ISnapNY » Parks and Recreation

A baseball fan shows off his New York Yankees banner after game six of the World Series on Wednesday

Liza Eckert — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:46:17 +0000

The Yankees defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 to win the title.

Marathon runners make their way onto the Queensboro Bridge as a 7 train waits in the station above

Liza Eckert — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:58:46 +0000

They then ran through Manhattan and the Bronx before finishing in Central Park.

Visitors in Prospect Park, Brooklyn enjoy the peak fall colors and warm weather

Valerie Lapinski — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:32:48 +0000

An uncommon Brooklyn resident explores the grounds of the Boardwalk Garden in Coney Island

Erin McCarthy — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:25:18 +0000

The community garden is open to everyone in the neighborhood.

Abandoned cars sit half-buried next to a gas station in the village of “Goverthing.”

Eleanor Miller — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:13:31 +0000

Goverthing purported to be an abandoned civilian town on the former military base that was under archaeological excavation; in fact, it was in fact an elaborate art exhibit. More information can be found on the blog of the “archaeologists,” or in the NYTimes article “Uncovering a Small Town (and Some Tall Tales),” published September 18. 2009.

A wedding procession heads toward Deno’s Wonder Wheel Amusement Park at Coney Island

Shane Dixon Kavanaugh — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:32:22 +0000

A child waits to run around inside an inflatable plastic ball at the New Island Festival on Governors Island

Benjamin Fractenberg — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:21:25 +0000

Rental bicycles from the new Waterfront Bicycle Shop line the sidewalk along West Street in the West Village

David Montalvo — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:08:24 +0000

Christian Farrell, a former pedicab driver, opened the bike shop earlier this summer despite recent retail closings in the neighborhood.

Charles Denson, author, reads from his book in front of a jellyfish tank at the New York Aquarium

Eleanor Miller — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:04:52 +0000

Denson appeared as one of half a dozen poets and writers who performed in the first annual PARACHUTE: the Coney Island Performance Festival.

An infant tree spreads its leaves after growing through the holes of this weaved metal tree grate in the Upper West Side

Mitch Trinka — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:38:50 +0000

The hustle and bustle of intersecting Broadway and Amsterdam plays out in the background.