Hudson River ParkA waterfront park from The Battery to 59th Street on Manhattan's West Side
THINGS TO DO
Biking, field sports, roller blading, skateboarding, boating, tennis, sunning, people-watching, bird-watching, fishing and trapeze. For all ages; handicapped-accessible. Hudson River Park is a 550-acre, five-mile waterfront park with an accompanying bikeway/walkway including 13 public park piers, passive and active recreation, boating, an urban marine sanctuary, habitat-enhancing landscape and free public programming and education. It is the southernmost link of the New York State Greenway from Albany to the New York Harbor. Features of interest include 1,000-foot long piers out into the Hudson River at Christopher Street and 44th Street; a park café, store and bike rentals at 44th Street, public art from 26th to 29th Streets; four new boathouses for kayaking and canoeing; sunning lawns and beautiful landscaped gardens. Also included are state-of-the-art sports fields at Pier 40 (Houston Street) and Chelsea Waterside Park (23rd Street). |
 visitor informationHudson River Park nearby attractionsIntrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, Circle Line/World Yacht, Chelsea Piers, Chelsea Art District, Meat Packing district, Jacob Javits Convention Center, Battery Park City, Museum of Jewish Heritage, National Museum of the American Indian, The Battery and Castle Clinton and the World Trade Center Memorial Site. directionsHudson River Park may be accessed up and down the length of the park. SUBWAY: Either the A/C to Chambers, Spring, West 4th or 14th Street -- or the 1/9 to Chambers, Franklin, Houston, Christopher or 14th Street. Then walk west or take a crosstown bus west on Chambers, 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd or 57th Street. CAR: take West Street to West Houston Street and park in the lot at Pier 40. BOAT: Take the ferry at Pier 79 (39th Street) Midtown Ferry Terminal or a Water Taxi (in season) at Christopher, 26th or 43rd Street. |