in and around the park, public space, NYC & more
Updated April 1st, 9:13 a.m. It appears three of the cats have been found! Info at end. (ed. note: now 4!) Kathleen Blomberg has lived at 125 Second Avenue for twenty one years, most recently … Read more…
Still so many questions* about the Washington Square Park private conservancy, the way it was formed, the information that was intentionally withheld from the public, and what the plans are going forward for the so-called (self-dubbed) … Read more…
Updated 6:27 p.m. Plight of Animals in East Village Buildings Unreported in Media Accounts of Aftermath of Explosion The East Village explosion that occurred Thursday afternoon (March 26) destroyed three buildings, countless homes, businesses, possessions, … Read more…
Environmental advocacy groups, Beyond Pesticides and the No Spray Coalition are calling for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to “stop the use of the country’s most popular … Read more…
Meet Larry, Ex-Con “Birdman” of Washington Square, via a series called “No Your City” at Break.com. Larry has an intense story, for sure. He has loads of personality and flocks of friends, feathered and humans … Read more…
Artist William Glackens lived from 1870 to 1938 and, for the period between 1908 and 1914, he painted more than twenty portraits of Washington Square Park, including this one. He had a studio across the … Read more…
Did you ever go to an Automat? The last one in NYC closed at 42nd Street and Third Avenue in 1991 but, from 1912 through the 1950s, the Automats were all the rage throughout the … Read more…
In a recent interview, musician and Greenwich Village resident Steve Earle said that he is working on a musical about… Washington Square Park. The material is based on his 2007 album, Washington Square Serenade. (You … Read more…
From Brick Underground, the 2015 version of their list of NYC’s “Best” Neighborhood Blogs. It was sweet to be on the list in 2014 and now this year, alongside so many other great blogs with so … Read more…
Was this the last snow of winter 2015? Likely one of the last of the season. Here are some wintry shots of Washington Square Park in what was one of the nicest snowfalls this winter. … Read more…
I mean, really, why not? At least it’s different. A couple asked for a wedding cake of the Arch and this is it! The wedding took place in Austin, Texas but apparently the groom had proposed … Read more…
It has built to such a point … the endless closing of every other neighborhood business… that people can’t stop talking about it. But the time has more than come to DO something about it. … Read more…