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Oct 81 min read

Orlando Camargo Elected to Friends of Morningside Park Board

We are pleased to announce the election of new Board member Orlando Camargo. Orlando joins the organization's leadership team with a...

Apr 122 min read

April Throwback - The Who at Morningside Park and the Sorry State of the Carl Schurz Monument Today

On April 5, 1968 photographer Art Kane working for Life Magazine assembled the members of The Who for a photo shoot at the Carl Schurz...

Apr 91 min read

Your Participatory Budgeting Vote Can Help Morningside Park!

This is participatory budgeting vote week and it's not too late to vote for improvements to the park entrance at West 110th Street and...

Feb 211 min read

Throwback Thursday - All the way back to our founding in 1981!

We've uncovered two amazing gems from our organizations archives. A paste up of the first flyer for the first meeting of the group on...

Dec 28, 20233 min read

PRESIDENT'S YEAR END LETTER - HELP US BUILD ON A BANNER YEAR

Dear Friends, As 2023 draws to a close we celebrate major milestones and the enormous progress we have made together while recognizing...

Dec 9, 20231 min read

ACTION NEEDED! No More Funding Cuts to Parks

We're not ones to forward emails but sometimes exceptions must be made and this message from City Parks Foundation meets that high bar....

Aug 11, 20232 min read

Water Water Everywhere

It’s been 55 years since Columbia's bulldozers rolled into Morningside Park in a failed attempt to build a gymnasium on the site in 1968,...

Aug 10, 20232 min read

Free Yoga Wednesdays

This summer patrons of Morningside Park have had the benefit of free yoga classes every Wednesday provided by the Harlem Wellness Center....

Jun 13, 20231 min read

Petition to Fix the Morningside Park Waterfall and Pond.

The Morningside Park Waterfall has not worked in years and the Morningside Park Pond seems to be plagued with Harmful Algal Blooms (HABS)...