Roberto Clemente State Park

Roberto Clemente State Park is a state park in the South Bronx, New York in the USA. The park is in the northern part of New York City, adjacent to the Harlem River, the Major Deegan Expressway and the Morris Heights station on Metro-North's Hudson Line. Roberto Clemente was a baseball player, who was killed in an air crash while trying to assist relief efforts after the 1972 Nicaragua earthquake. The park is urban, and offers a recreation building, picnic tables, a playground, recreation programs, and biking and is one of the parks in the State of New York which benefited from the partnership of nonprofit New York Restoration Project and New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.