Tag: central park

Cicadas, a magical group of bugs, are beginning to emerge from the ground for the first time in 17 years, and they've already been spotted on the Upper West Side. It's not clear why the bugs wait 17 years to come out of the ground, but it is clear that ...

Lock up the women and children! Take the pooch out for one final walk! Run to Trader Joe's and buy all of the frozen pad thai! Because the demonic northern snakehead has allegedly been spotted in Central Park, and it's not happpppyyyyy.

Riverside Park has been taking away garbage cans and asking people to carry their trash out of the park with them, even if that means carrying around their steaming dog poop bags until they leave the park. The movement and removal of the cans has upset people who use the ...

A police officer's scooter burst into flames on Tuesday at around 5 p.m. on the West 86th street transverse road in Central Park, forcing the officer to flee the vehicle, according to Geoffrey Croft of watchdog group NYC Park Advocates. Croft says the officer was not injured although his clothes ...

Central Park will be hopping this summer, as Summerstage will bring dozens of concerts, movies and comedy events -- most of them free -- to the main stage on 69th street near 5th avenue and other venues. The program was just released and there's something for everyone: Joan Baez and ...

Every week, we read the stories about the Upper West Side that were printed in other media outlets so you don't have to.

Spring has certainly sprung in New York and Central park Conservancy is celebrating on Wednesday night:

Spring did not feel very welcoming today, with temperatures in the 40's. But that didn't stop talk show co-host and former New York Giants star Michael Strahan from mowing Sheep Meadow this morning to help the Central Park Conservancy to get ready to reopen the park's lawns on Saturday. West ...

March kind of dragged this year, didn't it? The city seemed even dirtier than usual, and the rain mostly just pushed the garbage around without sending it away. But Spring is starting to poke its way through now. Local photographer Douglas Kiddie sent us the photos below of the spring ...

Central Park closed down multiple playgrounds late Saturday morning during the St. Patrick's Day parade, because on previous St. Patrick's Days people have left the playgrounds strewn with broken glass, a parks employee told us. He was in the process of blocking the entrance to the Hecksher playground at the ...

Some people just love to run, and a little rain, snow or sleet isn't going to stop them. A field of about 1,500 runners will race around Central Park five times this Sunday starting at 8 a.m. to complete a marathon, in a race put on by the company NYC ...

Sledders in Riverside Park. Photo by Ernie Fritz. The storm of the century will eventually give way to the sledding opportunity of the century, and you'd better be ready! Luckily, Upper West Siders live near some excellent sledding hills, as well as some good spots for coffee and hot chocolate ...

Two people fell through the ice in Central Park around 59th Street and 6th Avenue Tuesday afternoon, and two rescue workers may have been injured getting them out.

Jack Krugman, a 68-year-old man from the Upper East Side, died on Monday after his motorcycle crashed into the guardrail on the East side of the Central Park loop road around

Tavern on the Green is getting a big makeover as it prepares to open later this year. But figuring out how to make the historic upscale restaurant into a more mid-priced neighborhood spot is already proving complicated. The Central Park Conservancy and

There may not be snow on the ground, in most of the city, but a section of Central Park is covered in the stuff today as the park prepares for Winter Jam. Snow machines have been pumping out fake snow in the Bandshell area around 72nd street. On Saturday from ...

January 16, 2013 Weather: Rain, High of 38 Degrees.

January 14, 2013 Weather: Mostly Cloudy, High of 55 Degrees.

January 7, 2013 Weather: Sunny, High of 43 Degrees.

A 35-year-old woman told police she was sexually assaulted this morning in the Great Hill area of Central Park. The woman said she had first encountered the man while walking South at