Tag: central park

October 24, 2012 Weather: Showers, High of 60 Degrees.

Hedge fund manager and Queens native John Paulson wrote the biggest check ever made to a public park today: $100 million to the Central Park Conservancy. Part of the donation will go to support the park's endowment, and part will be used to restore more areas of the park. Expect ...

October 15, 2012 Weather: Rain, High of 70 Degrees.

We've written quite a bit about the conflicts between the various kinds of people who use Central Park's loop road -- bicyclists, drivers, runners and ho-hum pedestrians all tend to come into conflict with each other at one time or another. Usually, the conflicts consist of angry facial expressions and ...

September 25, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 76 Degrees.

September 14, 2012 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 79 Degrees.

David Albert Mitchell was arrested on Thursday after being picked out of a lineup by a 73-year-old woman who said he raped her in Central Park on Wednesday morning. He was charged with rape, assault, predatory sex act, criminal sex act, robbery and criminal possession of stolen property. The New ...

A 73-year-old woman out birdwatching around noon on Wednesday was hit on the head, robbed and raped in the Strawberry Fields section of Central Park, according to police.  The attacker reportedly approached her in the park around 74th Street just off of Central Park West. Another birdwatcher found the woman ...

September 12, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 80 Degrees.

Since we reported a couple of weeks ago that police in Central Park were cracking down on bicyclists who break the law when riding in Central Park, we've heard about some action in the park. Police have been out with speed guns, and have been

We just got ahold of a letter from the Central Park Conservancy to Councilwoman Gale Brewer addressing concerns from Upper West Side residents that raccoons have begun to get a little saucy at local playgrounds, jumping up on picnic tables and snatching kids' food. As one mother noted: "The raccoons ...

Five years ago, I joined a softball team called the Consenting Adults. They were in their 23rd year of existence, with colorful characters who were writers, psychologists, teachers, and gifted softball players. They gave me

For the tenth straight year, the Central Park Conservancy will show films this week on the sloping lawn just North of Sheep Meadow and South of the 72nd Street crossing road in the middle of the park. The theme of this year's film festival is "cult classics" and it will ...

Blind lawyer Richard Bernstein was hit by a bicyclist last week, fracturing his pelvis and hip, bloodying his face, and causing him to have to drop out of the New York City marathon. He had been walking in the park at East 90th Street wearing a bright yellow shirt and ...

Tavern on the Green took its first step to becoming an actual restaurant once again, as the city chose a Philadelphia company to run the historic spot, it announced today. The Emerald Green Group and chef Katy Sparks are expected to open the restaurant in the fall of 2013. Sparks ...

A benefit concert to fight global poverty is scheduled for September 29 on the Great Lawn in Central Park. The free concert will feature Neil Young and Crazy Horse, the Foo Fighters, the Black Keys and K'naan. But to get a ticket you have to sign up at  a new ...

A tipster tells us that the NYPD's bomb squad taped off an area in Central Park just West of the Great Lawn this afternoon and has been telling people to avoid the immediate area. An officer  yelled "Bomb Squad" at him and told him to walk away from the Bridle ...

The line for the first showing (technically a preview) of Into the Woods stretched almost to the Central Park Reservoir on Tuesday. Some of the hundreds of people who waited outside on a hot day said it was the longest they'd ever seen (yes, that's an air mattress in the ...

July 16, 2012 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 92 Degrees.

July 10, 2012 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 85 Degrees.