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Month: May 2017

Washington Square Music Festival 59th Season Tuesdays in June, First Concert June 6

May 31, 2017May 30, 2017

The Washington Square Music Festival has become renowned for the concerts produced at its namesake park for 59 years this season. It is hard to imagine what the park looked like in those early years. … Read more…

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Is Fort Greene Park at Risk of Being Washington ‘Squared’ With Proposed Redesign?

May 26, 2017May 26, 2017
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Updated 5:49 p.m.Why do I still think of NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver as ‘new’? He has held the position for three years now hired by Mayor Bill de Blasio. Previous Bloomberg Administration Parks Commissioner … Read more…

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Your Support of Washington Square Park Blog Matters More Than Ever

May 23, 2017May 23, 2017

Washington Square Park Blog began over nine years ago with the intention of chronicling the redesign of Washington Square Park. Although the contentious redesign of the park and its construction is mostly complete (the sidewalk … Read more…

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Free French Films on The Green? Mais oui! Two Fridays this June Washington Square Park

May 22, 2017

What you’ve been waiting for … the annual free French Films on the Green arrive at Washington Square Park for two Fridays: June 9th and 16th. ‘Green,’ of course, being at the park with the … Read more…

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Park Re-designer George Vellonakis Appointed New Washington Square Administrator

May 16, 2017May 15, 2017

Updated 5/16 10:50 a.m. – Six months, 22 applicants, four interviewees, one outcome: After an (arguably) extensive “search,” George Vellonakis, the landscape designer responsible for the 2007-2014+ redesign of Washington Square Park, has been chosen … Read more…

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Washington Square Park Flash Flooding: Redesign Fail?

May 11, 2017May 11, 2017

Washington Square Park has experienced extreme flooding repeatedly when it rains of paths leading to the Fountain Plaza shortly after its Redesign by the Bloomberg Administration. It is impossible to walk along the pathways east … Read more…

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Seen at the Park: As I was Saying…

May 8, 2017

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New Date! Jane’s Walk NYC-Washington Square Park: Flora, Fauna & Folk Riots | Sunday, May 7 w/ WSP Blog & WSP Eco-Projects

May 7, 2017May 6, 2017

Come honor Jane Jacobs in the place that was so special to her: Washington Square Park. Join WSP Eco-Projects and Washington Square Park Blog on a special Jane’s Walk (new date after torrential rain of … Read more…

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Realize that little things lead to bigger things ... And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don't grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. Who knows where some good little thing that you've done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of. ~ Pete Seeger

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