Slow Nature Fast City
A beginner's guide to noticing and exploring nature in NYC
Category: Find Nature
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Discover a meandering stream with three waterfalls in a forest. It’s only a 10-minute walk from the subway.
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If you need a moment of quiet from the City That Never Sleeps or long for an unusual sensory experience, you should visit the New York Earth Room.
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If you live in or are visiting New York City, here are a few places worthy of a visit when you are sad, desolate, or heartbroken.
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Just steps from busy 59th Street is a secret woodland that, for more than 80 years, only birds, raccoons, and the occasional coyote could visit. Now Central Park’s Hallett Nature Sanctuary is open to the public for the first time.
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Here’s an unusual way to slow down in NYC: Take a contemplative walk through a grassy labyrinth in Battery Park.
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How can you savor the Slow Life in the city that never sleeps? Make a daily visit to a green patch near your work and home. One of my favorite green spots in Manhattan is the Barrow Street Garden – a private garden of the Church of St. Luke in the Fields that is open…
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You climb a grass-covered hill and look out onto a busy harbor. The skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan rise in the distance. The iconic Statue of Liberty beckons. This is New York City’s newest and most inspiring panoramic view — the Hills of Governors Island. The Hills is a newly opened ten-acre park on Governors Island. Eight years…
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Teardrop Park is a unique public park nestled in Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan. At only 1.8 acres, it offers an incredible variety of terrain for its small size. Though surrounded on all sides by apartment buildings, Teardrop Park offers quiet and contemplative paths worthy of your exploration. Retreat into Nature in Lower Manhattan As…
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Discover the shimmering tide pools and rocky coasts of Twin Islands and Hunter Island in NYC’s largest park, Pelham Bay Park.
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If you long to sit under the shade of towering trees and listen to the splashing of a waterfall, you can find it in Brooklyn. Prospect Park’s Ravine meanders through Brooklyn’s only forest and passes a babbling stream, a verdant pool, and a fall along the way. It’s just slightly off the beaten path in…
Slow Nature Fast City 