As forecasted, it snowed. While paltry in volume, it was enough to hit the streets to capture the late-winter wonderland. We may have been jumping the gun, though, as a heavier snowfall could be coming this Friday.
All photos by Bobby Panza.
Friendly snowball fights at the Great Lawn.
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Geese gather at Sheep Meadow.
Straus Park statue, unfazed.
Garbage snowman, Riverside Park near West 108th Street.
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Dedication at Skater’s Circle.
Andy Kessler Skate Park (108th in Riverside Park).
Hippo Playground, 91st in Riverside Park. Hippos aren’t cool with snow.
Fetch! By the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument.
Snowbaby at River Run Playground, 82nd in Riverside Park.
“Sing us a song, you’re the piano snowman.”
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Like children on a snow day. West 76th Street between Riverside Drive and West End Avenue.
St. Gregory’s Playground, 136 West 90th Street.
I’m an expatriate and I reminisce about Riverside Park all the time. I remember the snowy days. One evening when three or four inches of snow covered the park I got home from work and called my two good friends that lived at 77th and WEA, and said, “Let’s go sledding.” K. answered the phone and in those happy days she excitedly said “Yeah, we have our plastic disk sled.”
I got U., my next door neighbor girlfriend and we went to meet them in the Lobby of their apartment building. We all walked to the park where there was a short slope, to have some fun. We laughed discussing how four, 30+ friends would share one sled. It was still snowing lightly at the park and to our fortunate surprise we found an empty cardboard appliance carton. which had been left by some earlier, probably, teen group. After much wild fun we went to Gitlitz for Pastrami on Rye with mustard and Cole slaw sandwiches for dinner. It was a joyous night in a jewel of a park in the wonderful city that never has to have loneliness.