It’s set to make a big splash. A massive, free city pool will open at the northern tip of Central Park Friday after years of construction — and following a record-breaking heat wave this week. The ...

New York City experienced its first substantial snowfall of the season over the weekend, transforming Central Park into a ...

For the first time, New York City's Central Park Conservancy is calling for a ban on carriage horses in the park. Conservancy President and CEO Elizabeth W. Smith wrote to Mayor Eric Adams and City ...

NEW YORK -- For more than 150 years, horse-drawn carriages have been trotting through Manhattan's Central Park, weathering the arrival of the automobile, years of criticism from animal rights ...

The Central Park Conservancy, which manages the park, had not taken a public stance on the issue as it became politically contentious — until now. By Ed Shanahan The nonprofit group that manages ...

New York City has long argued over whether to ban the horse-drawn carriages that ferry tourists around Central Park and other sites. Now, it looks like the horses may at last be put out to pasture.

The nonprofit organization that manages Central Park in concert with New York City has come out in support of a ban on the iconic horse-drawn carriages that operate in the park. “We do not take this ...