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As of 2017, New York has 215 state parks and historic sites encompassing 350,000 acres. The agency's portfolio also includes 28 golf courses, 35 swimming pools, 67 beaches, and 18 museums and nature centers. [5] The following sortable tables list current and former New York state parks, respectively, all 'owned' or managed by the OPRHP, as of 2015.
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.
1993. Operated by. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Visitors. 3,187,269 (in 2014) [ 1] Status. Open all year. Riverbank State Park is a 28-acre (11 ha) state park [ 2] built on top of a sewage treatment facility on the Hudson River, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It was opened in 1993.
The UC Community Plan approved by the City Council in February does not have enough neighborhood parks and includes substandard parks. The plan covers 654 acres with 3,857 dwellings occupied by ...
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation ( NYS OPRHP) is a state agency within the New York State Executive Department [ 5] charged with the operation of state parks and historic sites within the U.S. state of New York. [ 6] As of 2014, the NYS OPRHP manages nearly 335,000 acres (523 sq mi; 1,360 km 2) of public ...
The plan originated when the Common Council of New York City, seeking to provide for the orderly development and sale of the land of Manhattan between 14th Street and Washington Heights, but unable to do so itself for reasons of local politics and objections from property owners, asked the New York State Legislature to step in. The legislature ...
The National Park Service Organic Act, [ 1] or simply "the Organic Act" as referred to within the National Park Service, conservationists, etc., is a United States federal law that established the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. The Act was signed into law on August 25, 1916, by President ...
Green Lakes State Park is a New York State Park located east of Syracuse in the Town of Manlius. The park is strikingly scenic, and has a "masterpiece" [2] golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones very early in his career. Green Lake itself is perhaps the most studied meromictic lake—one in which layers of water do not mix—in the world. [3]