space and call it a day?
lisa
Thu, Oct 11, 07, at 4:19pm
Carl Schurz?