According to the Department of Parks and Recreation, its small patch of grass and playground is the highest point of land on the island of Manhattan, clocking in at 265.05 feet above sea level.
The park, part of which is officially the state-run Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, offers stretches of grass, a playground with fountain, rocky beach (no swimming) and arresting views of the two bridges and the Manhattan skyline that attracts a phalanx of photographers at sunset.
The video shows officers driving a patrol car on to the grass of a playground and seconds later shooting Rice twice in the stomach.
You can eat in its spacious courtyard or walk to the grass near the playground at the nearby Parc Royale (Rue du Parc Royale, Third Arrondissement; until Sept. 1, the courtyard is closed and the Café Suédois is serving ice cream in the garden, whose entrance is on Rue Elzevir).
It got back to him that I had a crush on him and one day, out of the blue, he walked right up to me, flipped his hair bangs, and was like "can I talk to you?" He led me over to a dead patch of grass on the playground and was like "do you wanna go out?" My eyes welled up because I was so happy and I said "really??" And then he laughed and was like "no," and walked back to his friends.
Still, the days when Central Park's meadows were expanses of mud, not thick grass, and its playgrounds were filled with litter and inhabited by homeless people are not far from anybody's memory.
Across a nearby rectangle of grass is a kids' playground, built around a mock stone circle and a climbing frame intended to look like a Spanish galleon.
Then they started giving her messages to take to all the people they knew in the hereafter, and also a few messages about things like needing better school lunches, a swimming pool and a playground with grass instead of gravel.
But to many residents in and around the two sprawling apartment complexes owned by New York University, these oblong borders of grass, trees and paved playground are precious parkland, spots to sit under an oak's shade, savor bird song, teach a child to skate, or cultivate roses.
About 200 people who no longer have a place to call home are camping on the grass beside a primary school playground.
