Meet our cute park pals—the many, many squirrels that call New York City's parks home. A true New Yorker, our squirrels play a major role in greeting park lovers and helping to nourish our trees. The ...

There are about 50 species of flying squirrels ranging across most of North America down into Central America, and stretching from Southeast and Northern Asia into Siberia and Scandinavia.

Squirrels aren’t natural city slickers. In 1856 the sight of one in a tree near New York’s city hall so shocked ... “I think there’s something constructive to having other living creatures ...