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The lack of greenery is the worst aspect of New York for me.
by pharmakom 3y ago
The lack of greenery is the worst aspect of New York for me.
- huytersd 3y agoIt’s really makes Central Park that much more special. It just feels like a true sanctuary when you step into it.
- pavel_lishin 3y agoCheck out Fort Tryon as well; it's huge, and there are many parts where you can go and feel like you're not in a city at all.
- crazygringo 3y agoIt's extremely dependent on the neighborhood. Obviously midtown doesn't have a lot of trees. But there are also residential neighborhoods with streets where the trees from both sides of the street meet above and form a canopy. Not to mention the backyard areas of blocks of brownstones that can be full of trees and gardens and greenery. And then if you're lucky enough to live near something like Prospect Park, well you've basically got the biggest backyard anybody could ever ask for.
- woodruffw 3y agoAs others have said: it depends heavily on the neighborhood. I grew up in a neighborhood with decent (but not great) tree coverage; my current neighborhood has full canopies on many blocks. (This is one of the things I found most surprising about otherwise far more livable European cities: East Coast US cities tend to be far greener in a “diffuse” sense, if not in terms of total park area.)
- te_chris 3y agoIt's what I find stark between London and other continental captials too. You get seduced as there's often a trophy park, but after a while you realise that's pretty much it for miles, apart from the occasional square - looking at you in particular, Paris and Madrid.