Crocodiles can not hide in the underground city, like the urban myth says, but peregrine falcons nest on ledges of skyscrapers of Midtown, hares have been established beyond Kennedy airport runways, and coyotes roam below Westchester County in the ocean breezes Bronx.From Battery Park, where Noel Coward and nostalgia broke watched the ships sail from England in the 1920's to the woods of oak, spruce and tulip trees at the northern tip of Manhattan, New York, wildlife City sprouts and open spaces. Urban garden flower, the efforts of the community in Alphabet City - with colored lights in the summer - Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where Japanese cherry trees explode into clouds of pink wild each spring. pocket parks throughout the city, many so small you could lose in passing, have recently been carefully arranged, mostly by passionate volunteers. Some cemeteries of New York offers a Scenic Byway: Green-Wood in Brooklyn, where Boss Tweed and Lola Montez meet, and Woodlawn in the Bronx, from the late 1800's when rolling fields, forests and streams rested the deceased.Despite recently, the Bush administration wants the power to private developers, moved to Governor's Island National Park Service in 2003. It opened in 2004 for the first time since the American Revolution.New York has more than 28,000 acres (11,300 hectares) of parks, of which 10,000 acres (4,000 hectares) more or less are more or less its natural state. Autumn in New Yorkin 1609, when Henry Hudson sailed the Half Moon North River, later renamed the Hudson, his first mate, Robert Juette, wrote: "We found a land of great oaks high with herbs and flowers , as enjoyable as it always has been. "His words echo when walking through Central Park. For the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer Calvert Vaux in the 1850s, the goal was "a source of hundreds of thousands of tired workers have no opportunity to spend summers at home with a copy of the work of God. " Central Park includes the largest stand of American elms in the country, and the northern forests, a remote forest covered between 102 and 106th streets that Minnesota is more like Manhattan. The trails through a deep ravine, blocking of moss, cascades and falls between a pair of bridges. Past the beautiful rustic stone Strait Riverside Park, on the Upper West Side and fragrant herb gardens of the Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park in is one of the most isolated places on the island of Manhattan, Inwood Hill Park, an area of 196 acres (79 hectares) of trees and meadows. Wolves roamed free and native Americans are here, and about 100 acres (40 hectares) of native forest ultimate form of Manhattan. Flying squirrels and screech owls, a family of nesting in a grove of 100 feet (30 meters) of tulip trees. This part of the park is known as the Natural Area Shorakapok after an Indian village that stood between what is now twenty-fourth and twenty-seventh Municipalities streets.Outer outlookVan Cortlandt Park in the Bronx is the third largest green space in New York . Despite its 1.146 acres (446 hectares) is crossed by three main roads, some parts are so far from the rest of the city and in New England. A trail through a hardwood forest of centuries with skunks, raccoons and pheasant, another winds along Lake Van Cortlandt in a freshwater marsh with swans, herons and break the Bronx meets turtles.Where Long Island, 2764 Pelham Bay Park acres (1,118 hectares) around two golf courses, horse riding, city Mounted Police School and a glacial boulder. Religious refugee Anne Hutchinson, Massachusetts Bay colony, established in 1642, hid here from Indian attacks. The Split Rock is still a natural monument of the virgin forest and wetlands. After Goose Creek Marsh is a wildlife sanctuary for wading herons, waders and woodcocks. Lazy is greener Queens New York City, with over 7.000 acres (2.833 hectares) of parkland and more than half of the trees in the city, including the harvest Kissena Park Arboretum (the remnants of a nursery-century 19), the forest park of native red and white oaks, and majestic weeping beech. Planted in 1847, and in 1966 became the first tree designated as a historic New York landmark.Wedged between the Long Island Expressway and Grand Central Parkway in northeast Queens, about two-thirds of the 324 acres (131 hectares) Cunningham Park's natural forests, lakes and fields. Closer to shore, Alley Pond Park borders the marsh of Little Neck Bay, with forest plots totaling over 600 acres (243 hectares). The old Vanderbilt Motor Parkway was built by a noble family descended from Vanderbilt in 1908, so his career could cars and a covered section connects the two parks. The narrow gauge of the Queens County Farm Museum in Floral Park really feels like country. A 47 acres (19 hectares) of agricultural work, the museum has a country house built in 1772, a stall selling home-grown vegetables and poultry with ducks, sheep, cows and the tree grows in village pigs.A BrooklynThe oldest in New York, and his first landmark officially designated Plains is in Brooklyn. Built in 1652 by Pieter Claeson Wyckoff, a servant who became one of the most prominent citizens of the settlement, the simple house was the center of the farm carved from the marsh that formerly belonged to the Canarsie Indians. It is now a museum, which is surrounded by a small park with the foliage of the Wyckoff family are family, including a kitchen vegetable and herb garden, and a spring garden of daffodils and the park tulips.Brooklyn 's more famous is 526 acres (212 hectares) Prospect Park, designed, like Central Park by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. From the entrance at Grand Army Plaza, a road leads to the peaceful expansion of Long Meadow, a green rolling ridge extending to a dark or distant trees, part of the Gorge in the wild heart of the park. Olmsted wrote, "the contemplation of natural scenery ... is favorable to health and vigor of men." When not designing parks in other districts, Olmsted grown pear trees and vegetables on their farm in Hyland Boulevard on Staten Island. Traditionally more rural than other parts of New York, the city changed forever when the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opened to traffic three-state in 1964. Travelers whistling for want 28 miles (45 km) of superb trails Rock Park Alto de La Tourette Park, part of 2500 the Green Belt acres (1,011 hectares) of rocky outcrops and tangled woods, winding past ranch house in the suburbs and into the hand of the 20 century NecklaceFor mansions.Emerald years the dream of conservation groups has been the Manhattan ring in an "emerald necklace" of parks and tree-lined avenues. In 1998, legislation was finally signed, which created a whole city and state "public benefit corporation" and a continuous waterfront promenade and cycle path that runs along the Hudson River, most of the way up the street 155. Almost every inch of it is used by New Yorkers and people from all parts of the head of the city of Battery Park, overlooking the Statue of Liberty, walking, skating, and enjoy the wonderful words of sunsets.In late poet and curator Frank O'Hara, "You should never leave the confines of New York to view all vegetation is desired."