Parks Department

For Arbor Day, the kids at Harlem RBI's Dream Charter School plant wildflowers in a lot once littered with garbage.

The Parks Department effort to leave frozen animals for a hawk family may not work because they prefer live animals.

The Parks Department will leave food for a mother and baby hawk after the father was found dead and feared poisoned.

Inwood officials and advocates were surprised when Columbia University announced it signed a benefit agreement.

Students from the Art Students League will display sculptures for a year starting in June.

The Parks Department replaced the missing glasses of the Gandhi statue in Union Square Park on Friday.

Peggy Quisenberry was honored as one of a team of volunteers who planted thousands of daffodils in memory of 9/11.

Neighbors have been pressing the city for more than a year to fix up the dilapidated Dry Dock Park in Alphabet City.

Columbus Circle has become a popular hangout for high schools kids who use the steps as a skate park.

Birdwatchers blasted the Parks Department for putting rat poison too close to the Riverside Park hawks' nest.

The Parks Department wants vendors to sell food from carts designed with a "Victorian-era" look.

The glasses on Union Square Park's Gandhi statue were reported missing last week. They'll be replaced soon, Parks said.

A celebration is planned for the official opening of Indian Road Playground.

Historic statues scattered through Battery Park will soon be replanted along a bikeway.

Neighbor efforts to rid Kimlau Square of skaters and cyclists have led to more seating in the busy public plaza.