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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 625 parks
Best parks in New York City
The 10 most notable 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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1
Industrious New York Bryant Park
1411 Broadway
195 m from Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.444, percentile 100 of 625
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2
Washington Market Park
199 Chambers St
201 m from Warren Street, metro
Photo Aude · CC BY-SA 2.5 · source listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.444, percentile 99.84 of 625
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3
Torsney and Lou Lodati Playground
41-15 Skillman Ave
430 m from 40th Street–Lowery Street station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.441, percentile 99.68 of 625
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4
Irving Square Park
Knickerbocker Avenue, Weirfield St
523 m from Halsey Street station, metro
Photo Jim.henderson · CC0 · source listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.439, percentile 99.52 of 625
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5
Hell's Kitchen Park
10th Ave
306 m from 50th Street, metro
Photo Gryffindor · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.439, percentile 99.36 of 625
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6
Coney Island Creek Park
Bayview Ave &, W 37th St
Photo Wil540 art · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.437, percentile 99.2 of 625
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Abe Lebewohl Park
2nd Ave &, E 10th St
202 m from Ninth Street, metro
Photo BruceSchaff · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.437, percentile 99.04 of 625
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8
Joan of Arc Park
Riverside Dr., between W. 91st St. and, W 96th St
403 m from 96th Street, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.431, percentile 98.88 of 625
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Detective Joseph Mayrose Park
17th St
425 m from 16th Street, metro
Photo Jim.henderson · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.429, percentile 98.72 of 625
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10
South Oxford Park
197 S Oxford St
192 m from Cumberland Avenue, metro
Photo Clyde Charles Brown · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.428, percentile 98.56 of 625
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).