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Day: January 23, 2013

Jackson Square Park, Then & Now (Privatization)

February 5, 2013January 23, 2013

Jackson Square Park, in the West Village off 8th Avenue, used to be a really quiet, sleepy park that not too many people went into and mostly homeless or people down on their luck, so to … Read more…

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