Riverside Park’s overgrown grounds, crumbling infrastructure and floods have officials ‘screaming’ for funding after years of neglect

Riverside Park’s crumbling infrastructure and lakes of mud have locals fuming – as park officials blame City Hall for starving the greenspace of years of needed funding.

The Upper West Side has resembled Roman ruins in recent months: century-old stairs are crumbled into piles of wayward blocks, cobbled paths have grown into hedgerows of weeds, and pools of rainwater have turned lawns and walkways into bogs of muck and murky water.

“It’s just sort of a threadbare carpet,” said Jonathan Weiner, 70, a Columbia University teacher who has lived by the park for 20 years.

“There’s a lot that is a little bit sad to see remembering what it was like two decades ago,” he told The Post.

An Upper West Side dad named Joel, who regularly brings his son to the park, said the state of the place was “unnecessary.”

“The city runs the park like this? It’s ridiculous. They should be cutting the grass,” he said and pointed to a closed entryway. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen that entrance open.”