Spring Event: Celebrates 6 Miles of Magnificence
Featured News, News
On June 5, the Riverside Park Conservancy held its annual spring event, 6 Milles of Magnificence, raising nearly $670,000. We honored of one of our…
Riverside Park News
RPC Appoints Dan Garodnick as CEO & President
Featured News, News
RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY APPOINTS DAN GARODNICK AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND PRESIDENT Longtime public servant will lead Conservancy effort to expand its work caring for…
Riverside Park Upcoming Events
Sep 29 - National Public Lands Day
Featured Event, Open Volunteer Event, Other Park Activity, Volunteer
National Public Lands Day (NPLD) is the nation’s largest, single-day volunteer effort for public lands, and will take place on Saturday, September 29. NPLD began in…
Sep 29 - Little Red Lighthouse Festival
Family/Kids Event, Featured Event, Meeting/Presentation/Lecture, Other Park Activity
Celebrate Manhattan's only remaining lighthouse with readings of the eponymous children's bok, fishing clinics, live…
Pieces of the Park
Yucca filamentosa,
“Adam’s Needle”
Piece of the Park
"Adam’s Needle" is the common moniker for this native southern plant that has been naturalized…
Apocynum cannabinum,
“Hemp Dogbane”
Piece of the Park
Hemp Dogbane is a large perennial with a milky sap that exudes from the plant…
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.
