Community Volunteer Day
Join us at our next open volunteer day at Riverside Park! You’ll work with our zone gardeners in various locations throughout the park caring for spring plantings,…
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
Underwater Neighbors of Riverside Park
Join the educators from Hudson River Sloop Clearwater to catch, observe, and identify fish and invertebrates. Participants will observe the river and discuss its history and how…
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.