With recent unparalleled growth on the Lower East Side, a healthy, vibrant Seward Park is more important than ever. To celebrate our beloved park and raise money for its future, please join the Seward Park Conservancy on the magnificent rooftop of Nine Orchard for an evening under the stars.

Tickets: $150 per person; $275 for couples

• Drinks beneath the stars
• Canapés prepared by Mattos Hospitality, generously provided by Nine Orchard
• Desserts and confections
• Photos under the iconic Jarmulowsky Bank cupola

Thank you to our sponsors including Benefactor, Nine Orchard. Other sponsorship opportunities are available.

Puppet‌ ‌Time‌‌ ‌is‌ ‌‌a‌ ‌family-friendly‌ ‌variety‌ ‌show‌ ‌featuring‌ ‌songs‌ ‌from‌ ‌past‌ ‌‌Swedish‌ ‌Cottage‌ ‌Marionette‌ ‌Theatre‌ ‌‌performances‌ ‌including‌ ‌‌Pippi,‌ ‌Peter‌ ‌Pan,‌ ‌Princess,‌ ‌Emperor‌ ‌&‌ ‌The‌ ‌Duck.

Puppet‌ ‌Time‌‌ ‌is‌ ‌‌a‌ ‌family-friendly‌ ‌variety‌ ‌show‌ ‌featuring‌ ‌songs‌ ‌from‌ ‌past‌ ‌‌Swedish‌ ‌Cottage‌ ‌Marionette‌ ‌Theatre‌ ‌‌performances‌ ‌including‌ ‌‌Pippi,‌ ‌Peter‌ ‌Pan,‌ ‌Princess,‌ ‌Emperor‌ ‌&‌ ‌The‌ ‌Duck.

After Katie Mitchell is accepted to the university of her dreams, her father, Rick, decides that it will only be fitting for the whole family to drive her to school and have an adventure. However, their plans are ruined when technology—phones, appliances, and personal robots, among others—stages a revolution against humanity. They now find themselves with two malfunctioning robots working to save the world from destruction.

Bring a bike, a child and a helmet for these free and fun events hosted by NYC Parks and Bike New York. Teach your child, ages 5 years or older, how to ride a two-wheeler using the “balance first” method.

Free but you must register:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/learn-to-ride-seward-park-tickets-340219895867

François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in Paris. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement and difficulties in the classroom stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Neither stuffy nor severe, François’ extravagant frankness often takes the students by surprise. But his classroom ethics and his resolve are put to the test when his students begin to challenge his methods...

Films on the Green is produced annually in New York City parks by Villa Albertine, the French Embassy and FACE Foundation. 

In 1971 China, in the lingering grip of the cultural revolution, two university students are sent to a remote mountain village for re-education to purge them of their classical western-oriented education. Amid the backbreaking work and stifling ignorance of the community, the two boys find that music, and the local tailor’s seamstress granddaughter are the only pleasant things in their miserable life. After discovering a secret cache of forbidden books, they set about teaching her things she had never imagined.

Films on the Green is produced annually in New York City parks by Villa Albertine, the French Embassy and FACE Foundation. 

Join LES Ecology Center staff and the Seward Park Conservancy for a bioblitz of Seward Park

City Nature Challenge is an international competition for people in cities to find and document urban wildlife.

For more information and to register for this free event, click here.

Please note: Rescheduled from March 12th because of rain.

Join us on Saturday, April 2, 9:00am - 12:00pm to help get our park ready for spring! We will be collecting trash, weeding, and pruning Seward Park's beautiful rose bushes.

All ages are welcome and no experience is necessary. Materials and supplies will be provided — all we need is your help!

Register here.

Join the Lower East Side Ecology Center for a tree care event. For more information, click here:

https://allevents.in/new%20york/street-tree-care-e-broadway-at-seward-park/10000196779351337

Storytime is back! Join librarians from Seward Park Library for books, songs, and rhymes at the Seward Park amphitheater every Tuesday. Best for children up to age 6 and their caregivers. All attendees ages 2 and up MUST wear a mask. In the event of rain or extreme heat, storytime will be canceled. Please call the branch on the day of for program status.

Presented by New York Chinese Cultural Center

Sunday, September 26, 2021

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Seward Park

Seward Park, Canal St and, Essex St, New York, NY 10002

Performances at 11:00am and 12:00pm.

We are excited to present FREE shows in Manhattan Chinatown this August to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival and the revitalization of NYC. These performances are supported by GREEN / ARTS LIVE NYC and NYSCA’s Restart NY program.

Storytime is back! Join librarians from Seward Park Library for books, songs, and rhymes at the Seward Park amphitheater every Tuesday. Best for children up to age 6 and their caregivers. All attendees ages 2 and up MUST wear a mask. In the event of rain or extreme heat, storytime will be canceled. Please call the branch on the day of for program status.

Storytime is back! Join librarians from Seward Park Library for books, songs, and rhymes at the Seward Park amphitheater every Tuesday. Best for children up to age 6 and their caregivers. All attendees ages 2 and up MUST wear a mask. In the event of rain or extreme heat, storytime will be canceled. Please call the branch on the day of for program status.

Storytime is back! Join librarians from Seward Park Library for books, songs, and rhymes at the Seward Park amphitheater every Tuesday. Best for children up to age 6 and their caregivers. All attendees ages 2 and up MUST wear a mask. In the event of rain or extreme heat, storytime will be canceled. Please call the branch on the day of for program status.

Storytime is back! Join librarians from Seward Park Library for books, songs, and rhymes at the Seward Park amphitheater every Tuesday. Best for children up to age 6 and their caregivers. All attendees ages 2 and up MUST wear a mask. In the event of rain or extreme heat, storytime will be canceled. Please call the branch on the day of for program status.

Storytime is back! Join librarians from Seward Park Library for books, songs, and rhymes at the Seward Park amphitheater every Tuesday. Best for children up to age 6 and their caregivers. All attendees ages 2 and up MUST wear a mask. In the event of rain or extreme heat, storytime will be canceled. Please call the branch on the day of for program status.

In remembrance of the 20th anniversary of September 11th, Illegal Art and Seward Park Conservancy are hosting a community project on Saturday, September 11. We invite you to join us 11am - 2pm in Library Plaza to paint your memories of the morning sky that September day. The paintings will then be displayed in the Seward Park Branch of the New York Public Library until 10/1.

Kumandra is a place where humans and dragons peacefully coexist. When sinister monsters called the Druun threaten the community, however, the dragons readily make a sacrifice to save the human race. Hundreds of years later, the same threat returns. It is up to Raya, a lone warrior, to stop them once and for all. She tracks down the last dragon alive. But as she embarks on her journey, she realizes that it will take more than a dragon and its magic to save her world.
Free!

Storytime is back! Join librarians from Seward Park Library for books, songs, and rhymes at the Seward Park amphitheater every Tuesday. Best for children up to age 6 and their caregivers. All attendees ages 2 and up MUST wear a mask. In the event of rain or extreme heat, storytime will be canceled. Please call the branch on the day of for program status.

The Seward Park Conservancy and Henry Street Settlement present THE LION KING under the moonlight in the Lower East Side’s favorite park.

There will be chairs for the first 150 guests. Unfortunately due to COVID we are unable to provide popcorn, but please feel free to bring your own snacks, make it a night out and pack a picnic.

Entrance will be on East Broadway next to the Library.

Storytime is back! Join librarians from Seward Park Library for books, songs, and rhymes at the Seward Park amphitheater every Tuesday. Best for children up to age 6 and their caregivers. All attendees ages 2 and up MUST wear a mask. In the event of rain or extreme heat, storytime will be canceled. Please call the branch on the day of for program status.

Storytime is back! Join librarians from Seward Park Library for books, songs, and rhymes at the Seward Park amphitheater every Tuesday. Best for children up to age 6 and their caregivers. All attendees ages 2 and up MUST wear a mask. In the event of rain or extreme heat, storytime will be canceled. Please call the branch on the day of for program status.

Performances at 11:00am and 12:00pm.

We are excited to present FREE shows in Manhattan Chinatown this August to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival and the revitalization of NYC. These performances are supported by GREEN / ARTS LIVE NYC and NYSCA’s Restart NY program.

CANCELED because of weather forecast

Storytime is back! Join librarians from Seward Park Library for books, songs, and rhymes at the Seward Park amphitheater every Tuesday. Best for children up to age 6 and their caregivers. All attendees ages 2 and up MUST wear a mask. In the event of rain or extreme heat, storytime will be canceled. Please call the branch on the day of for program status.

Storytime is back! Join librarians from Seward Park Library for books, songs, and rhymes at the Seward Park amphitheater every Tuesday. Best for children up to age 6 and their caregivers. All attendees ages 2 and up MUST wear a mask. In the event of rain or extreme heat, storytime will be canceled. Please call the branch on the day of for program status.

Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP, cordially invites you to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the renovation of Seward Park (a Parks Without Borders project January 16 at 10 am. All are welcome.

Library Plaza, Seward Park, East Broadway at Jefferson Street.

A talk sponsored by our neighbor and partner Seward Park Library:

The Seward Park branch of the New York Public Library opened on November 11th, 1909. To celebrate 110 years of service to the Lower East Side, Librarian Andrew Fairweather will give a lecture that reveals the fascinating history of this neighborhood institution—focusing on the earliest years of the branch from 1909-1959 (before completion of the Seward Park Cooperative houses), this lecture will tell a story that places the Seward Park library’s commitments in context with greater trends in urban public library service, charting shifts in philosophy during the fifty year period.