Riverside Park (Manhattan)

Riverside Park is a 108 -acre public park on the east bank of the Hudson River in New York City borough of Manhattan. The park is managed by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

The park consists of a narrow strip of land that stretches over a length of 6 km along the riverside. The original 77 -acre area of ​​the park (from the 72nd to 125th Street ) was fallow land that had arisen in connection with the construction of the Hudson River Railroad, a planned railway line in 1846. The railway line was to connect the cities of New York City and Albany. The first proposal to convert the strip of land into a park, came from William R. Martin, a commissioner for parks, in 1865. The conceptual design was from Frederick Law Olmsted, who also designed the nearby Central Park. The construction was started in 1872.

In the years 1875 to 1910 architects and horticulturalists such as Calvert Vaux and Samuel Parsons laid at the park along the lines of an English garden. In the 1930s, the park was redesigned by Robert Moses in the context of a project and expanded, which is about 100 million U.S. dollar cost. In the course of the tracks of the New York Central Railroad were covered and the Henry Hudson Parkway built.

1990 voted Donald Trump, the 23 acres south of Riverside Park belonged, a magnification of the park by 9 hectares. As part of the expansion of the West Side Highway was rebuilt and removed the railways in the former Penn Central Company.