Horseback Riding To Return To Central Park

by | May 5, 2011

After a three year hiatus visitors there will once again be able to saddle up under a new city plan to bring back horseback riding in a big way. Since the closure of Manhattan’s last stable, Claremont Riding Academy, in 2007, it’s been next to impossible...

Black Eyed Peas To Play Central Park

by | May 3, 2011

The band will perform in Central Park on June 9 to benefit the Robin Hood Foundation and fight poverty in the city. “This isn’t helping some person that’s half way across the world. This is somebody you walk by every day – it’s personal. It’s about the love of New...

Happy Birthday Frederick Law Olmsted!

by | Apr 26, 2011

Today marks the 199th birthday for visionary landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, famous for co-designing many well-known urban parks with his senior partner Calvert Vaux, including Central Park and Prospect Park. Olmsted spent his first two adult decades...

Celebrate Earth Day at the Central Park Zoo

by | Apr 22, 2011

Explore the mysterious frozen worlds of the Arctic and Antarctic in this exciting 4-D adventure from BBC Earth, showing at the Zoo’s 4-D theater. Planet Earth: Ice Worlds transports viewers to the danger-filled world of the Polar Regions and depicts the effects of the...

Tavern on the Green Re-Opening

by | Apr 15, 2011

The Scene at Tavern on the Green Tavern on the Green Visitor Center & Gift Shop Celebrate the season’s re-opening of the Tavern on the Green Food Truck Terrace with live music by The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn and free food samples from each of the food trucks:...