Tag Archives: Central Park

Courtesy of the Karpel Group, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is the long-awaited DVD release of Diana Ross: Live In Central Park, the famously storm-drenched show that has passed into New York City legend. On July 21, 1983, the legendary Diana Ross took the stage in New York’s Central Park before an audience of over 800,000. Soon after the entertainer began, …

Colder and gloomy today. Might have seen a random flake, too.

I came across this park worker installing some new paving stones noting gifts to the Central Park Conservancy’s tree endowment fund. Reading the plaques is like a short history in recent events, as some of the gifts are made in the names of disaster victims: 9/11, Japan’s earthquake, the 2004 tsunami, etc. Many of the park’s oldest trees were destroyed …

It’s now the Trump Wollman Rink, but nobody calls it that.

It’s a glorious afternoon and about fifty degrees warmer than it was just a few days ago. The park was quite busy. This photo embiggens nicely.

The Central Park Conservancy says that damage from Saturday’s storm was the worst in many decades, with at least 1000 trees totally destroyed. Thousands of others were severely damaged and will take many years to recover. Particularly hard hit were the entrances and edges of the park, where winds were highest. The Daily Mail has lots of depressing photos.

The snow wasn’t supposed to start until tonight, but it began pummeling down by 11am. The flakes have been huge and mixed intermittently with driving wind/rain. I spotted two downed trees on the short ride through the park.

Reverend Sister Go-Go, aka Go-Go’s drummer guitarist Jane Wiedlin, married two women in Central Park this week. And you too can have Reverend Sister Go-Go officiate your nuptials.[Photo Credit: Big Gay Ice Cream @ Twitter ] (Tipped by JMG reader Fritz)

The wait staff is striking at Central Park’s famed Boathouse, whose owners are accused of union busting after paying the city many millions for the restaurant’s concession. This week striking workers revealed that the Boathouse’s trademark bottled water, at $8 a glass, is nothing more than Manhattan tap water. Whoopsie. According to the servers, they’ve been forced to lie to …

As I mentioned at the time, two weeks ago Father Tony performed two same-sex weddings in Central Park as part of the Pop-Up Chapel festivities. Click over to Bilerico today for Tony’s own recounting of the day.

On a gorgeous cloudless day, today dozens of gay couples married in the shade of two “pop-up chapels” in Central Park, with our own Father Tony officiating at two of the ceremonies. Above are newlyweds Jen and Rose, moments after Father Tony made it legal. Below, John and Rob exchange rings. Also on hand were hair and make-up artists who …

After landing on the Good Morning America stage via an overhead zipline, Gaga played a piano inside a hollowed-out unicorn. UPDATE: Sorry, folks. Video yanked.

About a dozen married straight couples were “umarried until gay marriage” yesterday in a Central Park protest staged by performance artist Reverend Billy. More photos here.

Popular performance artist Rev. Billy and his Church of Life After Shopping will stage a mass un-wedding in Central Park this Sunday. Straight, married supporters of same sex marriage will un-marry in a mass ritual at New York City’s Bethesda Angel this Valentine’s Day weekend, sending a strong message to New York State’s leadership for the for the second year …

Photo by JMG reader Inga Sarda-Sorensen.

Photo by JMG reader Inga.

Today NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg will announce a complete ban on smoking in city parks and on city beaches. After months of considering the issue, Mayor Bloomberg will today announce that the city will institute a smoking ban in parks and on beaches, sources said. The new ban requires City Council approval, which seems assured since the mayor will be …

New York City’s parks are getting free wifi. Sort of. Cable giants Time Warner and Cablevision have agreed to spend $10 million to provide WiFi service in 32 parks as part of a deal in which the city agreed to give a 10-year renewal of the companies’ lucrative cable-television franchises. Under that deal, which city officials announced Tuesday after two …