Dan Garodnick News

The Riverside Park Conservancy, a non-profit organization which raises half of the budget for Riverside Park, a 6 mile public park on Manhattan's West Side waterfront, will hold its spring event on June 5, 2018. 

The award-winning series MetroFocus premieres new episodes in the New York and tri-state region weeknights at 5 p.m. on WLIW21, 5:30 p.m. on NJTV and 6 p.m. on THIRTEEN. All episodes are available at metrofocus.org following the broadcast.

The New York City Council is moving forward with wrangling in the costumed characters of Times Square.

Twitter documents instances of Times Square's costumed characters harassing pedestrians.

The city council has introduced legislation to regulate aggressive solicitation on pedestrian plazas.

The Times Square Alliance and elected officials will join people who've experienced aggressive solicitation and harassment on the Times Square plazas at a news conference on Monday, March 28th at 11:00 AM on Duffy Square, 46th Street and Broadway, to detail the need for the City to regulate pedestrian plazas and to recount their negative experiences with hawkers and hustlers in Times Square.

According to the Times Square Alliance, Broadway's latest ticket slump may be at the hands of the area's notorious costumed panhandlers.

Starting this week, the leading arts education non-profit Inside Broadway (www.InsideBroadway.org) will begin its acclaimed afterschool arts program at schools throughout New York City.

NYC Parks Commissioner Veronica M. White today joined City Council Member Daniel Garodnick, State Senators Brad Hoylman and Liz Krueger, State Assembly Member Brian Kavanagh, Manhattan Community Board 6 Chair Sandro Sherrod, United Nations Development Corp. Vice President Frances Huppert, and neighborhood residents to break ground on a new park at Asser Levy Place.

Today, December 20, 2012, artists, activists, corporate leaders, celebrities, politicians, Nobel Peace Prize laureates and individuals around the planet are coming together to do exactly what the Mayan Calendar predicts will happen - create a paradigm shift away from the world as we know it, and towards a more humane and peaceful world.

On December 20, 2012, artists, activists, corporate leaders, celebrities, politicians, Nobel Peace Prize laureates and individuals around the planet are coming together to do exactly what the Mayan Calendar predicts will happen - create a paradigm shift away from the world as we know it, and towards a more humane and peaceful world.

Rock Of Ages Tony-nominated star Constantine Maroulis, Tony Award-winner (for Gypsy) Laura Benanti and her husband Steven Pasquale (Reasons To Be Pretty) and Tony-nominated Judy Kuhn (Les Miz, Chess, Rags, She Loves Me) were among the Broadway honorees and performers at the Thursday June 25 Inside Broadway Broadway Beacon Awards at The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY.

Rock Of Ages Tony-nominated star Constantine Maroulis, Tony Award-winner (for Gypsy) Laura Benanti and her husband Steven Pasquale (Reasons To Be Pretty) and Tony-nominated Judy Kuhn (Les Miz, Chess, Rags, She Loves Me) are among the Broadway honorees and performers at the Thursday June 25 Inside Broadway Broadway Beacon Awards at 5:30 PM at The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY.

Rock Of Ages Tony-nominated star Constantine Maroulis, Tony Award-winner (for Gypsy) Laura Benanti and her husband Steven Pasquale (Reasons To Be Pretty) and Tony-nominated Judy Kuhn (Les Miz, Chess, Rags, She Loves Me) are among the Broadway honorees and performers at the Thursday June 25 Inside Broadway Broadway Beacon Awards at 5:30 PM at The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY.

Rock Of Ages Tony-nominated star Constantine Maroulis, Tony Award-winner (for Gypsy) Laura Benanti and her husband Steven Pasquale (Reasons To Be Pretty) and Tony-nominated Judy Kuhn (Les Miz, Chess, Rags, She Loves Me) are among the Broadway honorees and performers at the Thursday June 25 Inside Broadway Broadway Beacon Awards at 5:30 PM at The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY.

Rock Of Ages Tony-nominated star Constantine Maroulis, Tony Award-winner (for Gypsy) Laura Benanti and her husband Steven Pasquale (Reasons To Be Pretty) and Tony-nominated Judy Kuhn (Les Miz, Chess, Rags, She Loves Me) are among the Broadway honorees and performers at the Thursday June 25 Inside Broadway Broadway Beacon Awards at 5:30 PM at The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY.

Inside Broadway, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, and has introduced over 750 thousand New York City children to musical theatre, will present Creating The Magic, its unique annual free public Broadway educational event, on Thursday May 29 at 10:30 AM.

The York Theatre Company presents The Baker's Wife as the fourth and final show in the Fall 2007 Musicals in Mufti Series - the York's acclaimed series of musical theatre gems in staged concert performances. This Series celebrates the work of playwright Joseph Stein. Remaining performances are Saturday October 27 at 8PM and Sunday, October 28 at 2:30PM & 7:30PM at the Theatre at Saint Peters.