PARK FACT:
One of the forces behind the completion of the grid on the Upper West Side and the creation of Riverside Park was the rise in real estate values after the Civil War and the need for more housing out at the edges of Manhattan to relieve congestion.
Riverside Park
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Skate Park
Season 1, Summer 2006
Parks designers collaborated with local teens to create Staten Island's first skate Park.
Science Barge
Season 3, Summer 2007
This extraordinarily green greenhouse floats from port to port in New York Harbor.
