The annual Hippo Playground Halloween Parade invites costumed kids to gather at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument at 89th Street and Riverside Drive and parade to Hippo Playground. Put on your favorite costume and join the fun, featuring music from Ramblin' Dan's Freewheelin' Band! This event is fully funded by proceeds from the Hippo Spring […]
Join us for a fun day of giving back to our community by helping rake leaves in the beautiful Riverside Park. This event is a great way to enjoy the outdoors, meet new people, and make a difference. No experience necessary, just bring your energy and enthusiasm! You may know of the "Leave the leaves" […]
Akela Reason, art historian and professor of history at the University of Georgia, will discuss the complex history of the New York Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Riverside Park. Her talk derives from her recent book, Politics and Memory: Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York (Yale University Press). The book illuminates the historical context […]
Celebrate the season with a holiday tree lighting, live music, decoration making, and hot chocolate (while supplies last).
Bring your Christmas tree to Riverside Park to be recycled into mulch that will nourish plantings in the Park all year long! These wood chips are used to nurture trees and plants on street tree pits, paths, and gardens parkwide. But here’s the best part – you can take a bag of Christmas tree mulch […]
Summer on the Hudson presents a staged reading of Houses, Secrets and Time, a new play by Laura MacLean. Margaret has scraped together everything possible to buy a historical New England home from an elderly neighbor. When her sister finds a keepsake box hidden away, it's contents send the sisters on an impulsive trip to Japan […]
Join the Hudson Classical Theater Company for an afternoon of original ten minute plays! W.A.G.G. highlights the work of local contemporary playwrights, directed and performed by Hudson Classical company members. Stay after the show for light refreshments and conversation with the playwrights. Pay what you can! Audience donations help pay for artists stipends and production costs. […]
Join the Hudson Classical Theater Company for an afternoon of original ten minute plays! W.A.G.G. highlights the work of local contemporary playwrights, directed and performed by Hudson Classical company members. Stay after the show for light refreshments and conversation with the playwrights. Pay what you can! Audience donations help pay for artists stipends and production costs. […]
We are so proud of Riverside Park’s own community garden, located at 138th Street and 12th Avenue. Jenny’s Garden is a special part of Riverside Park named after Jenny Benitez, a remarkable individual and a giant in the community. In 2018 The New York Times wrote about her incredible impact in Riverside Park as one of the […]
This event has been POSTPONED to SUNDAY, 4/26 at 12pm, due to weather. Join Riverside Park Conservancy, artist Kenneth Doherty, and Artichoke Dance Company for an afternoon of dance performance and discussion, celebrating Earth Week. Dance performances held at 12pm and 2pm, with artist talk and presentation of the Conservancy's sustainability initiatives in between. Rain […]
Riverside Park Conservancy and our generous supporters present the Spring 2026 edition of Charlotte Mayerson’s Overlook Concert series.
Riverside Playground Partners and Riverside Park Conservancy invite you to celebrate the spring season with live music, games, activities, arts & crafts, giant bubbles, a petting zoo, and the chance to meet our Park fleet and dress up as Riverside Park junior staff members! Proceeds help fund the continued maintenance of the 15 playgrounds across Riverside […]
