Riverside Park

Highlights

Hippo Playground

The hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibious), which can measure up to 16 feet (5 meters) long and weigh almost 4 tons (3600 kilograms), is among the world’s largest… Read More

Hippopotamus Fountain

This piece by artist Robert J. Cassilly, Jr. is an interactive play sculpture featuring 14 hippopotami, two of which function as a spray fountain. The fiberglass hippos… Read More

Joan of Arc

This impressive bronze equestrian sculpture of 15th century French patriot and martyr Joan of Arc (1411–1431) is one of the finest works of art in the Parks collection.… Read More

Lafayette Square

Lafayette Square is named in honor of the prominent French statesman and military leader Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Montier Lafayette (1757-1834). Also known… Read More

Linda’S Lawn

Linda Stone Davidoff (1941-2003) devoted herself tirelessly to the city and its people as a planner, advocate and public servant.  In her lifetime, she headed several… Read More

Riverside Park

Riverside Park is one of only eight officially designated scenic landmarks in the City of New York. Rugged bluffs and rocky outcroppings created through prehistoric… Read More

Riverside Park South

In the 17th century the Riverside Park area was called “Bloemendal,” Dutch for “vale of flowers.” Its rolling topography and river views attracted country estates and… Read More

Samuel Tilden Statue

William Ordway Partridge (1861–1930) sculpted this bronze, larger-than-life figure of attorney and public servant Samuel Jones Tilden (1814–1886). It was dedicated… Read More

Seventy-Ninth Street Boat Basin

Parks & Recreation created this Boat Basin for the people of New York and the recreational boaters of the world. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s 1875 design… Read More

Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument

This massive circular temple-like monument located along Riverside Drive at 89th Street commemorates Union Army soldiers and sailors who served in the Civil War. This… Read More