Make Music New York
Spend the day in the park listening to live musicians. On the Waterfront: American Music for Piano Duet highlights American four-hand piano music played by young…
May 21st — August 30, 2019
120th Street and Riverside Drive
Riverside Park Conservancy Celebrates a Year of Working side by Riverside
Riverside Park Upcoming Events
Art In The Park - Viewfinding Pride Celebration
Join us at Viewfinding, a large-scale public sculpture and poetry collaboration by Sarah E. Brook for a Pride celebration featuring poetry readings, music, visual art, and performances. Rain date…
Pieces of the Park
Vernonia noveboracensis,
“New York Ironweed”
Vernonia noveboracensis, or New York Ironweed, is a native herbaceous perennial that can reach a staggering 6 feet tall. It typically occurs in the wild…
Yucca filamentosa,
“Adam’s Needle”
"Adam’s Needle" is the common moniker for this native southern plant that has been naturalized in the northeast by gardeners. Yucca filamentosa scratches a lot of horticultural…
About Riverside Park
In the 1870s Frederick Law Olmsted was in the midst of designing a lovely green space above the Hudson River on the Upper West Side of Manhattan -- Riverside Park. Over 60 years later, Robert Moses covered the railroad tracks, built the Rotunda, extended the park to the waterfront, and developed its recreation areas. Expansion south of 72nd Street began in the 1990s. Today, the Riverside Park we enjoy is more than 330 acres of beautiful parkland from 59th to 155th Street.