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
Read moreOur 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
Read moreRiverside 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
Read moreWe knew that Hurricane Sandy would rise over the banks of Riverside Park, but we had no idea how high it would go. In
Read moreSandy's here! Now seriously, stop running near the river and go inside. Thanks to Bethany Jenkins for the photo.
Read moreA 19-year-old woman who said she was raped last month in Riverside Park around 95th Street "wasn't credible," said Deputy Inspector Nancy Barry, the commander of the 24th Precinct, at a community meeting on Wednesday night. The NYPD's Special Victims Unit dropped the case, said Barry, after we asked her ...
Read moreOctober 24, 2012 Weather: Showers, High of 60 Degrees.
Read moreOctober 8, 2012 Weather: Mostly Cloudy, High of 55 Degrees.
Read moreOctober 3, 2012 Weather: A Few Showers, High of 74 Degrees
Read moreSeptember 10, 2012 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 73 Degrees.
Read moreA 19-year-old woman reported being raped in Riverside Park around 96th Street Monday morning around 2:30 a.m. She was transported to St. Luke's Hospital and was in
Read moreFor the next six Wednesdays, Riverside Park will be hosting its free annual Movies Under the Stars series at Pier 1, around 70th Street. This year's theme is "bicycles", and the series kicks off this Wednesday with the classic Cinema Paradiso, a film about love, watching movies, loss, growing up ...
Read moreJuly 6, 2012 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 89 Degrees.
Read moreA ramp around 72nd Street leading from the upper part of Riverside Park down to the Hudson River and the fields in the lower part of the park has been closed since May. And it won't be open for the July 4 festivities this week, meaning the huge crowds carting ...
Read moreA rep for Schwinn contacted us about a pretty unique event coming to Riverside Park next Saturday (June 23) -- a bike-in movie! No you won't be watching the entire movie from your bicycle seat, and who would want to. And you don't have to ride your bike to the ...
Read moreJune 11, 2012 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 76 Degrees.
Read moreReebok Sports Club, one of the most extravagant gyms in the Western hemisphere let alone the Upper West Side, is offering a free month's worth of once-a-week morning rooftop yoga starting this Tuesday. Every Tuesday morning at 7 a.m. a different instructor will lead you in saluting the sun on ...
Read moreThe 69th Street Transfer Bridge is a glorious post-industrial wreck. Built in 1911 by the New York Central Railroad, it transported freight cars to and from barges on the Hudson River that traveled to New Jersey. As rail transport disappeared, the bridge was abandoned around the late 1960's. About a ...
Read moreApril 30, 2012 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 61 Degrees.
Read moreApril 17, 2012 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 76 Degrees.
Read morePolice are looking for a man they say tried to rape a woman running in Riverside Park at about 6 p.m. Friday night. The 24-year-old woman saw the man approaching from behind with his genitals exposed as she ran on a dirt path between 122nd and 125th Streets. He grabbed ...
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