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Looking for a good way to celebrate Spring and help out in the neighborhood? The Riverside Park Conservancy is looking for volunteers to help fill sandboxes at the playgrounds in

Riverside and Central Parks have some fun events on tap the next two weeks.

The first good snowstorm of the year is upon us, and it's time to get out those sleds! Luckily, Upper West Siders live near some excellent sledding

If you've got a strong back, a strong mind or even strong breath you can help your community. We've heard about several

Check out some news relevant to the Upper West Side that we've seen in other news outlets over the past week.

Several victims remained in the hospital after the attacks this morning in Riverside Park, in which police say a deranged homeless man identified as Julius Graham randomly stabbed five people with scissors. Graham first stabbed a female runner around 65th street in the park, then he stabbed a man walking ...

A 30-year-old man was arrested for sexually abusing a 2-year-old girl in a bathroom stall in Riverside Park on Tuesday afternoon around 5:14 p.m., an NYPD spokesman told us.

There have been some disturbing reports in the past few days about crimes in Central and Riverside Parks. Bicyclists have been attacked twice in Riverside Park in the past couple of weeks by thugs wielding ropes, bats and brass knuckles. The attacks happened along the Hudson above 160th street, according ...

A dock in the Hudson River at 72nd street that was damaged during Hurricane Sandy has been repaired, and the city and Downtown Boathouse are reopening free kayaking to the pubic starting this Sunday. The Riverside Park Conservancy hasn't listed kayaking on its website yet, but this is what the ...

The skateboarding park in Riverside Park on 108th street recently got a big makeover and is getting a new name to honor Upper West Side skating legend Andy Kessler. City skateboarding enthusiasts have been

Riverside Park will once again host Movies Under the Stars, its outdoor movie series on Pier 1 at 70th street. The series kicks off on Wednesday night starting around 8:30 p.m. with the showing of Gold Diggers of 1933. Here's a description: "Millionaire turned composer Dick Powell rescues unemployed Broadway ...

Editor's Note: Tech company Pensa recently installed solar-powered cell-phone-charging stations in Riverside Park and at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park (69th street off of 5th Avenue). Jillian Gray checked out the Riverside Park station, which is near Pier 1 cafe around 70th street inside the park, and sent in the ...

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 is looking for high schoolers for its Teen Corps this summer:

Riverside Park is hopping this summer, with various ways to laugh and get wet.

Free yoga and pilates classes in Riverside Park are back starting this week. Pilates is on Tuesdays at 6:30 and yoga is on Wednesdays at 6:30. Both occur at The Plaza at 66th Street (in Riverside Park South). PILATES 6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. This total body workout is a great way ...

Dozens of police officers came out to Riverside Park this morning around 119th street after finding a bloody knife and several pools of blood by the tennis courts. Helicopters were flying over the neighborhood around 8 a.m., and police streamed into the park. NYC Parks Advocates, a blog run by ...

See, New Jersey can look beautiful in the right light. Photo from Riverside Park around 70th street on Wednesday night courtesy of

A driver on his way to New Jersey on Wednesday at about 10 a.m. turned West around 88th Street. Unfortunately for him, there is no road there, a fact that neither the GPS nor his own eyes apparently recognized. The front-wheel drive car got stuck on the stairs, spinning its ...

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 ...