Current List of Parks in NYC with Adaptive Swings

District #1  (Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side along W Houston St, E 4th St, and E 14th St)

Has Adaptive Swing

  • Luther Gulick Park (Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Seward Park Playground (Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Sol Lain Playground  (Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

No Adaptive Swing

  • ABC Playground

  • Alfred E.  Smith Playground

  • Battery Park City

  • Captain Jacob Joseph Playground

  • Cherry Clinton Playground

  • Coleman Playground

  • Columbus Park Playground

  • Corlears Hook Park Playground

  • DeSalvio Playground

  • Henry M. Jackson Playground

  • Hester St Playground

  • Houston St Playground

  • Imagination Playground

  • Lillian D Wald Playground

  • Little Flower Playground

  • Mercer Playground

  • Nathan Straus Playground

  • Nelson Rockefeller Park Playground

  • Nelson Rockefeller Park Playground North

  • Nelson Rockefeller Park Playground South

  • Pearl St Playground

  • Playground of the Americas

  • Playground One

  • Rivington St Playground

  • Sidney Hillman Playground

  • Sophie Irene Loeb

  • Tanahey Playground

  • Vesuvio Playground

  • Washington Market Park

District #2 (East Side from the Lower East Side, up through the East Village, Gramercy, Kips Bay, and into Midtown East) 

Has Adaptive Swing 

  • Baruch Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Bellevue South Park Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Bleecker Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

  • Dry Dock Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Evelyn’s Playground (Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

  • Joseph C. Sauer Park Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Tompkins Square Park Playground East 9 St & Ave A (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5) 

  • McKinley Playground (Equipped with multi-age adaptive swings)

  • Washington Square Park Playground (Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

No Adaptive Swing 

  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens Playground

  • Fiorello La Guardia Park

  • First Park

  • Hamilton Fish Park

  • Lower East Side Playground

  • Minetta Playground

  • Play Hills Playground

  • Tompkins Square Park Playground (E 7 St - 8 St & Ave B)

  • Toddler Playground

  • Wald Playground

District #3 (Lower West Side including the West Village, Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen, and parts of the Flatiron District) 

Has Adaptive Swing 

  • Chelsea Park Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

  • Corporal John A. Seravalli Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • DeWitt Clinton Park Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Hell's Kitchen Park Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Mathews Palmer Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • McCaffrey Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

  • Police Office Moira Ann Smith Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

 No Adaptive Swing 

  • Clement Clarke Moore Park Playground

  • Downing Street Playground

  • Dr. Gertrude B. Kelly Playground

  • Gutenberg Playground

  • James J. Walker Park

  • Ramon Aponte Park Playground

  • Penn South Playground  

* There will be a Sway Fun at Penn South, which is an inclusive swinging glider. There will be no other swings at that park. Sway Fun details: Sway Fun Glider

District #4 (Central Park South, parts of the Upper East Side, Midtown East, Stuyvesant Town, and Peter Cooper Village) 

Has Adaptive Swing 

  • St. Vartan Park Playground  (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Asser Levy Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

No Adaptive Swing 

  • MacArthur Park Playground

  • Mary O'Connor Playground

  • Murphy Brothers Playground

  • Robert Moses Playground (No swing frames)

  • Tudor Grove Playground (No swing frames)

  • Vincent F. Albano Jr. Playground

District #5 (Upper East Side, Yorkville, Roosevelt Island, Lenox Hill, and the north-eastern edge of Midtown East) 

Has Adaptive Swing 

  • Catbird Playground  (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • John Jay Park Playground  

No Adaptive Swing 

  • DeKovats Playground

  • Marx Brothers Playground

  • Ruppert Park Playground – Scheduled for capital renovation September 2026

  • Samuel Seabury Playground

  • St. Catherine's Park Playground – Scheduled for capital renovation by the end of the year

  • Stanley Isaacs Playground

  • Twenty-Four Sycamores Park Playground – Scheduled for capital renovation within 2026–2027

District #6 (Upper West Side, Lincoln Square, Clinton/Hell's Kitchen border, and the western half of Central Park) 

Has Adaptive Swing 

  • Ancient Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

  • Bernard Family Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

  • Billy Johnson Playground  (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Classic Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Dinosaur Playground (Equipped with multi-age adaptive swings)

  • East 72nd Street Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

  • East 110th Street Playground  (Features Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

  • Gertrude Ederle Recreation Center (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • James Michael Levin Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

  • Little Engine Playground (Equipped with multi-age adaptive swings)

  • Neufeld Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

  • River Run Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

  • Robert Bendheim Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Tarr Family Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

  • Tarr-Coyne Tots Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

  • Tarr-Coyne Wild West Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

  • Tecumseh Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

No Adaptive Swing 

  • Abraham and Joseph Spector Playground

  • Adventure Playground in Central Park

  • Diana Ross Playground

  • Margaret L. Kempner Playground

  • Matthew P. Sapolin Playground

  • Playground Eighty Nine LXXXIX

  • Pinetum Playground

  • Rudin Family Playground

  • Ruth and Arthur Smadbeck-Heckscher East Playground

  • Safari Playground

  • Samuel N. Bennerson 2nd Playground

  • Sol Bloom Playground

  • St. Gregory's Playground

  • Toll Family Playground

District #7 (Manhattan Valley, Morningside Heights, West Harlem, Hamilton Heights, and portions of Washington Heights) 

Has Adaptive Swing 

  • Bloomingdale Playground (Equipped with multi-age adaptive swings)

  • Hippo Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

  • Sakura Park Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Ten Mile River Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • West 110th Street Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

No Adaptive Swing 

  • 105th Street Tot Lot

  • 110th Street Tot Lot

  • 112th Street Tot Lot

  • 117th Street Playground

  • Anibal Aviles Playground

  • Annunciation Playground

  • Arlington “Ollie” Edinboro Playground

  • Booker T. Washington Playground

  • Carmansville Playground

  • Claremont (Dolphin) Playground

  • Frederick Douglass Playground

  • Happy Warrier Playground

  • Jacob H. Schiff Playground

  • Morningside Park Playgrounds

  • Palisades Playground

  • Playground 123

  • Playground One Twenty Five CXXV

  • Riverbank Playground

  • Sheltering Arms Playground

District #8 (East Harlem/El Barrio, Randall's Island, Ward's Island)

Has Adaptive Swing

  • James Weldon Johnson Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Playground 103 CIII  (Equipped with multi-age adaptive swings)

  • P.S. 155 Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

  • Thomas Jefferson Park Playground  (Equipped with multi-age adaptive swings)

  • White Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

No Adaptive Swing

  • Alice Kornegay Triangle

  • Blake Hobbs Playground

  • Cherry Tree Park

  • Crack Is Wack Playground

  • East River Playground (Unable to place an adaptive swing without renovation and removing all swings in each bed area.

  • Mae Grant Playground

  • Othmar Ammann Playground

  • Peter Minuit Playground

  • Poor Richard's Playground

  • Scylla Playground

  • Sunshine Playground

  • Wagner Playground

District #9 (Central Harlem, Morningside Heights border, Manhattanville, and the northern edge of Central Park) 

Has Adaptive Swing 

  • Abraham Lincoln Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Langston Hughes Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Percy E. Sutton Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Playground 152 CLII (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Holcombe Rucker Park (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

No Adaptive Swing 

  • Alexander Hamilton Playground

  • Abyssinian Tot Lot

  • Bill Bojangles Robinson Playground

  • Brigadier General Charles Young Playground 

  • Courtney Callender Playground

  • Dr. Ronald E. McNair Playground

  • Fred Samuel Playground

  • Frederick Johnson Playground

  • Harlem River Park

  • Howard Bennett Playground

  • Marcus Garvey Park Playgrounds

  • Moore Playground

  • Mt. Morris East Playground

  • Playground 149 CIL

  • Renaissance Playground

  • Robert L. Clinkscales Playground and Community Garden

  • St. Nicholas Playgrounds South

  • William McCray Playground

District #10 (Washington Heights, Inwood, and Marble Hill) 

Has Adaptive Swing 

  • Adventure Playground (Highbridge Park) (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Anne Loftus Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Audubon Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Discovery Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Jacob Javits Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

  • Monsignor Kett Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Sunken Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Wallenberg Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Under Age 5)

  • Wright Brothers Playground (Features Accessible Swings for Ages 5–12)

No Adaptive Swing

  • Bennett Park

  • Coogan's Bluff Playground

  • CPF Playground

  • Emerson Playground

  • Fort George Playground

  • J. Hood Wright Park Playground

  • Inwood Hill Park Playground

  • Lily Brown Playground

  • Payson Playground

  • Quisqueya Playground

For those seeking more detailed accessibility information, note that it is not prominently featured on the Parks Dept Website. There is currently no complete list of which NYC parks have adapted swings. If you click on this playgrounds page to a specific site and select more information (i.e., Chelsea Park), there is a breakdown of some of the accessibility elements.

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