Parks and other greenspace

Parks, Groves, Squares, Fairgrounds, Ballfields, etc. - Past and Present

Lansingburgh - Present
• Village Green (between 112th and 113th streets and West Park and East Park lanes)
• Powers Park (between 110th and 111th streets and 2nd and 3rd avenues)
• Knickerbacker Park° Knickerbacker Pool at Knickerbacker Park
• Cahrenger Stadium (326 Roosevelt Avenue)
• Uncle Sam Bikeway http://www.troyny.gov/Departments/Parks_Recreation/Bikeways.aspx
• Herman Melville Park (a private park owned by the Lansingburgh Historical Society)
• 120th Street Park (between 1st Avenue and 1st Avenue Alley)
• 123rd Street Boat Launch• James T. Ellett Memorial Park (opposite 166 2nd Avenue)
• 9/11 Memorial Park (112th Street and 1st Avenue)
• Freedom Square (northwest corner of 5th Avenue and 101st Street) http://www.freedomsquare.info
• RiverSpark – Hudson Mohawk Urban Cultural Park (encompassing most of the Village of Lansingburgh)
• Hudson River Vista (a stretch of the riverfront roughly from 103rd Street to 107th Street)

Lansingburgh - Past
• Bath House• Rensselaer Park http://www.lostamusementparks.napha.org/Articles/NewYork/RensselaerPark-NY.html
• Judson's Park (between Hudson River and 1st Avenue, between 118th and 119th streets)
• Lansing's Grove (now Pleasantdale)
• Fane's Grove (Oil Mill Hill)
• Young's Grove (1874-1911) (south of Rensselaer Park)
• Lutzelberger Grove (1869-1874) (predecessor of Young's Grove)
• Vail's Lot
• Filkins' Grove (Speigletown)
• Bates Grove (in Cooksboro area of Pittstown, though often referenced as being in Speigletown or Melrose; now home to North Troy Stag Rod & Gun Club on Bates Grove Lane north of Cushman Road.)
• Love Grove
• Adamsville Playground (Oil Mill Hill)
• Miami Beach (Oil Mill Hill)
• 101st Street Playground (south of Oakwood Cemetery entrance on land leased from the Troy Cemetery Association)
• Shaughnessy Square (between 2nd and 3rd avenues and 105th and 106th streets)
• Rensselaer County Sidepath (bicycle trail along Hudson River)
• Oaklands - the private wooded estate of the Gould family opened on occasion for picnics for children
• Macomber Field - (Eighth Avenue and 110th Street) (abt 1955-1973)
• Bolton's Stock Farm - east of the New Turnpike, used for clambakes and athletic events

Batestown - Present (Batestown was formerly a part of Lansingburgh)
• Ingalls Avenue Boat Launch and Park http://www.troyny.gov/cityprojects/ingallsavepark.aspx
• Ingalls Avenue Playground• Frear Park http://www.troyny.gov/Departments/Parks_Recreation/frearpark.aspx

Batestown - Past
• Oak Grove, or Winne's Grove (Oakwood Avenue south of Oakwood Cemetery)
• Rensselaer County Agricultural Society Fairgrounds (between 6th Avenue and the Uncle Sam Bikeway, north of Glen Avenue)The fairs are now held at the Schaghticoke Fair, in the Village of Schaghticoke.
• Laureate Grounds (north of Glen Avenue along the Hudson River) once owned by the Laureate Boat Club
• Victory Grounds (earlier name for more or less the same land as Laureate Grounds)
• Weir's Course (north of Glen Avenue east of River Street)

Stone Arabia area - Past
• Vanderheyden's Woods (east of Oakwood Avenue north of St. Peter's Cemetery)

Stone Arabia area - Present
• Brunswick Town Beach http://www.townofbrunswick.org/page.php?p=7

Peebles Island - Present (Lansingburgh had once tried to annex Peebles Island.)
• Peebles Island State Park https://parks.ny.gov/parks/111/maps.aspx

Adjacent parks - Past (parks outside of the boundaries of the former Town in or near neighboring places)
• Mount Olympus in Middleburgh (informally used in the past like a park, and at least once proposed as a formal park)
• Van Schaick Island Trotting Park
• Powers Grove on Green Island
• Mohawk Pines and Zoo at Powers Grove on Green Island
• Ford Park on Green Island