Taaffe Playground
What was here before?Once known as Bedford Corners and Stuyvesant Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant came together to form one of the...

Tall Oak Playground
The 450 members of the Quercus genus make up the trees that are commonly known as oaks. The genus is found mainly in the Nort...

Tappen Park
This park is named after World War I (1914-1918) veteran James Tappen. It is among the oldest public parks on Staten Island, a...

Taurean Spears Basketball Courts
These basketball courts were named in 2023 for Taurean Spears (1983-2019), who was a pillar of the community and mentored yout...

Tecumseh Playground
What was here before? This was once the site of Public School 87, a four-story, non-fireproof building that dated to 1889. ...

Telephone Playground
This park, located on Bell Boulevard between 75th Avenue and 217th Street, was named Bell Park, and later Telephone Playground...

Temperance Fountain
Dating to 1888, this neo-classical fountain was the gift of the wealthy San Francisco dentist, businessman, and temperance cru...

Ten Eyck Playground
This playground and the adjoining street are named for Coenradt Ten Eyck (1617-1686), a settler in the New Amsterdam colony.&n...

Ten Mile River Playground
Riverside Park, one of only eight officially designated scenic landmarks in the City of New York, has a long and storied ...

Tenney Park
What was here before? Like much of eastern Queens, this area remained rural farmland through the 19th century. The area was o...

Tepper Triangle
This triangle honors Queens resident Bernard Adolph Tepper (1925–1966), one of twelve New York City firemen killed fight...

Terrace Bridge
When Prospect Park designers Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) and Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) first planned the area surrounding...

Terrace on the Park
The Terrace on the Park was constructed for the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair. The Port Authority of New York commission...

Terrace Playground
The City of New York acquired this property in 1951. That same year the Board of Estimate assigned the land to be jointly ope...

Terrapin Playground
This playground honors the terrapin, a common name for any freshwater turtle, but specifically referring to the diamondback sp...

The Alley Pond Giant
Measured in the year 2000 at a height of 133.8 feet with a girth of 18.6 feet, this tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) may b...

The Amazing Garden
When this community garden at the corner of Columbia and Carroll Streets began to emerge as an oasis of green in the early 199...

The Amiable Child Monument
This unique New York City monument marks the site of one of the few private graves on public land within the five boroughs. It...

The Arsenal
The historic Arsenal is one of two buildings within Central Park that predate the park itself. (The other building is the bloc...

The Asian Longhorned Beetle - Murray Park
The Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) was found in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in 1996. Scientists believe it came ...