Madison Square Park

April 5, 2002

A MOUSE AND A MARTYR MEET IN MANHATTAN

It was out with the old and in with the new (and colorful) at St. Vartan Park in Manhattan. On...

February 19, 2002

MANHATTAN IN 2001

Covering the island in green and spreading daffodils throughout are all in a year’s work for...

November 19, 2001

WAR MEMORIALS, OLD AND RENEWED

The Eternal Light monument in Madison Square Park was a focal point for remembrance on Veteran’s...

November 9, 2001

LEFFERTS PLAYGROUND MADE NOUVEAU

Parks, the Locust Grove Civic Association, and Borough President Claire (Queens Bee) Shulman...

June 14, 2001

THROUGH PUBLIC-PRIVATE COLLABORATION MADISON SQUARE PARK IS RESTORED

Madison Square Park is home to more than 200 trees, some of them even older than the park....

April 30, 2001

ANOTHER NEW YORK POLITICIAN RECEIVES SPECIAL TREATMENT: ROSCOE CONKLING STATUE IS CONSERVED

On April 18, as part of the renovation of Madison Square Park, work commenced on the...

October 2, 2000

GOING, GOING, GONE: NEW YORK’S COW PARADE AUCTIONED OFF FOR CHARITY

CowParade 2000-the first public art project in New York to span all five boroughs-has come...

August 15, 2000

CLEAN CANAL IN SPRINGFIELD PARK

In September 1998, the Parks Council and Columbia University released a joint study that...