Central Park

FACING the corner of Fifth Avenue and E. 64th Street is a former state militia armory that serves as the headquarters of NYC Parks. As a landmarked building, its history…

FALCONRY is the art of training birds of prey to catch game (in which they are instinctually adept) and bring them back to the trainer, or falconer. Small game such…

Something a little unusual today: an FNY page composed in 2010 that somehow was left off the two site reconstructions done in 2011 and 2019. Some of this info may…

THIS view of Bethesda Fountain, at the north end of the Mall in Central Park, is always a heavily-traveled park vista in the warm months, and this view that I…

I have only been in the Arsenal, a handsome brick building facing 5th Avenue and East 64th Street, just once, to see an art exhibition several years ago. Before there…

On an early April Sunday, braving winds that were colder than many days in January, I was unsteadily tottering in the East 60s near Central Park for other purposes, but…

At the “Scholar’s Gate” entrance to Central Park at 5th Avenue and 60th Street you will find a bronze statue of photographer Diane Arbus, created by sculptor Gillian Wearing, scheduled…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent THE last civilian passenger car traveled on the internal roads of Central Park on June 26, 2018, as bike activists and joggers celebrated the…

Bronxites of a certain age who paid attention in their high school history classes might think that Webster Avenue was named for the famed Massachusetts Congressman and orator Daniel Webster. However,…

Central Park’s Pilgrim Hill can be found just inside the park entrance at 5th Avenue and 72nd Street and takes its name from the stylized representation of one of the…

This lamp, at the Central Park entrance at 5th Avenue and East 60th Street, was donated by Hamburg, West Germany in 1979 and is a replica of an ornate lamp found…

Here’s the entrance to the Columbus Circle subway station, officially 59th Street for the IND trains this entrance was constructed for, at Central Park West at Central Park South. It’s…