Dutch Kills Green — Attraction in New York

UPDATE: This park is more disgusting than ever. They have literally not picked up the trash yet this month and garbage is everywhere. Cans overflowing with dog feces and rotting food. It's to the point where it is a health hazard. Pics are from 1/24/24

Unfortunately, this area is poorly maintained and monitored and has become a dirty haven for drug dealers, teenagers getting high, and the homeless to sleep. The grounds keepers can also be incredibly rude. We pay a lot of money to live in one of the new luxury apartment buildings nearby and twice now have had our safety threatened in this "green" space. Once by a homeless man who followed me screaming obscenities and a second time by their our groundskeeper. I was just passing through with my dog (my dog was NOT going to the bathroom or on any of her "landscaped- it's a stretch to call it that - areas). She literally walked up to my dog and started yelling at my dog! Aside from this being remarkably stupid and dangerous (thankfully my pup is calm and did nothing but others may not have) I could not believe how rude this was. She then proceeded to yell and curse at me for having my dog there. The area does NOT say no dogs allowed and people routinely walk through with their dogs. The garbages are also inadequately emptied such that they are routinely overflowing with trash that litters all over the area and gets blown by our apartment. It's sad because we were excited there was a green space near our apartment but this is NOT the clean, safe, green, space they...

Gets two stars for being a green space where before was concrete. But that's it. Grass, plantings and benches sandwiched in the middle of hellish, noisy traffic, including a potent mix of truck, car horns, back ups and cabs. All this below three subway lines. It's probably as much as they could do with it without enclosing it in a glass cube, or implementing the controversial 'congestion pricing' idea or tolls for going over the bridge, in which case it would still be a hell hole, but better...

Great little park. I identified over 17 individual species of native plants and trees. I didn't do a full inventory, so in total number the of species present probably was triple that number. In terms of total overall numbers Dutch Kills Green is home to well over 100 trees, and many times that number of plants. Bird diversity was very low, however that may change as the foliage of the park matures, or during spring and...