Tag: central park

December 11, 2012 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 47 Degrees.

December 3, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 59 Degrees.

November 19, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 48 Degrees.

Roll up your sleeves and get ready: Central and Riverside Parks need your help. On Saturday, both parks will be holding service days where volunteers can help clean up. More than 550 trees were damaged or destroyed in Central Park in Hurricane Sandy; the photo above shows a line of ...

This shot was taken by Upper West Sider Sachin Sarnobat today from a fancy-shmancy office just South of the park.

Police are looking for a boy (12-14 years old) who they say groped a 24-year-old woman who was running in the northwest section of the park on Friday night. A group of 5 teens stopped

Central Park is holding a concert on Saturday that will be unlike anything ever before experienced in the park.

November 9, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 51 Degrees.

Even on the mostly unscathed Upper West Side, we're not quite back to "normal." Parks will stay closed until Friday morning because of the Nor'easter that hit the city late on Wednesday. If you see a damaged tree, here's what to do: "During the storm emergency, the Parks Department is ...

Just when you thought it safe to go outside again, a new storm is barreling down on New York. And that means parks and playgrounds are closing again. Yes, this feels like a sick joke, but heed the warnings and stay out of the parks: Due to possibility of strong ...

The marathon may have been called off, but the folks who came here to run in it are clearly still in the mood to stretch their legs. The park was packed on Saturday and Sunday, with runners passing between the flags that had been set

Our parks are coming back, but they need your help. Central Park is expected to reopen tomorrow at 8 a.m., the conservancy says. Over 500 tress have been destroyed, and the cleanup work

November 2, 2012 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 52 Degrees.

Central Park has begun releasing photos from the park in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, and the damage is clearly substantial. Please remember: the park remains closed, and going inside will just make it more difficult on conservancy staff and police. The conservancy has hired contractors, helped by staff, to ...

Riverside and Central Park both sustained significant damage from Hurricane Sandy, and the parks still aren't safe for people to enter. That hasn't stopped some people from ducking under police tape to go in, however. Police have been stationed at

October 25, 2012 Weather: Mostly Cloudy, High of 62 Degrees.

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 ...