Tag: playgrounds

The hippos are here to stay. After a comprehensive effort, including almost a year of construction, Central Park’s Safari Playground

New trash cans just arrived in Riverside Park, and they could throw a wrench in the dinner plans of neighborhood rats. The mayor's office and Councilmember Helen Rosenthal funded

Mayor Bill de Blasio held a press conference in the Hippo playground in Riverside Park at West 91st street on Thursday to announce

Rats have gotten very frisky this summer, making a home for themselves in and around the playgrounds on the Upper West Side.

This hawk at 90th Street and Central Park West on Tuesday must have heard that the Upper West Side has a rat problem, and so

The Parks Department cut the ribbon on a new playground and turf field on 60th Street between West End and Amsterdam Avenue.

St. Gregory's Playground located on 90th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Columbus will soon get a major redesign under a plan approved

The Mariners' Playground in Central Park at 84th street has closed until the fall as it undergoes reconstruction as part of Central Park's plans to

At a meeting on Thursday night, a Community Board 7 committee will revisit its controversial decision to recommend that Crafts on Columbus be shut down, and plans will be revealed to restructure three playgrounds.

The Tots Playground, a small playground in Central Park around 67th street, has been rebuilt in a completely new circular format. The new playground is the first to be completed in a $40 million restoration project undertaken by the Central Park Conservancy. Eventually, all 21 playgrounds in the park will ...

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 ...

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 ...

Landmark West, the Upper West Side historic preservation group, started a very cool little project a couple of weeks ago, asking readers to send in their photos of people playing in Central Park through the ages. So far they've gotten a nice smattering of snapshots, including this one above shot in ...