well, I like the whole city, but you want a more specific answer, so I'll shout out Paley Park, which an architect friend of mine once called the best park in the city. it's a cute little park with a little waterfall. it's good. have fun there.
chlonline well, it's nestled in between two big buildings... it's apparently privately owned... but hey, we need parks in the middle of corporate midtown, that waterfall has probably relieved more stress than any waterfall on the planet, it's probably saved the lives of a hundred poor interns who had nothing else in their day worth living through.
danhakimi you’re right and I was looking forward to hearing your defense. if I ever find myself up there I’ll take a peak (and I’ll tell my banker brother about it)
ok these are all Manhattan but In Central Park there are quiet areas if you avoid Bethesda terrace strawberry field or whatever the Beatles one is called and sheeps meadow - the conservatory garden is especially nice and p empty The community gardens in alphabet city are small but soooo nice my favorites are the one on the south west corner Ave c and e 9th (there’s like a pond with turtles and shit!!) and one across on north east corner of Ave c and e 9th. Firemen’s memorial garden on e 8th (there’s a koi pond!!) LASTLY Stuyvesant square park (it’s not actually in stuy town) they have beautiful flowers and landscaping and it’s usually very empty and there’s big big fountains