OUTDOOR SPACE: None, though the Charles River esplanade and paths are across the street.
The esplanade's straight path ends at South Cove, an irregular realm of curving paths, boulders, wooded embankments, piers, islands and a steel mesh harbor-viewing platform reached from double staircases.
The Charles River, which has an esplanade, a bike path and a pedestrian bridge to Cambridge, is a block away.
What has emerged in its place is the Hudson River Park, a narrow necklace of piers, lawns, gardens, artwork, concession stands and athletic fields, stretching along an esplanade and bike path from the Battery to 59th Street.
The Charles River, which has an esplanade and a bike path, is about five blocks away.
The project that would seem to create the most park for the most people is that proposed by the West Side Waterfront Panel, an advisory group that is designing a network of greenery, esplanades and bicycle paths on the former Westway site along the Hudson River.
Lime trees are planted on both sides of the esplanade, and there are bicycle paths throughout.
In Battery Park City, some residents want the path along the Hudson River esplanade to be restricted to pedestrians.
The Weinmanns said they would be amenable to the city's building a bulkhead along the edge of the land's curving spit and etching a narrow path to make the esplanade continuous.
IN FRONT of the skyscrapers on the esplanade in Panama City, joggers puff along a path in the morning heat, as men and women do push-ups and bench-presses.
