NYC Parks

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Across
  1. 3. Found in this park is the Burial Ridge, a Lenape burial ground which is the largest pre-European burial ground in the city. (Staten Island)
  2. 4. This park was formerly the site of the largest landfill in the world. When construction is completed, it will be one of the largest parks in NYC. (Staten Island)
  3. 6. The park is home to the Queens Giant, a tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) that is the tallest carefully measured tree in New York City. (Queens)
  4. 8. In this park you can find “Mount Moses”, a 260 foot mound of serpentine rock and soil excavated for a proposed (but never completed) extension of the Staten Island expressway through the park in the 1960s. (Staten Island)
  5. 9. This coastal park is bisected by the Whitestone Bridge and named for the transportation industry that boomed in the area prior to the construction of that bridge. (the Bronx)
  6. 13. Within this park is the Long Island Motor Parkway, a bicycle path that was once America’s first limited-access road for cars, built by William Vanderbilt in the early 20th century. (Queens)
  7. 14. A design for this park won a silver medal in the Architecture/Municipal Design competition at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. (Brooklyn)
Down
  1. 1. A large area of this park has been closed to the public since 2009 due to detection of radioactive landfill material producing gamma radiation 200x higher than natural background level.(Staten Island)
  2. 2. This park is home to the country's first public golf course, and the largest freshwater lake in the Bronx. (the Bronx)
  3. 5. In this park's "Historic Grove", you can see planted remnants of the former Parson and Company Nursery, responsible for introducing exotic species such as Japanese Maple to the US in the 19th century. (Queens)
  4. 7. John D Rockefeller, Jr. donated the land for this park to the city, and also financed the building of the Met Cloisters within the park. (Manhattan)
  5. 10. Here you can find Hunter Island, home to an old-growth oak forest ringed by tidal wetlands. (the Bronx)
  6. 11. This park contains the last remaining salt marsh on the island of Manhattan. (Manhattan)
  7. 12. This park’s Pine Grove contains hundreds of white pine trees planted in 1914 after the chestnut blight killed thousands of chestnut trees in the park. (Queens)