Parks and Recreation

Things heated up fast at Sara D. Roosevelt Park, on Chrystie and Stanton Streets, last night when the sixth annual NYC Showdown got underway. Fans gathered outside the field and filled the bleachers starting at 5 p.m., an hour...

Summer is now in full-swing.  Today the city opens its outdoor pools, including the Olympic sized Hamilton Fish pool on Pitt Street.  Yesterday, we stopped by the recreation center to have an early look. Recreation Director Carmen Torres, who has...

The annual soccer tournament hosted by the Steve Nash Foundation is back next Wednesday for its sixth year in a row on the Lower East Side, bringing players from both basketball courts and soccer fields to Nash’s “home pitch”...

From frequent East River Park visitor David Flaherty:  Signs of improvement at the bandshell.  He also reports work has begun to repair the dog run at Corlears Hook Park, which was damaged during Hurricane Sandy.  

This coming Sunday afternoon, the Friends of Gulick Park will be marking "It's My Park Day" with a basketball clinic, a playmobile being brought in by the city and lots of other fun activities.  Most of all, though, they'll...

Last night, members of Community Board 3 and local residents got their first look at master plan proposals for a large new park in the works at Pier 42.  Two options outlined by Signe Nielsen of Mathews Nielsen, an...

For our regular feature spotlighting the people who live and work on the Lower East Side, we talked with longtime local resident and merchant Frank Arroyo of Frank’s Bike Shop on Grand Street. (This story was first published in...

It will be years before the dream of building a large new park at Pier 42, near Gouverneur Street, is realized.  But this past weekend, community activists, non-profit organizations and local politicians took an important symbolic step toward claiming...

This coming weekend, local organizations are inviting Lower East Side residents to a section of Pier 42, just north of Montgomery Street, for a community day. As you may have heard, the Parks Department is moving ahead with plans...

Over at East River Park, the Lower East Side Sports Academy launched its spring baseball program the weekend before last. The non-profit organization offers various recreational activities to kids in under-served communities throughout the LES.  If you'd like more...