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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 ...

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

Riverside 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

We knew that Hurricane Sandy would rise over the banks of Riverside Park, but we had no idea how high it would go. In

Sandy's here! Now seriously, stop running near the river and go inside. Thanks to Bethany Jenkins for the photo.

A 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 ...

October 24, 2012 Weather: Showers, High of 60 Degrees.

October 8, 2012 Weather: Mostly Cloudy, High of 55 Degrees.

October 3, 2012 Weather: A Few Showers, High of 74 Degrees

September 10, 2012 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 73 Degrees.

A 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

For 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 ...

July 6, 2012 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 89 Degrees.

A 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 ...

A 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 ...

June 11, 2012 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 76 Degrees.

Reebok 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 ...

The 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 ...

April 30, 2012 Weather: Mostly Sunny, High of 61 Degrees.