Who:               Rose Harvey, Commissioner, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and state legislators, community rink users

What:              Celebrate reopening of a $2.6 million overhaul of 20-year-old rink

When:             4:30 p.m., Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Where:           Riverbank State Park, 679 Riverside Drive, Manhattan

New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Commissioner Rose Harvey will join state leaders to celebrate a $2.6 million renovation of the Riverbank State Park ice rink in Harlem with an evening that includes skills clinics led by members of the New York Rangers professional hockey team, youth hockey games, skating, and an exhibition hockey game featuring Rangers alumni.

The Riverbank rink is used by approximately 400,000 people a year for learn-to-skate programs, open skating programs, figure skating programs, hockey leagues and roller skating. Completed in 1993, Riverbank State Park is a unique 28-acre multi-level landscaped recreational facility rising 69 feet above the Hudson River, located atop a water pollution control plant.