Parks Department

The Parks Department replaced "Cyclists Must Dismount" signs at the West 72nd Street path in Riverside Park with warnings that bikers must yield to walkers.

Community Board 5's Parks Committee voted unanimously in favor of an artist's bid to dress the George Washington Statue in Union Square in tourist gear.

Hundreds of Parks Department workers avoided layoffs this week, opting instead for a voluntary attrition program that would have them work 6 months out of the year.

NYPD and Parks Department officials will meet with elected officials, community leaders and residents to discuss new safety measures in uptown parks.

As part of the city's Monuments Conservation Program, two conservators and four interns descended on Madison Square Park on Wednesday to clean, wax and buff the park's 100-year-old monuments to a shine.

A bee nest that was spotted in Isham Park last week is gone, a week after a mother said she and her child were stung.

A Parks Department survey is looking to residents for ideas on how to keep city parks clean.

The new 7.25-acre waterfront park features sweeping skyline views and the recently renovated Renwick Ruins.

The Dyckman Marina Pier will soon be repaired after being shuttered nearly a year ago due to railing deterioration. 

Volunteers including Parsons The New School for Design students and Major League Soccer Players gathered to build the Splash House structure at Highbridge Pool in Washington Heights Tuesday. 

A necropsy showed the female great-horned owl found in Inwood Hill Park last month had died from a herpes infection.

The new playground at Pearl and Fulton streets is scheduled to open in the spring of 2012.

A lone food vendor continues to sell hamburgers and fried food along a stretch of Amsterdam Avenue after police and the Department of Health carried out a sweep.

Downtown's Collect Pond Park is getting a $4.6 million overhaul starting this summer.

While other boroughs are criticizing the city's tree-planting blitz, Midtown residents say it needs to branch into West 54th, 55th and 56th Streets.