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Month: April 2018

Revisiting 1980s Street Performing at Washington Square Park: Interview Philippe Petit, Tony Vera, Charlie Barnett

May 1, 2018April 30, 2018

Culture from other eras inform the park to this day, but is that spirit being increasingly sanitized? The New York Times T Magazine recently celebrated New York City “three extraordinary years” 1981-1983. In light of … Read more…

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Seven Years of Red-Tailed Hawks at Washington Square Park | HawkCam is Live (Updated)

April 27, 2018April 26, 2018

Eggs may begin hatching around May 1st … Is Secondary Rodenticide Poisoning Harming the Hawks? WSP does not use rodenticides, nearby properties do The red-tailed hawks at Washington Square Park first appeared in 2011 with … Read more…

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Fix, Don’t Trash, Your Broken Gadgets This Earth Day | Fixers Collective Meets West Village 4/22

April 19, 2018

The Fixers Collective offers New Yorkers an opportunity to get help fixing gadgets, appliances and electronics that they’ve so wanted to repair but had no idea where to turn. This coming Sunday, April 22nd, for … Read more…

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Washington Square Park’s “Living Statue” Arrested for Performance on Arch

April 16, 2018April 16, 2018

Johan Figueroa-González, Park Performer for Two Years, Fixture at the Arch Now Prohibited from Monument Washington Square Park’s “living statue” and park regular, Ídem Caeli, was arrested on the Arch by the New York City … Read more…

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Visit WSP Blog’s Curated Greenwich Village/Washington Square Park Amazon Page | Support Our Work

April 19, 2018April 14, 2018

As an independent hyperlocal site, Washington Square Park Blog asks for reader and community support to keep going. The content you read here takes a lot of time, work, effort, and research. Ways to support … Read more…

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This Week: 57th Anniversary of the Washington Square Park “Folk Riot”

April 12, 2018April 11, 2018

Why It Remains Important The Folk Riot at Washington Square Park – sometimes referred to as the Beatnik Riot – occurred on Sunday, April 9th, 1961 after the city’s Parks Department suppressed performance at the … Read more…

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Images of Martin Luther King Jr. Projected on Washington Square Arch for 50th Anniversary of His Death

April 3, 2018April 3, 2018
Images of Dr. King projected on the #WashingtonSquareArch

It will mark 50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated tomorrow, April 4th. Last night, the Washington Square Park Arch was transformed to feature striking images of King projected onto its two … Read more…

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NYC Remembers Martin Luther King Jr. With Replay of Final Speech at Washington Square Park Tuesday

April 3, 2018April 2, 2018

50 Years Since King’s “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” Speech in Memphis, Tennessee New York City will play an audio recording of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s final speech before his death at a ceremony … Read more…

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