Events

Each year Street Games brings back the classic street games from the ’60s and ’70s and reintroduces them to a new...

On April 9, 2010, NYC Parks cut the ribbon on the new Macombs Dam Park and Joe Yancey Track and Field, at 161st Street and...

 

On February 6, 2010 the Parks Department and the Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) presented Winter Jam NYC, an...

This past fall, over 25 students from the Marble Hill High School for International Studies participated in an art project...

On November 17, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, together with Central Park Conservancy...

 

One of the biggest races in the world, the New York City Marathon loops through several City parks, ending in Central Park.

In October, 2009, New Yorkers participated in NYC Parks' annual Citywide Bocce Tournament. Teams of four competed to represent...

On Saturday, September 26, New Yorkers were given the chance to outwit one another during the 9th annual Chess-in-the-Parks...

 

The Oprah Winfrey Show broadcasted live from Central Park SummerStage's Rumsey Playfield on a sunny summer afternoon. The lucky...

The 2009 Fall Harvest Fair, presented by Parks, GreenThumb, Just Food, and the New York Botanical Garden, featured a harvest...

For ten days in early September 2009, twelve traditional Dutch canal houses, a windmill, and a stage transformed Bowling Green...

 

Whitney Houston performed four songs for fans at Central Park's Rumsey Playfield.

On August 31, 2009, NYC Parks cut the ribbon on $1.7 million in improvements to Campanaro Playground. Thanks to the funding,...

On Saturday, August 29, thousands of New Yorkers took to the great outdoors at the 5th Annual Adventures NYC, a one-day event...