Hudson Park and Boulevard

Hudson Park and Boulevard is a linear park and greenway running through Hudson Yards on Manhattan's far West Side, set in the median of Hudson Boulevard between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues and stretching from West 33rd Street toward West 39th Street. Built as part of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project, the roughly four-acre park is officially named Bella Abzug Park, renamed in 2019 by NYC Parks to honor the pioneering New York congresswoman and feminist leader.

The park runs down the center of Hudson Boulevard, which splits into two parallel one-way roadways with the landscaped park between them. Created on land assembled and reshaped over the Amtrak rail cut as the surrounding district was rezoned and developed, it is one of the newest pieces of parkland in Manhattan, built in phases beginning in the early 2010s rather than inherited from the 19th century.

The completed southern section offers lawns, planting beds, a fountain, a cafe, wooden benches, and a playground, providing rare green space for the dense new residential and office towers of Hudson Yards. The fountains are engineered to detect high winds and shut off automatically, one of several contemporary touches in the park's design.

The surrounding Hudson Yards and Hell's Kitchen blocks have been transformed in recent years into one of the city's densest concentrations of new high-rise development, anchored by the Hudson Yards complex over the West Side rail yards. The park's green corridor was conceived as essential public open space to balance that intense vertical growth, and future phases call for extending it north and linking it toward 42nd Street.

Hudson Park and Boulevard exemplifies the linear park typology that has become increasingly important in Manhattan's park system: green spaces that follow streets or infrastructure corridors, providing tree canopy, recreation, and visual relief in neighborhoods where large contiguous parks are not feasible.