Riverside Park
Park
Central Park may be its polished, more famous big brother, but Riverside Park is its own refreshing kind of public space. A whole day can easily be whiled away cycling by the Hudson, paying respect to the ‘Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument, viewing talent at the skate park or breaking out roller skates for the rink on West 108th Street. Stretching for 86 blocks well beyond the Upper West Side, the oasis welcomes prodigious runners on one of the numerous trails or an amble past the promenade on West 91st Street made famous by Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks’s lovebirds in You’ve Got Mail.