Take pause and delight in some of this city's most treasured settings:
• Redefine "garden" and enjoy the urban landscape at Long Island City's Socrates Sculpture Park.
• Venture beyond the Verrazano to the Chinese Scholar's Garden of the Staten Island Botanical Gardens.
• Sit beneath the weeping birch trees and smile at the turtles that call the Liz Christy Community Garden home.
• Enjoy history, music and a pint in the leafy garden of the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum.