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[13] [14] The modern beach contains the Orchard Beach Nature Center, as well as two playgrounds, some basketball courts, some handball courts, and three tennis courts. [1] [15] South of the beach is a 25-acre (10 ha) meadow that hosts the only known population of the moth species Amphipoea erepta ryensis.
Orchard Beach (), a public beach, is part of Pelham Bay Park [68] and comprises the borough's only beach The 1.1-mile-long (1.8 km), 115-acre (47 ha) [ 211 ] beach faces the Long Island Sound and is laid out in a crescent shape with a width of 200 feet (61 m) during high tide. [ 212 ]
Orchard Beach Nature Center: Bronx: Bronx: New York City: Located in Pelham Bay Park, open seasonally Paul Smith's College Visitor Interpretive Center: Paul Smiths: Franklin: Adirondack Region: Operated by Paul Smith's College, about 2,700 acres Pember Museum: Granville: Washington: Adirondack Region: natural history museum and 125 preserve ...
Oct. 2—For generations, thousands of tourists have flocked to Old Orchard Beach each summer to stay in rented cottages and homes for their seaside vacations. But one town leader says the growing ...
Wave Hill is a 28-acre (11 ha) estate in the Hudson Hill section of Riverdale in the Bronx, New York City.Wave Hill currently consists of public horticultural gardens and a cultural center, all situated on the slopes overlooking the Hudson River, with expansive views across the river to the New Jersey Palisades.
Roberto Clemente State Park, originally named Harlem River State Park, opened in 1973 and was the first New York state park established in an urban setting. [3] [4]The park was renamed in 1974 for Roberto Clemente, the first Latino-American to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
The nature center will be closed Thanksgiving Day, but open for its normal hours the rest of the week, from 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Gentile said it's a popular time for visitors, with kids out of school ...
On September 15, 1995, the Inwood Hill Nature Center was dedicated and opened to the public. It is located near the park entrance on 218th Street and Indian Road, and is on a peninsula that was formerly connected to the Bronx mainland before the digging of the Harlem River Ship Canal. The center is located on Manhattan's only salt-water marsh ...