Tag: parks

Central Park may get the headlines, and the Mandarin Duck, but Riverside Park is the neighborhood's hidden gem. It's the spot to fathom

Circuses are normally associated with smiling children, goofy clowns and death-defying acrobats. On the Upper West Side, they're

The city is cutting fees for tennis permits to $100 from $200, and allowing first-time permit-holders to sign up online. The reduction comes after

Septuagesimo Uno, a teeny-tiny park on 71st street between Amsterdam and West End Avenue, is being reconstructed to add new

The city raised fees on tennis permits and rec center memberships in 2011, and that has caused a dramatic decline in the number of memberships and tennis permits that New Yorkers have been purchasing, a report from the city's Independent Budget Office said. The report, first written about by A ...

We reported last week that free kayaking on the Hudson was back. Lo and behold: we were wrong! Although kayaking was still listed on the Riverside Park Conservancy's calendar as of this morning, it's not actually happening, because the dock where it happens has destroyed in Hurricane Sandy. Sorry for ...

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 ...

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 Central Park Conservancy has been moving trash cans in the park, trying to get them out of landscaped areas where people congregate and push the cans to the periphery. The decision is meant to make the park more attractive, make trash-pickup more

By Maria Gorshin Is Riverside Park Manhattan’s best park, or is it forever second to New York’s fabled Central Park? The answer depends on whom you ask. But what is certain is that there always seems to be something more to discover about Riverside. It seems everyone has a certain ...

The city and the Central Park Conservancy are making few friends with their crackdown on musicians in Central Park who dare to make music in one of the park's "quiet zones". The city says it's trying to balance "competing interests" in the park, basically cordoning off spaces where people don't ...