Tag: parks department

A cluster of street lights are not turning on around the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument on the Upper West Side.

The public bathrooms in Riverside Park South near Pier i at West 70 Street will remain closed until spring 2025.

A six-month disruption for walkers, runners, and bikers who use the 1.25-mile Cherry Walk section of Hudson River Greenway.

City parks officials make a third attempt to design a new building for the 79th Street Boat Basin that will pass muster with regulators.

Goats have a seemingly insatiable appetite and can consume 25% of their own body weight in vegetation in just one day...

Eight bricks of exposed rat poison were found on Wednesday, February 16th, in three separate tree beds on the north side

If you are looking to dispose of your Christmas tree in an environmentally friendly way, or hoping to start off the new year with neighborhood volunteering

“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness,” the 19th century art critic John Ruskin once said.

It often seems that entropy prevails in New York City, and nowhere is its triumph more visible

A tug of war is taking place between the two powerful stewards of Central Park over one of the most popular places within it: the Wollman Rink

Once again, a lack of communication by the city has caused a kerfuffle on the Upper West Side. Recently, the Riverside Park Conservancy announced

Jill Weinberg couldn’t believe it when she and her dog Ellie arrived at the Bull Moose Dog Run, next to the Museum of Natural History at 81st Street

Without the fanfare it is due, the Bull Moose Dog Run, next to the Museum of Natural History at West 81st Street, opened its brand-new gates

The renovation of the Bull Moose Dog Run is underway and on schedule — really, according to the Parks Department.

The city is looking to open up some of Theodore Roosevelt Park's fenced off lawn areas, and has been studying the options for the past few months.

An artist who created a sculpture for a city-sponsored program in Riverside Park South says the parks department is now forcing him to censor his work.