Volunteer Orientation
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If you want to volunteer, you're in the right place!
Work together with our gardeners to maintain select areas of South Park. We will be primarily doing weeding and general horticultural maintenance. Please meet at the park entrance at 68th Street & Riverside Blvd. For existing volunteers: please sign up through the Grassroots Volunteer Portal. For new volunteers: please email [email protected] for information about how to get involved. […]
Shape Up NYC, a NYC Parks program in partnership with NYC Service, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation) offers free fitness classes to help New Yorkers get and stay fit. Summer on the Hudson events are free and open to the public. Seating is limited, unreserved, and available on a first-come, […]
Work with our gardener Jonas to maintain Buckeye Garden, a beautiful space along the Riverside Drive wall filled with buckeyes and ferns. In order to get to the garden, please enter the park at the 91st Street entrance and follow the path down the slope to the right. You'll get to a fork in the […]
Sakura Park is a beautiful area full of cherry trees and serene views. We're excited to partner you with our longtime gardener, Winston Johnson, to steward and show love to this area of Morningside Heights. Please sign up on our Eventbrite here!
We invite you to join us in reconnecting with nature by participating in a guided Forest Bathing experience. Allow yourself to connect with the park in a way you never have before. The program includes a short, no more than a half-mile walk at a slow pace. Wear comfortable clothing and bring water, snacks, and […]
Let's come together for International Coastal Clean Up Day at Riverside Park to help keep our shorelines clean and beautiful!
Shape Up NYC, a NYC Parks program in partnership with NYC Service, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation) offers free fitness classes to help New Yorkers get and stay fit. Summer on the Hudson events are free and open to the public. Seating is limited, unreserved, and available on a first-come, […]
Artist and illustrator Ishita Jain hosts a drawing event in Riverside Park.
Over the past four summers, the goats have successfully cleared the slopes at 120th Street, allowing the human staff to install native understory and large trees, protecting the mature tree canopy. This summer, the hard-working goats had been given a new job site at West 143rd Street, where they’re munching on poison ivy and other […]
Don headphones and party on the pier at this Quiet Clubbing event featuring three live DJs spinning tunes of different genres. Summer on the Hudson events are free and open to the public. Seating is limited, unreserved, and available on a first-come, first-served basis. If there is heavy rain at the time of the event, […]
Don headphones and party on the pier at this Quiet Clubbing event featuring three live DJs spinning tunes of different genres. Summer on the Hudson events are free and open to the public. Seating is limited, unreserved, and available on a first-come, first-served basis. If there is heavy rain at the time of the event, […]