Henry Hudson Park

It's quiet and pretty but seriously also run down. Looks like it used to be gorgeous. A surprise considering the fancy neighborhood it's in. Also the amount of people with badly behaved dogs here is super obnoxious. I get that people want to walk their dogs but you'll literally just be sitting down drinking a coffee or something really benign and people's dogs will bark violently at you or run at you top speed. Notice that dogs are allowed to be off leash for a few hours in the morning and a few hours at night. When that happens, watch out. Dog owners absolutely not responsible and let dogs run and jump at you, and they don't train their dogs to be nice so they are just terrible.

Another thing I noticed, I'm a racial minority and the people here looked absolutely terrified of me. I have not seen or felt this anywhere else in NYC. People here legit looked very concerned that I was there, actually looked SCARED. Even if I smiled and said good morning in my natural born American English accent, people would actually turn away. This was a bit unsettling to be honest. I'm a middle aged man with pants up to my chest, not some hood wearing thug-looking person.