Dress your pups in their most creative costume and parade through the Park! The Parade meets at Dinosaur Playground and marches north to Ellington in the Park. To compete in […]
Celebrate the spooky season and help support the Riverside Park Pickleball Courts at this fun Halloween-themed competition.
This year-long outdoor public art exhibition at Riverside Park features new site-specific sculptures by League artists.
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, […]
