Once a small 44 acre island in Sag Harbor Cove ... know by the Shelter Island Indians who lived there and Hogannock Island. Now connected to Noyac and North Haven by Long Beach Road

The Queens Botanical Garden began as part of the 1939 New York World's Fair in Queens. After the fair, the garden expanded to take up a larger portion of Flushing Meadows Park. When work was begun on construction of the 1964 World's Fair, the garden was moved to a site across the street from Flushing Meadows Park.

Bowling Green is a small public park in Lower Manhattan at the foot of Broadway next to the site of the original Dutch fort of New Amsterdam. It is the oldest existing public park in New York City and is known for being the location of the Charging Bull bronze sculpture.

The Strawberry Fields memorial is the name given to a landscaped section in New York's Central Park that is dedicated to the memory of musician John Lennon, and named after one of his songs, "Strawberry Fields Forever." It was designed by landscape architect Bruce Kelly (1948-1993), one of the principal members of the Central Park Conservancy's management at the time and the chief landscape architect for the Conservancy's restoration planning team.

Designed by landscape architect Bruce Kelly (1948-1993), one of the principal members of the Central Park Conservancy's management and restoration planning team, Strawberry Fields was named in 1981 by a New York City Council law introduced by Council member Henry J. Stern and signed by Mayor Edward I. Koch.

The 11-acre Harlem Meer (Dutch for lake) and the wooded landscape that surround it were constructed after the lower Park had been completed.

Visitors can see swans and grebes leaving small jet wakes in the water. They can look south and see dramatic rock outcroppings angling sharply to the water, and to the north the buildings of Harlem and the traffic navigating Duke Ellington Circle.

Perched on the northern shore of the Harlem Meer, the Park's northernmost body of water, is Central Park's newest building, which opened to the public in 1993.
The Charles A. Dana Discovery Center serves as the Upper Park's visitor center and offers a wide variety of the Conservancy's free family and community programs.

After a two-year, $4.3 million restoration, the North Meadow reopened in May 2000.

North Meadow covers 16 acres bounded by the East and West Park Drives between the 97th Street Transverse Road and the 102nd Street Cross Drive.

At 23 acres, the North Meadow is the Park's largest open space, punctuated only by the clay fans of ballfields. Following extensive renovation, the 12 fields for baseball, softball, and soccer reopened for permitted use in the spring of 2000.

The North Meadow Recreation Center (NMRC), which is at the south end of the Meadow, was converted to a recreational facility in the early 1990s and underwent a second refurbishment in 1998.

With the largest contained number of evergreens in Central Park, well over 425 representing 27 species the 4-acre Ross Pinetum is truly a miniature pine forest.

Funded in 1971 by Arthur Ross, a New York philanthropist, it has become an attraction for Park visitors, residents and bird watchers.