Swindlers Cove Park is one of Manhattan’s least-known yet most beautiful parks.

Opened in 2003, the Park occupies a five-acre patch of land along the Harlem River once a communal dumping ground. Before construction on the Park could begin, a contract was to remove tons of garbage, rusted-out cars,
sunken boats, and construction debris from the waterfront.

Today, the Park houses a series of ponds and waterfalls, a half-acre wet-land with meandering footpaths leading to birdhouses, a communal garden, and one of Manhattan’s only beaches.
The park structures