in and around the park, public space, NYC & more
Updated 12:31 p.m. Washington Square Park Needs You. STOP the further privatization of Washington Square Park. SAVE THE DATE: Wednesday, February 5th, 2014 * 6:30 p.m. Community Board 2 Parks Committee Meeting with Washington Square … Read more…
New! This Downloadable Excel Document traces the Washington Square Park Conservancy Budget E-Mail Trail and Raises Additional Questions: Washington Square Park Conservancy Budget Email Trail ______________________________________________________________________ This is Part VII in a series, WSP Private … Read more…
What do you do when the City Council passes a law that applies to a city agency and then that city agency ignores it and the Council does not enforce it? Such is the case … Read more…
Updated! New! Above photo of the park looking southwest by Samantha Yanks. Photo: Jordan Lage via Twitter, New York Scene on the Streets Blog I’ll look to add more photos as the day goes on … Read more…
Songbyrd, a new television series, filmed at Washington Square Park yesterday with actress Rumer Willis (Demi Moore & Bruce Willis’s daughter) and the cast and crew captured on the Fountain Plaza. The show is set to … Read more…
Updated January 16th, 7:49 a.m. Bill de Blasio wrote a letter to Manhattan Parks Commissioner Bill Castro citing “concerns” from his constituents over “insufficient transparency [and] community involvement” in relation to a conservancy at Washington Square … Read more…
Washington Square Park Blog has partnered with Local Ecology for this very cool project called Washington Square Park Ecology Project. Washington Square Park Ecology Project will consist of a mobile map that users can use to … Read more…
MulchFest sign on the barricade as seen within the Arch View Corridor: I missed MulchFest Sunday. It ended at 2 p.m. (It also happened on Saturday). I thought it went later, but, as happened last … Read more…
Updated New York City Parks Commissioner Veronica White mysteriously and quietly departed without any fanfare at the end of 2013. During her brief one and a half years tenure in the position, she didn’t really … Read more…
This Week’s New York Press/Our Town Downtown: Fighting for the Soul of Washington Square Park January 8, 2013 Some fear the possibility of the famous park becoming privatized Fans of one of the city’s most iconic parks … Read more…
Hot dogs are on everyone’s radar in the Village, Eater broke the news yesterday about Gray’s Papaya on West 8th Street and Sixth Avenue closing. They followed up on the story today: PapayaGate ! via Eater: A … Read more…
On the heels of the “hot dog” vendor victory, the farewell to Mike Bloomberg, and a New Year with a New Mayor, news rolled in late yesterday that State Supreme Court Justice Donna Mills in … Read more…
FACEBOOK Washington Square Park Blog is now on Facebook. I resisted this for a long time but here we are! TWITTER Come Tweet with @wspblog! Click here to follow @wspblog on Twitter. SUBSCRIBE TO WASHINGTON … Read more…
I’ve added some new documents to the Documents page relating to Washington Square Park Conservancy which highlight additional information never revealed to the public, and “concerns” Bill de Blasio had as Public Advocate about “transparency and community … Read more…
Artist Guy C. Wiggins portrayed snowy Washington Square in numerous paintings. I love the portrait of the elegant lady in red with the dog, Stroll in Washington Square, which was sold at Sotheby’s in 2001 … Read more…