On 3 Dec 2004 09:23:58 -0800, (chris) wrote:

~Hi,
~
~I am looking to go to New York next year.
~
~The wife thinks its for a shopping trip, I want to "accidentally" come
~acoss nice gardens and other green places.
~
~The obvious one is Central Park, but I would like other
~recommendations please.
~

Here's a couple of places, shown to me by a native NY friend. I'd
never have known they were there without her, and I have no hesitation
in recommending them!

The Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park.
It's a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, up at the north end of
Manhattan beyond the suspension bridge. Set in a very stylised garden
within a lovely natural park it's a total hodgepodge of bits of stolen
European medieval buildings, old bibles, fantastic works of Christian
illumination/art and the hunt of the unicorn tapestries. But it's
grounds are lovely. Bits for both history and garden lovers (though
you'd probably wince at the wanton glueing together of the poor bits
of chapels and cloisters...). Needless to say it was Rockefeller who
built it.
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Ar...ment.asp?dep=7

Wave Hill.
From there it's not far into the Bronx. You have to go there. I'm not
kidding (hey, I sent all my postcards from there to scare folk, but
the north Bronx is like Beverly Hills) as there's a beautiful house
and garden called Wave Hill, formerly the residence of one of the
presidents, can't remember which...
googles
Roosevelt. Not to mention Samuel Clements, a couple of British
Ambassadors and a few other hugely influential families.

http://www.wavehill.org/gardens/

It's Wisleyesque, with superb views over the river, and walks. The
website's quite nice - gives you a taste of the gardens as well as the
history.

Hope you have fun...

--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks!