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Chalking on the Fountain Plaza at Washington Square Park, 2014. “I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you’ve got.” – via Honschar More … Read more…
Updated 5/5, 10:27 a.m. Washington Square Park Conservancy stated at its onset in 2013 that programming was not part of the private organization’s “safe, clean and beautiful” mission for the park. The four affluent private … Read more…
Community Board 2 At Last Responds to Recent Concerns on Washington Sq Park Conservancy Please attend virtually the next Community Board 2 Parks Committee Meeting Wednesday, May 4th addressing Washington Square Park Conservancy: Community Board … Read more…
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In June of 2013, the four founding members of what would then become Washington Square Park Conservancy came before Community Board 2’s Parks Committee for a “public hearing” in order to get “approval” for their … Read more…
The follow-up to my piece from earlier this month, Highlights from Gothamist Article — Mission Creep: Emails Show how Wealthy Donors Exerted Influence Over Washington Square Park, is coming Friday. This is regarding the private … Read more…
Opportunity for Public Comment If you have something you’d like to address within the community – related to Washington Square Park, or not – you can attend virtually and also sign up for public comment … Read more…
Hi, I started a Substack for some other writing. I’m still working on getting a groove to it. I posted a piece today, The Commercialization of Earth Day: We’re so used to everything being commercialized … Read more…
Earth Day Rally to Protest Poison Parks in New York City Toxic Roundup (glyphosate) pesticide continues to be used in New York City parks. Union Square Park * Thursday, April 21st at 12 noon George … Read more…
Spring has sprung at Washington Square Park! Photo: Here is New York via Instagram Spread the love
The answer is to abolish private park corporations (and, yes, that’s what they are – private corporations) The New York Daily News this past week ran an Op-Ed by professor/author Kevin Loughran on private conservancies … Read more…
from left to right: Justine Leguizamo, Veronica Bulgari, Gwen Evans, Betsey Ely Last week, Gothamist ran an explosive piece, Mission Creep: Emails Show how Wealthy Donors Exerted Influence Over Washington Square Park outlining exactly that. … Read more…
“Public-Private” Background Today is NYC Parks Commissioner Sue Donoghue’s first day on the job. New York City has never appointed a public-private partnership head to be in charge of the city’s very public Parks Department. … Read more…
The first President of the United States, George Washington, was born on February 22nd, 1732. The Arch at Washington Square Park is a memorial to Washington who served as President from 1789 to 1797. The … Read more…
In many ways, more recent Washington Square Park remains informed by the famous bohemian, free spirited “Arch Conspirators”‘ takeover of the Arch in 1917. Some may not be aware of what transpired then. Yet there … Read more…