in and around the park, public space, NYC & more
Support Washington Square Park Blog’s efforts as we round out the year and look to 2017. There is more to do to protect the park and its independent spirit from those who aim to change … Read more…
A must watch! This video highlights the ebullience of kids sledding and frolicking in the snow on the old Mounds at Washington Square Park in December 2008 before they were remodeled. Set to Karen Carpenter’s … Read more…
Updated 12/27 Private Influences on a Very Public, Not-Privatized Park When Rebecca Ferguson left her position as Washington Square Park administrator in 2012, it took nine months for the city’s Parks Department to fill the … Read more…
NYPD vans – a huge number – lined Washington Square North on both sides of the street on Saturday. A police officer told me that they are there due to the “large number of demonstrations … Read more…
Yesterday’s snow was not heavy and rain came soon after so the park didn’t look quite as majestic as on some other snow days [my favorites of the park in a snowstorm are from March 2013] … Read more…
New York Magazine recently featured “Vintage Photos of the Teens Who Ran Washington Square Park in the 1950s” from a new book by photographer Dave Heath who died earlier this year. Heath had a special … Read more…
The Washington Square Park Arch has been off-limits to the public for some time now. I‘ve wondered how “fragile” it really is inside, which is what the Parks Department says, or if the agency‘s Art … Read more…