There are still farms in Manhattan and other parts of NYC. From the few I know off-hand:

- The Farm at the Javits Center (Hudson Yards) is a working rooftop farm, greenhouse, and has an orchard.

- On Randall’s Island there is a farm with raised beds, greenhouses, rice paddies, and also an orchard.

- Battery Urban Farm (Lower Manhattan) - not sure of this counts but its an operating educational farm that grows produce.

There are others.

Why do you think "sheep meadow" in Central Park is called that?

Do you think Manhattan has always been skyscrapers?

you misinterpreted me

All I can do is the best interpretation of what you wrote.

I fear you doom yourself to misinterpretation by failing to properly or correctly describe your thought.

Why comment?

I don’t understand. Do you think the Dutch came to Manhattan in the 1620s and found it fully built out with streets and skyscrapers?

Wow, people are completely misinterpreting my comment.

I'm lamenting the loss of farms in manhattan.

Kinda hard to farm on land when it’s worth $1000-3000 a square foot like land is in Manhattan. I’m not even sure a vertically integrated coca plantation/cocaine refinery would be profitable with those property taxes and your gross margins would be 90%.

At least there’s Central Park, that’s several hundreds of billions of dollars of real estate set aside for public use.

Maybe they were just wistful? Hard to know with such a short comment.

"The Bronx" was "The Bronks", a farm owned by a Dutch family and a popular picnic destination before it was subdivided and built over.