I appreciate green space especially in large urban areas. The High Line is by far one of the best examples of re use and adaptation of existing structures ever envisioned. By far a bucket list location I'd love to walk. I live in NW Canada in Edmonton where we love our parks. Our Valley park is 22 times the size of Central Park and is the longest stretch of connected urban parkland in North America. At 30 miles long, It has 11 lakes, and 22 ravines. Go green.
Central park is surrounded by skyscrapers and Manhattan has a density of 69,000 people per square mile. The creation of central park was a far higher-stakes endeavor than the creation of a park anywhere else. I'm originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, and I'm pretty sure our parks along our river are many dozens of times the size of Central Park too :-)
Edmonton does have great park space, especially the river valley. I loved it when I got to check some of it out. I hope to explore more of it one day. It has some similarities to all the ravine parkland in Toronto, which are also outstanding (I may be a bit biased as I’m from Toronto, but they are really good). Calgary’s parks around the Bow River are another favourite of mine. Ravine areas always make for great green space. I have been to the High Line a couple of times too and can say you’ve picked a good bucket list place to see. It’s really cool! Definitely check it out if you can.
I love how the ideas of Parks stuck throughout the History of NYC. Without its Parks, NYC wouldn’t be like what it is now. People need a time to relax and embrace nature in all of its glorious ways where it’s in a National Park or on the High Line. Amazing Video!
Well African American and frankly several people were living there and their homes were destroyed for these paltry plots grass you are so enamored by. Not saying don't enjoy hem, just givin' some context
@@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070 Almost every park/highway requires some houses to be demolished. Central Park is controversial because it is famous and black people’s houses were demolished.
@@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070 I totally understand. I wish Seneca Village was still there. I bet it would Be Amazing to see how great it grew, but knowin the History of the Village is better than not knowin at all. Like most of our African American History
@@thekraken1173 You mean redlining is a 'good' tradition in US that started in the founding father days , to dissipate and expell minorities for 'the common good' . And if not for parks or highways, you just burn a prosperous black neighbourhood like in Tulsa 1921 . US cities all over were and are destroyed for highways. And what a disaster this turns out. neighbourhood participation and consultation : bad ! Building highways : good !
A lot of people might be surprised to hear this based on stereotypes NYC has, but it’s actually one of the most environmentally friendly cities in the US. Not only does the city invest millions in parks and maintenance, but majority of people here use public transportation instead. Almost 70% of New Yorkers use public transit (train or bus), or simply walk/ride a bike. Not to mention, a big portion of our buses here now are electric (by 2040 all buses will be zero emission) and the regular rest run on clean energy. The subway is the most sustainable transit system in North America. On top of all of this, the state has put in action a few environmental laws. For example, most places have gotten rid of plastic bags (and use paper bags instead), the city has banned gas appliances in new buildings, strict recycling laws, etc. In general, NYC is now considered one of the most sustainable cities in the world.
Sustainable to the Environment but still not to peoples safety! The Crime in NYC is horrendous! Public Transportation is environmentally good but if its disgusting versus third world Asian cities clean safe public transportation. People getting pushed into the subway Trains! A city with no Safety cautions for its city! Even Thailands Subway has a Barrier from people falling into the train tracks! It’s Ridiculous how NYC Truly is!
@@sygneg7348 Is this a joke? Do you know how crowded and congested New York is? Suburbia is peaceful, green and quiet with rarely any cars driving and if at slow speeds. Also, most modern suburbs have walkways.
@@Mr-DNA_ I really think the whole “kids need to live in the suburbs” thing is very overrated. To each their own, but as someone who grew up in the suburbs because my parents insisted that was the ideal location to raise a kid, it was peaceful, but it was also isolating, 20 minute drive minimum to any activity outside the house, and lack of opportunities because cultural and recreational activities tend to be focused in cities or immediately outside. There’s advantages for sure but it’s very overrated
"So, lots and lots of parks are in disrepair, in desperate need of funding and those are especially in low income areas. How about we do something about it?" "Yeah, no. But we could build a super expensive, small prestige project that helps only tourists and a select few. Sounds good?" *How I imagine Little Island was conceived*
Your taxpayer dollars at work in good ol nyc That tiny park will cost 2 billion dollars once the politicians, mafia, and unions are done milking it. And within a month dozens of homeless will camp out there and and blow suck and injection themselves in front of the world's tourists.
EXACTLY!....thank you for stating the first thought that popped in my mind when the video started. This is the "future of parks" that only pays lip-service to servicing nearby communities in exchange for glossy social media appeal
Central Park is surrounded by gluttonous wealth and that is what's happening with parks in all cities.. They have become the playground for the wealthy nearby residence. The greenspace inequities in low-income areas is appalling all across this country
Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive vanity projects like parks build over a river, just buy the cheapest plots of land in areas that don't have enough green space and convert them to parks. Plenty of abandoned warehouses, derelict apartment complexes, and shuttered commercial buildings throughout the city can be bought and replaced with parks. Would significantly increase green space in lower-income areas and shouldn't cost that much (as you're literally planting trees and grass and maybe a playground).
As a economically conservative person, I have to agree. Many areas of Brooklyn and queens have these disgusting old industrial complexes which are a blight and danger to the community. This is one of the few government projects I'd fully support.
I feel like those places should be converted to high-rise middle class housing. Parks are nice and all, but they won't fix the housing crisis and almost all new developments are targeted towards the 1% foreign investors. Adding more parks will just create excuses for landlords around that area to increase rent even more. Just look at what happened around the High Line. Tiny apartments in the middle of nowhere that are a long block from the High Line charge $1k+ over the market rates.
@@darkwoodmovies hard to fix the housing crisis with how expensive everything is in nyc, especially housing in general. I fled the city 2 years ago and my mortgage was my least of my worries when it came to expenses lmao
@@darkwoodmovies most can be converted to housing, but it won't hurt buying a few properties here and there for parks. it's not too expensive to build parks and would definitely improve the surrounding neighborhood (as would new housing). and there should be new pocket parks as well - really small green spaces (maybe just a 5000 sq. ft. lot) with a small lawn, a couple of picnic benches, and a few trees, where people can hang out and play without walking too far.
Sounds like what would be good is taking those resources and using some for parks, some for environmentally friendly low and middle income housing projects (with lots of greenery built into the buildings) and some for community hubs to connect and foster community across the local population.
I've been living in nyc my entire life (21) and I've yet to visit the high rise, I'll probably check it out this summer, working all around nyc makes me realize how amazing parks can be. I'm an irrigation technician, so keeping plants and trees alive in this city is my job.
Thank you for acknowledging Seneca Village and the historical use of imminent domain by this country to destroy thriving black communities. The High Line is one of my favorite things about NYC.
I love how every video about central park but it's actually one of the smallest ones Pelham Bay park in The Bronx is the largest public park with natural Forest and wooden areas .....
@@JDBass36 also The Bronx isn't all hood are you from Ny even?! Cuz the entire borough isn't all hood you have a lot of up fluent neighborhood's and middle-class if you not from The Bronx just say that
@@shawnhall9792 Of course I'm from the Bronx! Grand Concourse And Fordham RD Very rarely anything positive is spoken about The Bronx. And yes there are a few areas like any area in any city has there feel spots. But that's a handful. The majority of the Bronx is somewhat poor compared to any other parts of NYC and is extremely underfunded. We're the last to receive anything
@@JDBass36 I'm from The Bronx but it's annoying that the focus is always on central park when there's so many other parks in NYC that are natural and so much better but they'll never get the love which is ridiculous . Bronx park is another park that is one of the largest Van cortlandt is the 3rd largest park in NYC after Staten Islands park but they never get mentioned hell the Bronx zoo and the new York botanical garden are on the land of Bronx park
Beautiful video, parks are an essential part to NYC and what's makes our city what it is. People think it's JUST the skyscrapers but the parks are what shape our skylines and makes it economic viable to build tall around the surrounding area in the first place.
Little Island (the thumbnail) is a pretty fun park to go to when it’s not completely overflowing with people. Perfect place to go after eating at Chelsea Markert
Native New Yorker here and the High Line is gorgeous! I live relatively nearby Flushing Meadows Corona Park and it is another wonderful New York City institution.
There were entire towns and villages in upstate NY that were uprooted and flooded in order to build the canal that feeds water into NYC. And there's "civil forfeiture" happening everyday right now, and that's something more pressing to worry about that cops can just steal people's money and not give it back.
Brooklyn lost a ton of trees many years ago due to a bad fungus spreading. A lot would die then get dried out. Residents starting to file with the city to cut them down in fears of them falling onto the street. Also hurricane sandy knocked whatever was left in 2011. They seemed to give up replacing them. Seems every-time a house sells these days first thing the new owner does it cut all the backyard tree and puts in all concrete over the grass. I miss the late 80s. =(
Trees break branches during storms and hurricanes, which results in millions in damage when they land on cars and shops (less cost to the city and more to private citizens who can't afford it) and can also kill or wound people. They also collect snow and the weight of that also leads to broken branches and millions in damage. You need to think these things through before implementing ideas.
There are so many beautiful parks here in NYC. I love it! We are much more than a bustling city. NYS in general is lovely. The weather can be rough,but otherwise NYS is my absolute favorite state and I've lived in many.
Went to NYC recently, and I gotta say the Little Island in the thumbnail is kinda awful public park design- it’s small, you have to pay and reserve ahead to get in, and the waitlist is huge. It’s just not accessible at all, it’s not a space everyone can enjoy and appreciate. The High Line on the other hand was beautiful, I loved it.
I’m happy someone finally mentioned Seneca Village, although he briefly touch on it … bc of its dark past I believe it’s important to know how valuable Seneca village is in our history.
I feel like it was a mistake not for trains to reclaim the old railway tracks. Trains are the most efficient way to move a large volume of people over long distances and while NYC has some of the bets infrastructure in the country, it's no Tokyo
I agree. Though it'll still be available for future transportation use if the opportunity presents itself. Maybe a elevated trolley or people mover for midtown/downtown.
yup, I was mad when they first opened the high line again as a park. The amount of trucks driving from Newark NJ port, through the Washington bridge, then they take the local avenues all the way downtown as there are no highways that allow trucks. All those trucks driving near bike lanes when one train would reduce all that traffic. Yes it could have been a light rail too. Now the actual design of the high line park looks nice but the walking path is very narrow. When its crowded hard to get around people. You can't walk on the full width as the grass areas are gated off.
What they did with the High Line sounds like what we did to get our pedestrian bridge between Louisville, KY and Jeffersonville, IN. It’s not as much as a green space as the High Line is now (though both ends have parks around them), but it still repurposed a then neglected railroad bridge in ways that benefit the community.
I love how on a video on parks, The Bronx is snubbed by Cheddar once again. Seriously, we get no love from any of these yuppies and we have the biggest parks of all NYC (Van Cortlandt Park and Pelham Bay Park). It's high time that Cheddar start making videos about The Bronx.
yuppies are always 30 years behind everyone else yet claim they "found" something first. First they made downtown Manahattan their spot. Then rents surged stupid by early 2000's i asked a friend why wouldn't you live in Brooklyn where its cheaper. They made fun of me for not wanting to live in manhattan for years and weren't interest until Brooklyn had other yuppies and the rent was high then they moved. lol Then parts of queens was next. When rent is 4k a month in the Bronx then Cheddar will make the video saying its up and coming... They all say location location location yet all the yuppies keep moving together to the same areas.
I saw a photo on Instagram about a park that's bigger than Central Park. It's in San Francisco. The biggest park in the US of A, not just the biggest one by the bay. There are more masterpieces which are better!
Of course parks are falling apart, the city spent 2 million dollars on a bathroom that shouldn't have cost more then 250k... within a yr the bathroom was falling apart
I can't help but feel this is intended for a lay audience. Everything is in simple terms, and some things are explained that don't necessarily need to be.
NYC is more than just Manhattan. At least cover all the big parks in the five boroughs and cover some stats. I know the format is kind of like Discovery channel edutainment but even a few minutes of journalistic research editing and coverage of the topic would be better than this in 12 minutes. Especially some of the other topics were decently covered.
.The freight trains on the highline weren't bringing ready-to-eat food that could be unloaded and taken down to the corner deli. They were bringing in cows, pigs, and chickens to be slaughtered and packed in the factories surrounding it. Nowadays that industry has moved out of Manhattan, so you don't need the massive capacity of freight trains, trucks do fine.
A green space over a river could be interesting. Is it possible for micro infrastructure like solar-powered lights, and water pumps. That pump, and purify river water then spray in on the plant's in the elevated park possible. As the river should have unlimited water.
I heard there was a similar plan to convert an old subway station into an underground park, they ran out of money and I guess was canceled even before the pandemic
Parks are wonderful and NYC, just most other cities, could do with more of them. The city also has unique opportunities to create wetlands and new artificial reefs and public beaches too. What I'd really love to see is an effort to green the streets and buildings of the city - take off that harsh edge of the city and moderate it with streets lined with trees/planter boxes (especially plants that don't die in the harsh winters - so native plants would be vital), and green foliage on buildings and the community encouraged to have as much greenery on their premises as possible. All of these things can help lower the temperature, improve the quality of life, encourage wildlife to return to the city (ooh and could you imagine - helping to tackle the rat problem!) fight climate change and generally make the city much nicer to live in. However, it will never, ever happen.
Lots of real estate on the roof tops too. Create a lattice network of bridged gardens across the roofs and let people rent plots to grow their own vegetables.
I would amend the laws in New York City that would force conservancies to care for ALL of the parks in the New York City area, and not just a few of the parks, thus, by doing that, the parks would be maintained better, quicker, faster, and more often than they are now. I would also get homeless people jobs in repairing and maintaining the parks (unless they are the lazy, drugged up, and/or drunken types that flat out refuse to work), and I would also get prisoners in the city, borough/county jails, Ryker's Island, and other prisons to do maintenance to the parks as well, and also pay them decent wages! The reason that I say that prisoners need decent wages is that, if the prisoners have committed crimes that have a monetary component, then paying them more money makes them better able to pay off the debts that they not only have to the state and local authorities, but also to the parties that they had wronged in their pasts. Moreover, it also provides them hope, a chance at a good life after their sentences are over, and it also provides them with valuable life skills, as well as a career path, in their lives.
I wonder if there will be a time when one architect will either reuse an existing building or make a new skyscraper to become a vertical open space like a park with hanging gardens and greenery growing on the infrastructure.
Not only do we need to renovate and maybe add a few parks, we need to start planting trees on every city block. I always hear the argument "oh the roots and branches are destructive". I'd rather worry about root and tree damage than frying to death. Its getting hotter year by year in new york. I thought it was only me, I was getting older, but it turns out many other people have felt the same and apparently there are facts to back these claims up, so what the hell are we waiting for?
2:18 Philip fucking Jabouin! I WAS WONDERING WTF HAPPENED TO YOU! IT'S JORGE! (YOU KNOW WHO). I hung out with him and Evens Jean-Gilles in elementary school. Holy shit! I never thought i'd see him again.
We need more than parks to make it in an urban environment. Clean restrooms for one. Adequate seating around the city, for people to rest their legs. The malls need a major revamp, too. Currently they’re just a cluster of luxury brands and shitty restaurants. The mall should be a sort of indoor park. A place to go and loiter on a day off.
Disagree, but they really need to crack down on smoking in parks. It can really disturb the experience. They formally banned it this summer, but nothing has changed
I appreciate green space especially in large urban areas. The High Line is by far one of the best examples of re use and adaptation of existing structures ever envisioned. By far a bucket list location I'd love to walk. I live in NW Canada in Edmonton where we love our parks. Our Valley park is 22 times the size of Central Park and is the longest stretch of connected urban parkland in North America. At 30 miles long, It has 11 lakes, and 22 ravines. Go green.
Central park is surrounded by skyscrapers and Manhattan has a density of 69,000 people per square mile. The creation of central park was a far higher-stakes endeavor than the creation of a park anywhere else. I'm originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, and I'm pretty sure our parks along our river are many dozens of times the size of Central Park too :-)
I am pretty sure Antarctica is bigger than Edmonton’s Valley park.
atlanta has the beltline its amazing
Edmonton does have great park space, especially the river valley. I loved it when I got to check some of it out. I hope to explore more of it one day. It has some similarities to all the ravine parkland in Toronto, which are also outstanding (I may be a bit biased as I’m from Toronto, but they are really good). Calgary’s parks around the Bow River are another favourite of mine. Ravine areas always make for great green space. I have been to the High Line a couple of times too and can say you’ve picked a good bucket list place to see. It’s really cool! Definitely check it out if you can.
Edmonton is far less dense then Manhattan or NYC. In fact I would describe it as a large suburb.
I love how the ideas of Parks stuck throughout the History of NYC. Without its Parks, NYC wouldn’t be like what it is now. People need a time to relax and embrace nature in all of its glorious ways where it’s in a National Park or on the High Line. Amazing Video!
Appreciate it! And it all started with a peppercorn.
Well African American and frankly several people were living there and their homes were destroyed for these paltry plots grass you are so enamored by. Not saying don't enjoy hem, just givin' some context
@@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070 Almost every park/highway requires some houses to be demolished. Central Park is controversial because it is famous and black people’s houses were demolished.
@@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070 I totally understand. I wish Seneca Village was still there. I bet it would Be Amazing to see how great it grew, but knowin the History of the Village is better than not knowin at all. Like most of our African American History
@@thekraken1173 You mean redlining is a 'good' tradition in US that started in the founding father days , to dissipate and expell minorities for 'the common good' .
And if not for parks or highways, you just burn a prosperous black neighbourhood like in Tulsa 1921 .
US cities all over were and are destroyed for highways. And what a disaster this turns out.
neighbourhood participation and consultation : bad ! Building highways : good !
A lot of people might be surprised to hear this based on stereotypes NYC has, but it’s actually one of the most environmentally friendly cities in the US. Not only does the city invest millions in parks and maintenance, but majority of people here use public transportation instead. Almost 70% of New Yorkers use public transit (train or bus), or simply walk/ride a bike. Not to mention, a big portion of our buses here now are electric (by 2040 all buses will be zero emission) and the regular rest run on clean energy. The subway is the most sustainable transit system in North America. On top of all of this, the state has put in action a few environmental laws. For example, most places have gotten rid of plastic bags (and use paper bags instead), the city has banned gas appliances in new buildings, strict recycling laws, etc. In general, NYC is now considered one of the most sustainable cities in the world.
I’m not surprised at all. Most urban areas are way more environmentally friendly than suburban and rural areas.
Exactly. A small, concentrated impact on the environment is far better than a sprawling suburban/rural one with big houses and lawns.
@@jacob_e_lynch lmao, electric buses are a scam and a waste of money.
@@organizedchaos4559 He didn't even mention electric busses.
Sustainable to the Environment but still not to peoples safety! The Crime in NYC is horrendous! Public Transportation is environmentally good but if its disgusting versus third world Asian cities clean safe public transportation. People getting pushed into the subway Trains! A city with no Safety cautions for its city! Even Thailands Subway has a Barrier from people falling into the train tracks! It’s Ridiculous how NYC Truly is!
Being a life long new Yorker can't stress enough how important parks are. Now more than ever after having 2 little kids.
tbh if you have kids it's best to move to the suburbs.
@@Mr-DNA_ yeah, just like all the protection gear they need for avoiding getting hit by cars while they navigate the maze of suburbia.
@@sygneg7348 Is this a joke? Do you know how crowded and congested New York is? Suburbia is peaceful, green and quiet with rarely any cars driving and if at slow speeds. Also, most modern suburbs have walkways.
@@Mr-DNA_ I really think the whole “kids need to live in the suburbs” thing is very overrated. To each their own, but as someone who grew up in the suburbs because my parents insisted that was the ideal location to raise a kid, it was peaceful, but it was also isolating, 20 minute drive minimum to any activity outside the house, and lack of opportunities because cultural and recreational activities tend to be focused in cities or immediately outside. There’s advantages for sure but it’s very overrated
@@Mr-DNA_ Perhaps some parents prefer to spend as much time as possible with their children, instead of spending time commuting.
Taunting NYers rn when it’s still cold outside
"So, lots and lots of parks are in disrepair, in desperate need of funding and those are especially in low income areas. How about we do something about it?"
"Yeah, no. But we could build a super expensive, small prestige project that helps only tourists and a select few. Sounds good?"
*How I imagine Little Island was conceived*
Your taxpayer dollars at work in good ol nyc
That tiny park will cost 2 billion dollars once the politicians, mafia, and unions are done milking it. And within a month dozens of homeless will camp out there and and blow suck and injection themselves in front of the world's tourists.
New York needs to raise taxes such each person pays $71k a year.
EXACTLY!....thank you for stating the first thought that popped in my mind when the video started. This is the "future of parks" that only pays lip-service to servicing nearby communities in exchange for glossy social media appeal
Wasn't little island donated to the city or something like that?
@@JuzNyc yeah Lol
Central Park is surrounded by gluttonous wealth and that is what's happening with parks in all cities.. They have become the playground for the wealthy nearby residence. The greenspace inequities in low-income areas is appalling all across this country
Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive vanity projects like parks build over a river, just buy the cheapest plots of land in areas that don't have enough green space and convert them to parks. Plenty of abandoned warehouses, derelict apartment complexes, and shuttered commercial buildings throughout the city can be bought and replaced with parks. Would significantly increase green space in lower-income areas and shouldn't cost that much (as you're literally planting trees and grass and maybe a playground).
As a economically conservative person, I have to agree. Many areas of Brooklyn and queens have these disgusting old industrial complexes which are a blight and danger to the community. This is one of the few government projects I'd fully support.
I feel like those places should be converted to high-rise middle class housing. Parks are nice and all, but they won't fix the housing crisis and almost all new developments are targeted towards the 1% foreign investors. Adding more parks will just create excuses for landlords around that area to increase rent even more.
Just look at what happened around the High Line. Tiny apartments in the middle of nowhere that are a long block from the High Line charge $1k+ over the market rates.
@@darkwoodmovies hard to fix the housing crisis with how expensive everything is in nyc, especially housing in general. I fled the city 2 years ago and my mortgage was my least of my worries when it came to expenses lmao
@@darkwoodmovies most can be converted to housing, but it won't hurt buying a few properties here and there for parks. it's not too expensive to build parks and would definitely improve the surrounding neighborhood (as would new housing). and there should be new pocket parks as well - really small green spaces (maybe just a 5000 sq. ft. lot) with a small lawn, a couple of picnic benches, and a few trees, where people can hang out and play without walking too far.
Sounds like what would be good is taking those resources and using some for parks, some for environmentally friendly low and middle income housing projects (with lots of greenery built into the buildings) and some for community hubs to connect and foster community across the local population.
I've been living in nyc my entire life (21) and I've yet to visit the high rise, I'll probably check it out this summer, working all around nyc makes me realize how amazing parks can be. I'm an irrigation technician, so keeping plants and trees alive in this city is my job.
i´d imagine a city like ny would be a dystopian wasteland if there wasn´t any parks, good thing that they are adapting too
@Colin Willis where would that be in nyc? I see parks in every black neighborhood honestly
@Colin Willis what´s your point?
@Colin Willis there are parks in bedstuy and Bushwick can't really say anything about the other neighborhoods because I don't go there
@Colin Willis partially, yet not quiet a wasteland at least
They have a massive one in the middle of the city 😆
Thank you for acknowledging Seneca Village and the historical use of imminent domain by this country to destroy thriving black communities. The High Line is one of my favorite things about NYC.
I love the High Line. The mix of the greenery with the interesting architecture along the path really is a treat.
Thank you for mentioning the Seneca Village💯
I love how every video about central park but it's actually one of the smallest ones Pelham Bay park in The Bronx is the largest public park with natural Forest and wooden areas .....
It's because the Bronx is in the hood. Poorest part of NYC
They don't want to glorify uptown quite as much as downtown
@@JDBass36 it does not matter it still has the largest public park point blank
@@JDBass36 also The Bronx isn't all hood are you from Ny even?! Cuz the entire borough isn't all hood you have a lot of up fluent neighborhood's and middle-class if you not from The Bronx just say that
@@shawnhall9792 Of course I'm from the Bronx! Grand Concourse And Fordham RD
Very rarely anything positive is spoken about The Bronx.
And yes there are a few areas like any area in any city has there feel spots. But that's a handful.
The majority of the Bronx is somewhat poor compared to any other parts of NYC and is extremely underfunded. We're the last to receive anything
@@JDBass36 I'm from The Bronx but it's annoying that the focus is always on central park when there's so many other parks in NYC that are natural and so much better but they'll never get the love which is ridiculous . Bronx park is another park that is one of the largest Van cortlandt is the 3rd largest park in NYC after Staten Islands park but they never get mentioned hell the Bronx zoo and the new York botanical garden are on the land of Bronx park
Beautiful video, parks are an essential part to NYC and what's makes our city what it is. People think it's JUST the skyscrapers but the parks are what shape our skylines and makes it economic viable to build tall around the surrounding area in the first place.
I really love this series. Keep the episodes coming!
Two more!
Then a whole new season in the fall
@@cheddar Transportation department hopefully?? 🤞🏾🤞🏾
Little Island (the thumbnail) is a pretty fun park to go to when it’s not completely overflowing with people. Perfect place to go after eating at Chelsea Markert
The highline is a great place to hang out in the summer. Sunset view is very good.
NYC has many big parks in the other boroughs. A subway ride away.
Native New Yorker here and the High Line is gorgeous!
I live relatively nearby Flushing Meadows Corona Park and it is another wonderful New York City institution.
Yea each borough has there own nice park
Manhattan : Central Park
Queens : flushing park
Bronx : vancorlat park
Brooklyn : park slope park
I can no longer disconnect Central Park from a deep awareness of Seneca Village. I hope those families found some sort of recompense.
There were entire towns and villages in upstate NY that were uprooted and flooded in order to build the canal that feeds water into NYC. And there's "civil forfeiture" happening everyday right now, and that's something more pressing to worry about that cops can just steal people's money and not give it back.
New York should cover its streets with trees more.
Brooklyn lost a ton of trees many years ago due to a bad fungus spreading. A lot would die then get dried out. Residents starting to file with the city to cut them down in fears of them falling onto the street. Also hurricane sandy knocked whatever was left in 2011. They seemed to give up replacing them. Seems every-time a house sells these days first thing the new owner does it cut all the backyard tree and puts in all concrete over the grass. I miss the late 80s. =(
@@kennyadvocat yea in my neighborhood I remember there were so many giant trees but sadly they all got cut down
Trees break branches during storms and hurricanes, which results in millions in damage when they land on cars and shops (less cost to the city and more to private citizens who can't afford it) and can also kill or wound people. They also collect snow and the weight of that also leads to broken branches and millions in damage. You need to think these things through before implementing ideas.
Misleading title, it should say Manhattan instead of NYC
There are so many beautiful parks here in NYC. I love it! We are much more than a bustling city. NYS in general is lovely. The weather can be rough,but otherwise NYS is my absolute favorite state and I've lived in many.
Why do I feel like I'm watching a mix of History Channel's How it's Made and The Onion?
As a student of landscape architecture, this is truly inspiring idea
Went to NYC recently, and I gotta say the Little Island in the thumbnail is kinda awful public park design- it’s small, you have to pay and reserve ahead to get in, and the waitlist is huge. It’s just not accessible at all, it’s not a space everyone can enjoy and appreciate.
The High Line on the other hand was beautiful, I loved it.
It was actually not public land, it was private land that was donated to be used as a park.
Someone scammed you, because the park is free. You just have to make reservations on certain days.
I’m happy someone finally mentioned Seneca Village, although he briefly touch on it … bc of its dark past I believe it’s important to know how valuable Seneca village is in our history.
I feel like it was a mistake not for trains to reclaim the old railway tracks. Trains are the most efficient way to move a large volume of people over long distances and while NYC has some of the bets infrastructure in the country, it's no Tokyo
I agree. Though it'll still be available for future transportation use if the opportunity presents itself. Maybe a elevated trolley or people mover for midtown/downtown.
yup, I was mad when they first opened the high line again as a park. The amount of trucks driving from Newark NJ port, through the Washington bridge, then they take the local avenues all the way downtown as there are no highways that allow trucks. All those trucks driving near bike lanes when one train would reduce all that traffic. Yes it could have been a light rail too. Now the actual design of the high line park looks nice but the walking path is very narrow. When its crowded hard to get around people. You can't walk on the full width as the grass areas are gated off.
The report is very much appreciated. Can’t wait to see more of this content from other places.
What they did with the High Line sounds like what we did to get our pedestrian bridge between Louisville, KY and Jeffersonville, IN. It’s not as much as a green space as the High Line is now (though both ends have parks around them), but it still repurposed a then neglected railroad bridge in ways that benefit the community.
There's a similar bridge between Cincinnati, OH and Newport, KY. Its nickname is the "Purple People Bridge".
@@davidfrischknecht8261 oh that’s a delight of a name! 😁
1:05 what park is that??
This video is giving early 2000s documentary vines
Great vid. But why did you make a thumbnail with a picture of a park you did not mention/ go over at all?? And it’s such an amazing park!
5:27 cause the east coast is so humid
Did I miss it or did you guys not touch on the park in the thumbnail at all?
Perhaps New York also needs more green rooftops.
You're forgetting that NY snows. It would just kill most of the plants, or the collecting weight would be a safety risk.
I love how on a video on parks, The Bronx is snubbed by Cheddar once again. Seriously, we get no love from any of these yuppies and we have the biggest parks of all NYC (Van Cortlandt Park and Pelham Bay Park). It's high time that Cheddar start making videos about The Bronx.
and pelham bay is bigger than central park
yuppies are always 30 years behind everyone else yet claim they "found" something first. First they made downtown Manahattan their spot. Then rents surged stupid by early 2000's i asked a friend why wouldn't you live in Brooklyn where its cheaper. They made fun of me for not wanting to live in manhattan for years and weren't interest until Brooklyn had other yuppies and the rent was high then they moved. lol Then parts of queens was next. When rent is 4k a month in the Bronx then Cheddar will make the video saying its up and coming... They all say location location location yet all the yuppies keep moving together to the same areas.
Great video but this should be called, “Why NYC has parks” instead.
I saw a photo on Instagram about a park that's bigger than Central Park. It's in San Francisco. The biggest park in the US of A, not just the biggest one by the bay. There are more masterpieces which are better!
Everyone from New York: Oh wow you can see so far in Central Park
Me, thinking you can't see all that far: O_O
Of course parks are falling apart, the city spent 2 million dollars on a bathroom that shouldn't have cost more then 250k... within a yr the bathroom was falling apart
I can't help but feel this is intended for a lay audience. Everything is in simple terms, and some things are explained that don't necessarily need to be.
Welcome to cheddar!
NYC is more than just Manhattan. At least cover all the big parks in the five boroughs and cover some stats. I know the format is kind of like Discovery channel edutainment but even a few minutes of journalistic research editing and coverage of the topic would be better than this in 12 minutes. Especially some of the other topics were decently covered.
Those episodes are available on Magellan I believe i used to subscribe it but I cancelled as I can find all the videos online
I simply loved when he said that parks are not anymore seen as a just nice thing to have... they are a critical city infrastructure!
So what do they use to bring in Food into City.
If they are not using trains ?
.The freight trains on the highline weren't bringing ready-to-eat food that could be unloaded and taken down to the corner deli. They were bringing in cows, pigs, and chickens to be slaughtered and packed in the factories surrounding it.
Nowadays that industry has moved out of Manhattan, so you don't need the massive capacity of freight trains, trucks do fine.
“Imminent domain” is used loosely here, they just took it from people
yes, that's how eminent domain works...
@@r3d0c nah it requires fair payment. Nobody was compensated here but thanks for your thoughts
A green space over a river could be interesting. Is it possible for micro infrastructure like solar-powered lights, and water pumps. That pump, and purify river water then spray in on the plant's in the elevated park possible. As the river should have unlimited water.
0:07 So why is cycling being watered down in the capital?
I heard there was a similar plan to convert an old subway station into an underground park, they ran out of money and I guess was canceled even before the pandemic
Hey @cheddar, I dare you to do videos on Cleveland.
Parks are wonderful and NYC, just most other cities, could do with more of them. The city also has unique opportunities to create wetlands and new artificial reefs and public beaches too. What I'd really love to see is an effort to green the streets and buildings of the city - take off that harsh edge of the city and moderate it with streets lined with trees/planter boxes (especially plants that don't die in the harsh winters - so native plants would be vital), and green foliage on buildings and the community encouraged to have as much greenery on their premises as possible. All of these things can help lower the temperature, improve the quality of life, encourage wildlife to return to the city (ooh and could you imagine - helping to tackle the rat problem!) fight climate change and generally make the city much nicer to live in. However, it will never, ever happen.
The Twin Cities in Minnesota is perhaps one of the best blends of urban and park building in the USA, if not the world.
Honestly can’t stand the old cable TV documentary style that the past few vids have used
who is narrating this? he sounds incredibly familiar
omg is it the How Its Made guy?
@@stevesmith1810 if he isn't he sounds exactly the same
His name is Allen Farmer, and no, he is not the How It's Made guy lol
Haha lol
@@cheddar why so serious 🧐 jk lol 😂
watched the whole video, not one mention of nyc reinventing its parks. 10/10 clickbait, well done
No mention of reinventing parks *or* of the park in the thumbnail, lol.
Lots of real estate on the roof tops too. Create a lattice network of bridged gardens across the roofs and let people rent plots to grow their own vegetables.
The marble mountain theme hit me 😢
Something about this narration makes the video seem about 2 decades old
The park ranger was high for this interview
@3:56 Of course.
Central Park is enough to make a big difference on city planning in the world
When I think of New York City I actually think of it being underwater in a few years.
Maybe in a century or three, but now in a few years.
NYC needs to welcome new ideas for park maintenance involvement.
I would amend the laws in New York City that would force conservancies to care for ALL of the parks in the New York City area, and not just a few of the parks, thus, by doing that, the parks would be maintained better, quicker, faster, and more often than they are now. I would also get homeless people jobs in repairing and maintaining the parks (unless they are the lazy, drugged up, and/or drunken types that flat out refuse to work), and I would also get prisoners in the city, borough/county jails, Ryker's Island, and other prisons to do maintenance to the parks as well, and also pay them decent wages! The reason that I say that prisoners need decent wages is that, if the prisoners have committed crimes that have a monetary component, then paying them more money makes them better able to pay off the debts that they not only have to the state and local authorities, but also to the parties that they had wronged in their pasts. Moreover, it also provides them hope, a chance at a good life after their sentences are over, and it also provides them with valuable life skills, as well as a career path, in their lives.
I almost got to visit one of these when I went to New York and I really wish I did, still a great place though!
Why was the portion about Betsy Head Park and the women's running club omitted? Definitely not right!!!!!!
Is the narrator the narrator from How It's Made or maybe some Discovery Channel show? He sounds so familiar...
Wished we had something like this in LA
Crazy big giant park in the middle of the city
living in different areas, heat index definitely plays out in redlining.
I wonder if there will be a time when one architect will either reuse an existing building or make a new skyscraper to become a vertical open space like a park with hanging gardens and greenery growing on the infrastructure.
Not only do we need to renovate and maybe add a few parks, we need to start planting trees on every city block. I always hear the argument "oh the roots and branches are destructive". I'd rather worry about root and tree damage than frying to death.
Its getting hotter year by year in new york. I thought it was only me, I was getting older, but it turns out many other people have felt the same and apparently there are facts to back these claims up, so what the hell are we waiting for?
With what I'm paying in taxes to the CITY alone, the parks should be paved with golden sidewalks.
yo that's tuff man, lmao people need to stop romanticizing NYC
@@lenningradgeneroso6066 I mean, there's no other city in the USA to move to. Maybe LA but I don't like being in a car all the time.
Ngl, I miss the og voice/reporter.
10/10 narrator
Cousin Jeffrey works for the Parks Department according to Uncle Leo.
NYC should work on their rising crime problem. However, I appreciate your videos, Cheddar
Who’s responsible narrating this? I demand the person’s name cuz this is awesome!!!
Allen Farmer!
2:18 Philip fucking Jabouin! I WAS WONDERING WTF HAPPENED TO YOU! IT'S JORGE! (YOU KNOW WHO). I hung out with him and Evens Jean-Gilles in elementary school.
Holy shit! I never thought i'd see him again.
I bet the mom at 0:39 gets upset when she gets a powdered donut instead of a glazed.
Nice one 👍
We need more than parks to make it in an urban environment. Clean restrooms for one. Adequate seating around the city, for people to rest their legs. The malls need a major revamp, too. Currently they’re just a cluster of luxury brands and shitty restaurants. The mall should be a sort of indoor park. A place to go and loiter on a day off.
Literally Coruscant
I love turning off the waterfalls in central park on april 1st
is that the how things are made narrator?
Why is Cheddar constantly covering the same exact topics? They used to be more broad and now it's just the same old...
Only 7000? Surely they need OVER 9000!!!
The music in this video is abysmal. Too prominent. fast paced and loud.
Ok so
When the narrator is “keeping it real.” Dave Chapelle fans will know
my lords keep cutting down our insulating trees and bushes!!!!! give people control over their own homes! no more evictions from primary residences!
Yea its really small and super crowded. Same with the highline
Maybe they should invest in upgrading their electrical grid.
Check out the Power Broker. If you're into parks and history of NY parks, it's probably worth you looking into. 🌎
Why is this shot, voiced, and edited like a 2009 Discovery channel documentary?
Is that a bad thing? I think not kelso.
Get hip or slip
Seneca barely got a mention...
Very neat!! :)
This is borderline clickbait-y but a nice video nonetheless
The only thing New York city parks need is armed security.
Disagree, but they really need to crack down on smoking in parks. It can really disturb the experience.
They formally banned it this summer, but nothing has changed