Editing Manhattan (section)

===Parkland===
[[File:Central Park - The Pond (48377220157).jpg|thumb|[[Central Park]]]]
[[Park]]land covers a total of {{convert|2659|acre|km2}}, accounting for 18.2% of the borough's land area; the {{convert|840|acre|km2|adj=on}} [[Central Park]] is the borough's largest park, comprising 31.6% of Manhattan's parkland.<ref name=ParkList>[https://www.nyc.gov/assets/buildings/pdf/dpr_park_list.pdf Parks by Total Acreage (Parks Greater or Equal than 0.5 Acres)], City of New York. Accessed December 26, 2023.</ref> Designed by [[Frederick Law Olmsted]] and [[Calvert Vaux]], the park is anchored by the {{Convert|12|acres|adj=on}} [[Great Lawn and Turtle Pond|Great Lawn]]<ref>[https://www.centralparknyc.org/locations/great-lawn Great Lawn], [[Central Park Conservancy]]. Accessed December 26, 2023. "The 55-acre area hosts a great range of recreational activities and is a popular destination for picnicking, sunbathing, relaxing, playing and watching softball, and enjoying the scenery. The main oval lawn area is 12 acres and includes six fields for softball."</ref> and offers extensive [[walking track]]s, two [[ice-skating]] rinks, a wildlife sanctuary, and several lawns and sporting areas, as well as 21 playgrounds,<ref>[https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/central-park Central Park], [[New York City Department of Parks and Recreation]]. Accessed December 26, 2023.</ref> and a {{convert|6|mi|km|adj=on}} road from which automobile traffic has been banned since 2018.<ref>[[James Barron (journalist)|Barron, James]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/nyregion/central-parks-drives.html "Can Central Park's Drives Become More Peaceful?"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 2, 2023. "There is chaos — as defined by Smith, the president of the nonprofit Central Park Conservancy — on the drives, the six miles of road inside the park that have been off limits to most cars since 2018."</ref> While much of the park looks natural, it is almost entirely landscaped; the [[construction of Central Park]] in the 1850s was one of the era's most massive public works projects, with some 20,000 workers moving {{Convert|5|e6cuyd|e6m3|abbr=off|sp=us}} of material to shape the [[topography]] and create the English-style pastoral landscape that Olmsted and Vaux sought.<ref>Kang, Tricia. [https://www.centralparknyc.org/articles/central-park-history "160 Years of Central Park: A Brief History"], [[Central Park Conservancy]], June 1, 2017. Accessed December 26, 2023. "Construction began on the Park in 1858. Workers moved nearly 5 million cubic yards of stone, earth, and topsoil, built 36 bridges and arches, and constructed 11 overpasses over the transverse roads. They also planted 500,000 trees, shrubs, and vines. The landscapes were manmade and all built by hand."</ref>

The remaining 70% of Manhattan's parkland includes 204 playgrounds, 251 Greenstreets, 371 [[basketball court]]s, and many other amenities.<ref name=MBPOEnvironment>{{cite web |url=http://www.mbpo.org/policy/environment |title=Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer |access-date=March 25, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070411204634/http://www.mbpo.org/policy/environment |archive-date=April 11, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The next-largest park in Manhattan, the [[Hudson River Park]], stretches {{convert|4.5|mi|km}} along the Hudson River and comprises {{convert|550|acre}}.<ref name="RIoG_ParkStats">{{cite book |title=2014 New York State Statistical Yearbook |url=http://www.rockinst.org/nys_statistics/2014/2014_Yearbook_Section_O.pdf |publisher=The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government |year=2014 |chapter=Section O: Environmental Conservation and Recreation, Table O-9 |page=672 |access-date=September 29, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150916082616/http://www.rockinst.org/nys_statistics/2014/2014_Yearbook_Section_O.pdf |archive-date=September 16, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Other major parks include:<ref name=ParkList/>

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* [[Bowling Green (New York City)|Bowling Green]]
* [[Bryant Park]]
* [[City Hall Park]]
* [[DeWitt Clinton Park]]
* [[East River Greenway]]
* [[Fort Tryon Park]]
* [[Fort Washington Park (Manhattan)|Fort Washington Park]]
* [[Harlem River Park]]
* [[Rucker Park]]
* [[Imagination Playground]]
* [[Inwood Hill Park]]
* [[Isham Park]]
* [[J. Hood Wright Park]]
* [[Jackie Robinson Park]]
* [[Madison Square Park]]
* [[Marcus Garvey Park]]
* [[Morningside Park (Manhattan)|Morningside Park]]
* [[Randalls Island|Randall's Island Park]]
* [[Riverside Park (Manhattan)|Riverside Park]]
* [[Sara D. Roosevelt Park]]
* [[Seward Park (Manhattan)|Seward Park]]
* [[St. Nicholas Park]]
* [[Stuyvesant Square]]
* [[The Battery (Manhattan)|The Battery]]
* [[High Line|The High Line]]
* [[Thomas Jefferson Park]]
* [[Tompkins Square Park]]
* [[Union Square Park]]
* [[Washington Square Park]]
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