10:00 AM–01:00 PM on Sunday, August 01, 2010

Every Sunday from 10:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M.

Meet at 153rd street and Riverside Drive every Sunday at 10:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. Work with Zone Gardener William Thigpen to maintain and clear this uptown area while enjoying the beautiful view.

Please fill out the volunteer application on our website to sign up.

Categories: Family/Kids Event Other Park Activity Volunteer Activity

10:00 AM–12:00 PM on Sunday, August 01, 2010

Join this volunteer run event every Sunday to help maintain and keep up this beautiful area of the park from now through Labor Day. Please fill out our volunteer application form for more details.

Every Sunday from 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.

Please fill out the volunteer application on our website to participate.

Categories: Family/Kids Event Other Park Activity Volunteer Activity

10:30 AM–01:00 PM on Monday, August 02, 2010

Come volunteer at Riverside Park every Monday this summer from 10:30 A.M. till 1 P.M.

The program will continues until the end of August.

Meet Justin Hova, Zone Gardener, at the West 91st Street Park House, inside the park, at 10:30 a.m. every Monday. Please fill out the volunteer application on our website to sign up.

Categories: Family/Kids Event Other Park Activity Volunteer Activity

06:00 PM–07:00 PM on Monday, August 02, 2010

Walk NYC is a FREE program that encourages New Yorkers of all ages to get fit while enjoying the outdoors. With funding provided by Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, Parks will have 30 park locations throughout the city staffed with trained walking instructors to lead walks.

Riverside Park (North)
Meet at northwest corner of Riverside Drive and 96th Street
Mondays, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Categories: Family/Kids Event Wellness Event

09:00 AM–10:00 AM on Wednesday, August 04, 2010

All little ones (5 and under) welcome at this introduction to soccer.

Riverside Park South is located on the Hudson River between 59th and 72nd Streets. This event is FREE. Weather Permitting.

New York Weather Hotline 866-560-7669

Categories: Family/Kids Event Wellness Event Summer on the Hudson

10:30 AM–11:30 AM on Wednesday, August 04, 2010

All little ones (5 and under) welcome at this introduction to basketball.

Riverside Park South is located on the Hudson River between 59th and 72nd Streets. This event is FREE. Weather Permitting.

New York Weather Hotline 866-560-7669

Categories: Family/Kids Event Wellness Event Summer on the Hudson

08:30 PM– on Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Movies for those who believe in escaping into a good book. Appropriate for tweens and teens as well as adults. THIS YEAR’S THEME: TALL TALES.

This week’s movie: Big Fish
Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter
Directed by Tim Burton – 2004; 125 minutes; PG13
A story about a son trying to learn more about his dying father by reliving stories and myths his father told him about himself.

Riverside Park South is located on the Hudson River between 59th and 72nd Streets. This event is FREE. Weather Permitting.

New York Weather Hotline 866-560-7669

Categories: Family/Kids Event Movie/Theater Event Summer on the Hudson

10:00 AM–01:00 PM on Thursday, August 05, 2010

Come out and volunteer your time to help us with the Woodland Restoration Project!

Every Thursday this summer from 10:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M.

The program will begin continues until the end of August.

Meet Manny Linares, Zone Gardener, at the West 108th Street Volunteer House, inside the park, at 10 a.m. every Thursday.

Please fill out the volunteer application on our website to sign up.

Categories: Family/Kids Event Other Park Activity Volunteer Activity

10:30 AM–11:30 AM on Thursday, August 05, 2010

Music, storytelling & theater for young audiences. Suitable for kids up to age 7.
This week’s perfomer: Erin Lee & Marci. Join NYC’s hilarious-yet-hip duo for a family concert celebrating mud puddles, couch forts, neighborhood baseball games, terrible haircuts and other assorted joys (and challenges) of summer.

Riverside Park South is located on the Hudson River between 59th and 72nd Streets. This event is FREE. Weather Permitting.

New York Weather Hotline 866-560-7669

Categories: Family/Kids Event Musical/Dance Event Summer on the Hudson

01:00 PM–04:00 PM on Thursday, August 05, 2010

This summer, bring your children to Riverside Park for drop-in ranger programs. kids love earning their Nature Detective badge as they explore the “wild” side of parks with the Rangers. Scavenger hunts, “tree-mendous” hikes, and/or wildlife experiences await! Programs take place Thursdays , June 30 through Auugust 20. All programs begin and end at the 83rd Street (River Run) Playground.

To learn more about the Urban Park Rangers, please visit the NYC Parks &
Recreation website or call 311 and ask for the Urban Park Rangers.

Categories: Family/Kids Event

06:00 PM–08:00 PM on Thursday, August 05, 2010

The oppressive heat of a New York summer often strains one’s relationship to the city. Reignite your passion for New York by participating in Trivia Night @ Hudson Beach Cafe! The cafe located in a delightfully shaded nook of Riverside Park at 105th street, at a charmingly unpretentious bar offering a bevy of refreshing drinks.

Trivia Night promises to be a much-needed oasis from one of the hottest summers on record. Trivia will take place on Thursday evenings at 6pm, beginning July 22nd and lasting until August 19th. Arrive at the cafe with a team of four, and prepare to partake in five rounds of exhilarating questioning that will span such diverse, but familiarly New York topics, like Joe DiMaggio and Woody Allen. Topics are appropriate for all ages and families are more than encouraged to attend. There is no entry fee and all participants will be offered drink specials. The fiercest competitors

Categories: Family/Kids Event Other Park Activity

07:00 PM–09:00 PM on Saturday, August 07, 2010

Calling all blankets, picnic baskets, and candles! The Riverside Clay Tennis Association is once again hosting its series of sunset concerts on the tennis lawn. The Series, sponsored by the specialty foods marketplace Garden of Eden and the omega-3 sports supplement Recoup90, celebrates our fabulous park and represents the rich cultural diversity of the Upper West Side. Bring your picnic basket and blanket and join us. Stick around afterward and watch the fireflies rise up out of the lawn and the stars speckle the sky.

Tonight’s performance is by the Gilad Bloom Rock Band, formed by Gilad Bloom about ten years ago. Bloom is an ex pro tennis player who played on the ATP Tour for 13 years and represented his native country in Davis and in 2 Olympic games (Seoul 88 and Barcelona 92), he currently has his own Tennis Academy in NYC.

Sponsored by www.Recoup90.com

Categories: Family/Kids Event Musical/Dance Event RCTA Sunset Concert Series

09:00 AM–10:00 AM on Wednesday, August 11, 2010

All little ones (5 and under) welcome at this introduction to soccer.

Riverside Park South is located on the Hudson River between 59th and 72nd Streets. This event is FREE. Weather Permitting.

New York Weather Hotline 866-560-7669

Categories: Family/Kids Event Wellness Event Summer on the Hudson

10:30 AM–11:30 AM on Wednesday, August 11, 2010

All little ones (5 and under) welcome at this introduction to basketball.

Riverside Park South is located on the Hudson River between 59th and 72nd Streets. This event is FREE. Weather Permitting.

New York Weather Hotline 866-560-7669

Categories: Family/Kids Event Wellness Event Summer on the Hudson

08:30 PM– on Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Movies for those who believe in escaping into a good book. Appropriate for tweens and teens as well as adults. THIS YEAR’S THEME: TALL TALES.

This week’s movie: Stranger than Fiction
Starring Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifah, Dustin Hoffman
Directed by Marc Forster – 2006; 113 minutes; Rated PG-13
An IRS auditor suddenly finds himself the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire life, from his work, to his love-interest, to his death.

Riverside Park South is located on the Hudson River between 59th and 72nd Streets. This event is FREE. Weather Permitting.

New York Weather Hotline 866-560-7669

Categories: Family/Kids Event Movie/Theater Event Summer on the Hudson

10:30 AM–11:30 AM on Thursday, August 12, 2010

Music, storytelling & theater for young audiences. Suitable for kids up to age 7.
This week’s perfomer: City Parks Foundation presents Puppeteers from the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater in “Sleeping Beauty”

Riverside Park South is located on the Hudson River between 59th and 72nd Streets. This event is FREE. Weather Permitting.

New York Weather Hotline 866-560-7669

Categories: Family/Kids Event Summer on the Hudson

01:00 PM–08:00 PM on Thursday, August 12, 2010

Fan of basketball? Why not volunteer at the Annual Riverside Classic Basketball Tournament. The tournament runs AUGUST 3 – AUGUST 19 with games every hour on TUESDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY. Volunteers are needed to help set up and clean up, time keep as well as keep score for every game day from 8 AM to 9 PM.

The schedule is set as follows:

Date: Time: Games:

Aug 3 9:30am-8:30pm 6 games
Aug 5 9:30am-8:30pm 6 games
Aug 7 9:30am-8:30pm 6 games
Aug 10 9:30am-8:30pm 6 games
Aug 12 1:00pm-8:00pm 4 games
Aug 14 9:30am-8:30pm 6 games
Aug 17 1:00pm-8:00pm 4 games
Aug 19 4:00pm-9:00pm 2 games

• August 3, 5, 7, 10, 14th we’ll be there from 9:30am (setup) (game play 11am-7pm) to 830pm.

• August 12 & 17th we’ll be there from 1:00pm (setup) (game play 2pm-7pm) to 800pm.

• August 19th we’ll be there from 4:00pm (setup) (game play 5-8) to 9pm.

If you are available at any of these times or interested in other ways to help out please contact Zhen Heinemann [Zhen.Heinemann@parks.nyc.gov], 212.408.0219. Your help is hugely appreciated.

Categories: Family/Kids Event Volunteer Activity

07:00 PM–09:00 PM on Saturday, August 14, 2010

Calling all blankets, picnic baskets, and candles! The Riverside Clay Tennis Association is once again hosting its series of sunset concerts on the tennis lawn. The Series, sponsored by the specialty foods marketplace Garden of Eden and the omega-3 sports supplement Recoup90, celebrates our fabulous park and represents the rich cultural diversity of the Upper West Side. Bring your picnic basket and blanket and join us. Stick around afterward and watch the fireflies rise up out of the lawn and the stars speckle the sky.

Tonight’s performance is by the Steve Tarshish Trio Folk & Blues band

Sponsored by www.Recoup90.com

Categories: Family/Kids Event Musical/Dance Event RCTA Sunset Concert Series

04:00 PM–09:00 PM on Thursday, August 19, 2010

Fan of basketball? Why not volunteer at the Annual Riverside Classic Basketball Tournament. The tournament runs AUGUST 3 – AUGUST 19 with games every hour on TUESDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY. Volunteers are needed to help set up and clean up, time keep as well as keep score for every game day from 8 AM to 9 PM.

The schedule is set as follows:

Date: Time: Games:

Aug 3 9:30am-8:30pm 6 games
Aug 5 9:30am-8:30pm 6 games
Aug 7 9:30am-8:30pm 6 games
Aug 10 9:30am-8:30pm 6 games
Aug 12 1:00pm-8:00pm 4 games
Aug 14 9:30am-8:30pm 6 games
Aug 17 1:00pm-8:00pm 4 games
Aug 19 4:00pm-9:00pm 2 games

• August 3, 5, 7, 10, 14th we’ll be there from 9:30am (setup) (game play 11am-7pm) to 830pm.

• August 12 & 17th we’ll be there from 1:00pm (setup) (game play 2pm-7pm) to 800pm.

• August 19th we’ll be there from 4:00pm (setup) (game play 5-8) to 9pm.

If you are available at any of these times or interested in other ways to help out please contact Zhen Heinemann [Zhen.Heinemann@parks.nyc.gov], 212.408.0219. Your help is hugely appreciated.

Categories: Family/Kids Event Volunteer Activity Wellness Event

06:00 PM–08:00 PM on Thursday, August 19, 2010

Thursdays 6-8pm – August 19, 26th and September 2
West Harlem Piers Park @ 125th
Poems in the Park: Brought to you by Summer on the Hudson and the Riverside Park Fund! Adding spoken word to a long list of free cultural programming sweeping Riverside Park, the Poems on the Park project will bring NYC residents a chance to read their original works, and to listen to those of their neighbors! An open mic style performance, means anyone of any age can strut their literary stuff! Beginning August 19th at 6 PM, and continuing on August 26th and September 2nd, the Poems in the Park readings will take place at the West Harlem Piers Park, with the entrance located at 125th. In addition to the readings, there will be a contest for any poetry submitted about the park or nature, the winner will be eligible for publication and other prizes! Hope to see you there!

Categories: Family/Kids Event Meeting/Presentation/Lecture Other Park Activity

07:00 PM–09:00 PM on Saturday, August 21, 2010

Calling all blankets, picnic baskets, and candles! The Riverside Clay Tennis Association is once again hosting its series of sunset concerts on the tennis lawn. The Series, sponsored by the specialty foods marketplace Garden of Eden and the omega-3 sports supplement Recoup90, celebrates our fabulous park and represents the rich cultural diversity of the Upper West Side. Bring your picnic basket and blanket and join us. Stick around afterward and watch the fireflies rise up out of the lawn and the stars speckle the sky.

Tonight’s Performance is by Los Hermanos Cintron, everyone who has ever heard them, loves the flamenco infusion of a style like the Gipsy Kings’ music. Its infectious, energetic rhythms and bold harmony-laced vocals get crowds going and get audiences feeling that hot Latin passion. Short of importing the real Gipsy Kings, you can do no better than Los Hermanos Cintron.

Sponsored by www.Recoup90.com

Click here for more information about the artist.

Categories: Family/Kids Event Musical/Dance Event RCTA Sunset Concert Series

01:00 PM–06:00 PM on Sunday, September 12, 2010

Enjoy a little country right here in Manhattan and celebrate the change of seasons with carnival rides and games, music, square dancing, sideshow performers, a petting zoo, greenmarket and more! Visit the “Green Acre” environmental corner with hands-on activities for kids about environmental awareness, green living, and animal care.

Riverside Park South is located on the Hudson River between 59th and 72nd Streets. This event is FREE. Weather Permitting. Call 212-408-0219 for information.

Categories: Family/Kids Event Summer on the Hudson

01:00 PM–06:00 PM on Sunday, September 12, 2010

Enjoy a little country right here in Manhattan and celebrate the change of seasons with carnival rides and games, music, square dancing, sideshow performers, a petting zoo, greenmarket and more! Visit the “Green Acre” environmental corner, with hands-on activities for kids about environmental awareness, green living, and animal care.

Riverside Park South is located on the Hudson River between 59th and 72nd Streets. This event is FREE. Weather Permitting.

New York Weather Hotline 866-560-7669

Categories: Family/Kids Event Summer on the Hudson

08:00 AM–08:00 PM on Saturday, September 25, 2010

Come celebrate the most beloved lighthouse in America, thanks to the children’s book “The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Grey Bridge” by Hildegard H. Swift, illustrated by Lynd Ward. The Little Red Lighthouse is actually correctly known as the Jeffreys Hook Lighthouse.

The current Jeffrey’s Hook Lighthouse was constructed in 1920 and commissioned in 1921, the second light on this site. Its purpose was to aid the navigation of shipping up the Hudson, the major transportation artery between New York City and the interior ports of Albany, Troy and beyond.

After the George Washington Bridge was constructed in the 1930s it was determined that the lighthouse was no longer needed and it was deactivated in 1947, and was scheduled for demolition. However, the children’s book popularized the little lighthouse dwarfed by the bridge, and the millions of children tho loved The Little Red Lighthouse spoke out saving it from destruction. It was later deeded to New York City.

Categories: Family/Kids Event Other Park Activity