Join NYRP for a free community celebration of North America’s largest native fruit: the beloved pawpaw and native trees. Featuring a pawpaw sapling giveaway, park tours, music, community partners, participant-powered smoothies made with our bike blender, and a workshop and talk about pawpaw propagation. Plus music and community partner activities!
Summer on the Hudson: Little Red Lighthouse Festival. Celebrate Manhattan’s only remaining lighthouse with the Urban Park Rangers, readings of the eponymous children’s book, live music, local organizations, and activities for all ages! The Little Red Lighthouse is beloved by New Yorkers and visitors alike. Join us in our quest to ensure that the Little Red Lighthouse can safely receive visitors for years to come. We highly recommend that visitors looking to tour the lighthouse earlier in the day arrive before noon. Tickets will be timed for a 40-minute window.
Great Trees of Inwood Hill Park. Join the Urban Park Rangers on a walk-through Manhattan’s oldest growth forest! Learn about the benefits trees provide to our urban environment as we enjoy the shade and identify many of our native trees.
Step into the action with live armored demonstrations, activities, exhibitions, and the sights, sounds, and excitement of medieval life! Step into the action at Gladiators NYC! Travel back in time for an afternoon of medieval adventure at Fort Tryon Park! Young adventurers can take up foam swords and shields, learn basic sword-and-shield skills from members of Gladiators NYC, and put their skills to the test in supervised sparring.
Hispanic Society: Feria de Libros with Word Up Community Bookshop. Feria de Libros with Word Up Community Bookshop. Find your next Spanish-language read at the Hispanic Society! Whether you’re looking for children’s books, YA literature, poetry, or non-fiction, Word Up has it all. Note: This book fair will take place indoors in our Sorolla Gallery.
The Dal Sogno Ensemble presents "Light Among the Shadows", luminous music by Nancy Bachmann, Laura Kaminsky and Stefania de Kenessey -- come and shine your light with us!
