Safari Playground Central Park is one of my very favorite playgrounds. My biggest complaint is…read morethere's no restroom! It's at Central Park West and 91st Street. This is a really unique playground where children can climb over, under, and around sculptures of hippopotamuses in the pretend river that's the playground floor. Children can climb into a canoe sculpture, cool off in summer in the water spray feature, and climb mounds. It's a way to enjoy a Safari without ever leaving New York City. Safari Playground is on the top of a hill with views down toward the Reservoir. It's the only playground in Central Park that doesn't include traditional playground equipment like slides, swings, or a sandbox. I love it!!

No bathroom here so don't you even think about peeing in the fake water the hippos are in!…read more So different than most city playgrounds as there are no jungle gyms, sandbox, or swings. What you have here are plenty of hippos, rowboats, rope bridges and hills to play pretend safari on. The kids have a lot of fun and use their imaginations in this type of environment. Saw many parents having a good time with their kids here on a nice day.

Pretty amazing…read more What a job they've done renovating this playground! I stumbled upon this space by chance and I'm so glad I did! This is easily going to be one of my daughter's favorite playgrounds in the city. Although we need a train ride to get here, this space is well worth it. Structures are innovative and there's plenty to climb for a child in search of adventures. There's even a tunnel they can crawl up and down on they're own! There's a section for little ones at the northern end and water sprinklers as soon as you enter to the right. The jungle made of ropes and unstable platforms is unique, and so is the pretend train car that can be moved from outside. This place is nothing short of awesome! We visited on a Sunday afternoon toward the end of summer and the place wasn't even too crowded. It's kept clean and we felt safe. Restrooms are available and plenty of restaurants dots the neighborhood. Go and have a blast with your kids!

A pretty good park around Harlem. It feels like it's pretty safe considering the area isn't the…read moresafest outside the park. St. Nicholas Park is like an urban oasis with lots of green space. Mostly safe during the day. There's lots of cool stairs. It has a pretty interesting design with it being on the side of a hill. Lots of stairs that are helpful getting up some of the more treacherous areas in the park. The park is like a big slope and it gets pretty steep. Has lots of bike and running paths on the upper area. There's also wide open spaces good for picnics. Festivals occur occasionally and there's some concerts. The stairs make for good exercise and there's always some exercise group here it seems. Could be cleaner. It need to be more maintained. There too often is lots of left behind junk and trash.

During my consumption of wanderlust in search and find of Asian bubble tea, I encountered St…read more Nicholas Park intersecting St. Nicholas Avenue at 127th Street, St. Nicholas Terrace and 141st Street, bordering Manhattan neighborhoods of Hamilton Heights, Manhattanville, and Harlem. New York City College of CUNY is located within the perimeter edge of this park. St. Nicholas Park contains lots of lush fields of green lawns and abundant trees for 22.74 acreage. (source: https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/st-nicholas-park/history) I can visualize the autumn / Fall scenic landscaping of how beautiful the change of leaves color. I walked around the northern perimeter sidewalk which was very hilly as a uphill battle against gravity to ensure diaphragmatic breathing. St. Nicholas Park was built on a rugged mass of rock of steep, high elevation hills, rugged uneven terrain and irregular topography of northern Manhattan which has hills and steep inclines. Alexander Hamilton's 1802 estate, Hamilton Grange, was relocated to the St. Nicholas Park's northern end. This park gets the job done for my leisure of its history settled by Dutch farmers in the late 1600s and its lush green landscape scenery. Note: This park is easily accessible by B and C local trains at 135th Street station intersecting St. Nicholas Avenue. Bring a camera for scenic landscape photos and wear sneakers to climb the uphill gravitational battle.

Marcus Garvey Park is a great community resource in the neighborhood. They offer many free…read moreactivities and a nice green space for the neighborhood. This summer, they had the Charlie Parker jazz festival at the amphitheater. This was a great free event for everyone to enjoy. They have various performances throughout the year at the amphitheater, and the best part is that most are free events for the community to enjoy. In addition to the free events, this is a great park for families to enjoy. There are playgrounds for the kids, picnic areas with barbecue grills. They have a free outdoor gym where mostly men lift weights and exercise. You can also take exercise classes in the recreation center and swim in the outdoor pool in the summer. I completely recommend coming here to visit during the day while the sun is still out. However, this place gets very sketchy once it's dark, with people coming to use drugs or take part in x rated activities. Just use common sense and come here during the day.

Brother, brother......this park has a lot going for it in regards to prime time real estate and…read moremore so. Named after Marcus Garvey and in one of the increasingly affluent parts of Harlem, this park has a lot to offer. Marcus Garvey Park offers an intermediate sized swimming pool, an often used amphitheater, barbecue pit area, picnic area, a meeting center (which often offers CPR classes), playgrounds, baseball field with dugouts, book boxes, sprinklers, a dog run, and also free Wi-Fi access in case you tire of staying put and want to move elsewhere. This park is very well maintained and patrolled. MGP is easily one of the best parks in Harlem. During the Summer, one can often find artwork installations and artists throughout the park, concerts and a variety of community events ranging from swing dance to spoken word which is always an interesting pleasure. Flowers are always in bloom, so much so that the Marcus Garvey Park gardens have won awards within the City. Definitely a great stop to check out in Harlem.

West 110th Street Playground is at the northwest end of Central Park. The West 110th Street…read morePlayground is surrounded by greenery and rock. It was full of children when I arrived. I managed to get photos around them. There were Dad's and Mom's and less Nannies than other playgrounds in the Park. It's nice equipment and everyone was having fun! There's a sandbox, embankment slide, modern climbers and spinners, water feature, and tire and bucket swings. There's no bathroom! This playground is set up for Toddlers, preschoolers and school age children. The adults were on their cell phones! The surrounding area is beautiful for any nature lover like me! I'm recommending you visit!

Pretty nice children's playground at the tip of the North Woods heading over the Harlem Hill over…read moreby 110th Street. There are some cool pieces in here for the kids to play on. Cushioned ground spaces where the equipment is. Seating all around. Seems like a real locals park for that neighborhood.

It's beautiful. The architecture around is Gothic and will make you feel like you are in Europe…read moresomewhere. Mera's Tip: Take a walk

Morningside Park is a narrow strip NYC Park that stretches 13 blocks through neighborhoods of…read moreHarlem and Morningside Heights in Manhattan, NYC. It is a large public park, but of course, no Central Park for size comparison and neither the landscape of Conservatory Gardens which are my ultimate favorite. Nevertheless, it does contains beautiful full bloom lush green scenic landscaping with cohesive impact of a community park. It was built on a steep incline, which I surely felt as I was walking uphill on Cathedral Parkway and it was surely strenuous physical activity. There are outlook posts via stairs that fends a cliff-like towering view where visitors pause to intake a scenic views from above street level. These stairs are not ADA accessible. There are benches. The grounds are clean and peaceful. My visit was a fleeting moment in passage of my travels. It awoken my spirit to be grateful to be alive to see nature's beauty. My favorite are weeping willow trees which are beautiful and ultimate picturesque scenic for landscaping beauty, but to no avail. There are giant rock boulders that serve as fence or border. On Saturdays there is a outdoor farmers market. There is a bronze sculpture "Alfred Lincoln Seligman Fountain," by Edgar Walter dedicated 1914 depicting a bear leaning on rock hunting its prey with faun sheltering below and a adjacent plaque located north 114th Street and Morningside Avenue, at the foot of the stairway. This park is accessible via MTA NYC Transit B, C trains at Cathedral Parkway-110th Street station and local 1 train at Cathedral Parkway-110th Street station in Upper West Side, Manhattan, NYC.

Fresh air. And just walking and embracing the wonderful…read morenature that we been gifted. Beautiful trees bright colors Summer is here

It's an ok park. The street in front of it is blocked off which is convenient. Lots of trees but…read moredoesn't seem to be kept well. The grass needs to be cut. Lots of pigeons. The playground equipment needs an upgrade.

Love this park it's huge. Love it in the snow it's so pretty and I love playing in it. This time…read morenot much to do but walk around everything was covered in snow but I still love it

This park is very beautiful and had been remodeled since i was a teenager. Theres so much more to…read moredo here, even a restaurant. I would come here all the time as a teen and early adulthood for the pool during the summer months with friends. Def a NY staple

The playground for the kids is good, there is plenty to keep them occupied- the time of day will…read moredetermine the age group that usually hangs out. If you have younger kids I'd stick to early in the day. Later in the day you get older kids who tend to run and play a bit rougher. The only thing is sometimes the trash doesn't get cleaned up in the park as often.

I came in here to take a Zoom call with ny nutritionist and it was awful. There was garbage and…read morefood everywhere. To the point where I was wondering if there's staff to maintain the cleanliness of the park. I'm rarely in this area of New York but I'm hoping that if/when I decide to return here that the experience is better. It was also a little too loud in there for my liking.

Nice climbing playground next to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Parking is tough but doable.read more

It's an interestingly designed playground that's fun for a long time for kids that like climbing…read moreand sliding. Some playgrounds are simple in design that kids lose interest easily, Ancient Playground keeps kids engaged with so many different challenges. The reason for only 4 stars is due to the only bathroom in the area being closed. Kids need bathrooms frequently, unfortunately most of the playgrounds don't have bathrooms anywhere near. This one is one of the very few across the city but for whatever reason the bathroom is closed.