east river park

The popular skateboarding spot was in jeopardy.

'Whatever the park is giving us, you’re going to take it all away,' said Yvette Mercedes, a Baruch Houses resident, whose children play in the park. 'We need fixing, but why do it all at once?'

After millions of dollars and countless hours spent fielding input from Lower East Side residents, the city now plans to abandon a long-in-the-works redesign of East River Park.

The mural was tied to the fences with dozens of steel ties.

Niles has a history of other arrests for violent crimes.

Police also charged him with groping a woman before the rape.

The suspect allegedly stole the victim's credit card and used it.

Cops say the suspect grabbed the 26-year-old runner by the hair and dragged her into the park's amphitheater, where he raped her.

The woman had been jogging in the park at 11:30 a.m. when she was attacked.

Police are searching for a man who tried to rape a woman as she jogged on the esplanade in East River Park yesterday just before noon.

Construction is set to begin in June, and you WILL be able to "dip your feet" into the water, not that you'd ever want to.

Yesterday a large number (thousands?) of predominantly (but not entirely!) white urban