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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 56 dog parks
Best dog parks in New York City
The 10 most notable dog parks in New York City, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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Hunter's Point South Dog Run
Hunter's Point South Park Center Blvd. & 51st Ave
354 m from Long Island City, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.370, percentile 100 of 56
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Union Square Dog Run
Union Square W
36 m from 14th Street–Union Square, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.361, percentile 98.18 of 56
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3
Kennedy Dells
355 N Main St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.360, percentile 96.36 of 56
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4
Dyker Beach Dog Run
900-998 86th St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.335, percentile 94.55 of 56
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5
Herbert Von King Park Dog Run
Herbert Von King Park, Marcy Ave & Clifton Pl
296 m from Tompkins Avenue, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.322, percentile 92.73 of 56
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6
Leroy Street Dog Park
353 West St
226 m from Christopher Street, metro
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.322, percentile 90.91 of 56
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Pier 6 Dog Run
334 Furman St
712 m from Court Street, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.312, percentile 89.09 of 56
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Leroy Dog Run
626 Washington St
259 m from Houston Street, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.312, percentile 87.27 of 56
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Hillside Dog Park
Vine St
198 m from Fulton Ferry, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.312, percentile 85.45 of 56
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Pier 26 at Hudson River Park
Hudson River Greenway
315 m from Franklin Street, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.311, percentile 83.64 of 56
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).