Conservancy Announces Summer-Long Art Exhibit
As a gift to our neighbors as we emerge from this horrible pandemic, and in celebration of Riverside Park Conservancy's 35th Anniversary, we will host a…
Riverside Park Conservancy Celebrates a Year of Working side by Riverside
Riverside Park News
Conservancy Testimony - NYC Council Hearing 3.12.21
On March 12, 2021 the Conservancy submitted testimony as part of the New Yorkers For Parks Play Fair Coalition. We ask that the City reverses last year’s painful budget cuts…
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 400 acres of beautiful parkland from 59th to 181st Street.