The Central Park Zoo is a great place for families to check out hundreds of different animals. (Staten Island Advance/Shane DiMaio) And the bird sanctuary may be the most interactive of the bunch.

In 2003, an army of 350 scientists and volunteers swept out across Central Park. Their mission, called a BioBlitz, was to find as many species as possible over the course of 24 hours. At the end ...

The Central Park Zoo was closed on Friday due to the heavy rain — but the intrepid sea lion swam outside her enclosure as several inches of rain overwhelmed the plaza around the pool.

The owl, who lives in the Central Park Zoo in Manhattan, was discovered missing around 8:30 p.m. Thursday after its exhibit was found vandalized. Zoo employees have eyes on the owl.

After escaping from a Central Park Zoo enclosure, Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl, has eluded various rescue attempts. Zoo officials were once uncertain about his survival in the wild, but Flaco has ...

Before the Central Park Zoo, Animals Were Kept in the Basement of the Arsenal. In 1859, what is now the Central Park Zoo began to form on the grounds around the Arsenal, a brick, ...

A female sea lion, known as Sally, escaped from her enclosure at the Central Park Zoo briefly on Friday, swimming out of the pool where she is kept when the heavy rains lashing New York City ...

The Central Park Zoo in NYC wasn't part of the original park plan. It started as a menagerie with donated animals and saw its first building in 1875.