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Month: September 2012
"Neighbors for A Viable Village" Fight for University Diner "Tradition" As Coffee Shop Closes after 70 Years
By most accounts, University Diner wasn’t perhaps the best diner in the world food-wise but it was a neighborhood force, a meeting spot, a place where the ‘old school’ (if you will) interactions took place … Read more…
Washington Square September 2012: Khalil Gibran on the Plaza, Fountain Plumes (Still) A Bit 'Off,' and Direction "To Happiness"
This artist, Honschar, has chalked memorable quotes on the Plaza at WSP a lot lately. He has a Facebook page. So, if you look at the Fountain from the west, the fountain plume looks as … Read more…
One Year of OWS – What Has and What Hasn't Changed in Bloomberg's NY
A really good recap of Occupy Wall Street, the unprovoked and needless arrests by Mayor Bloomberg’s NYPD, his “army,” as he (sadly) likes to say), and what OWS means on its one year anniversary which … Read more…
Occupy Wall Street Leads to One Year Anniversary with 3 Days of Community, Events & Action; Saturday, September 15th Kicks Off at Washington Square
Occupy Wall Street’s 1 Year Anniversary is on September 17th (it feels like so long ago in so many ways!). See My Visit to Zuccotti Park from early October 2011 (the two shots above are from … Read more…
Washington Square Park Folk Festival Returns for Year Two at WSP This Weekend (9/15 & 16, 2012)
For the second year in a row, the Washington Square Park Folk Festival will take place for 2 days at the park this coming weekend on September 15th and 16th. I spoke to Eli Smith, … Read more…
Four Gals by the Fountain
The three ladies together are admiring the Arch I believe (correction: one is texting or looking up directions on her cell phone); the lone gal leaning against the (plume-deprived) fountain is perhaps reading a book.
Should Downtown Sixth Avenue's Bluestone be Replaced with "Tinted Concrete?"
On the agenda tonight, Tuesday, September 11th, for Community Board 2’s Traffic and Transportation Committee meeting is the following: “Proposal by Village Alliance for capital replacement of bluestone on Ave. of the Americas from West … Read more…
The Fountain, (Side) Plume-Less Again
For a brief period beginning in late August, the fountain regained its side plumes but, alas, as of sometime last week, the fountain is plume-less again. In case you’re wondering, it seems one source of the … Read more…
Seven or Eight New York City Red-Tailed Hawks Dead Thus Far in 2012 from Secondary Rodenticide Poisoning; Is Rodenticide Returning to Washington Square Park?
In late July, the number of New York City Red-Tailed Hawks dead of secondary rodenticide poisoning numbered six or seven and was receiving red flags of alarm in some quarters. Then, two of Pale Male’s … Read more…