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For the seven years of the park’s redesign, Washington Square Park Blog covered all aspects of that status, with continual updates on each of the phases (4), the costs, the delays, the controversies. Over the … Read more…
Tonight, Thursday August 30th, the New York City Parks Department will be presenting director Ingmar Bergman’s award-winning 1978 film, Autumn Sonata, starring Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullman. The screening will begin around 8 p.m. at … Read more…
Remember those skeletons and bones they dug up in the park? The city has decided to acknowledge the bodies that lie beneath Washington Square Park and reinter “human remains” dug up during park construction over … Read more…
Marlon Brandon arrived in Greenwich Village in 1943 and stayed with his sister who lived near Patchin Place. In his 1994 autobiography, the actor wrote about this experience singling out the “ecstasy of sleeping on … Read more…
Prime Greenwich Village; A Block from Washington Square Park I heard awhile back that the stores on the Southwest side of West 8th at MacDougal were being shuttered because the building was sold, set to … Read more…
via me.me Well, this would be something to see! Washington Square Park closes officially at 12 midnight. The NYPD come around at some point and encourage people to leave, and secure the steel barricades … Read more…
ICYMI, Harpers in its July issue featured an article, The Death of a Once Great City: The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence. It is definitely worth reading, touches upon the … Read more…
NYPD Suspect “Medical Episode,” “Natural Causes,” She was Taken to Lenox Hill Greenwich Village New York Daily News: Woman Found Unconscious in Washington Square Park Dies An unconscious woman was found on a bench in … Read more…
Early morning reflections, the Fountain, the Arch, the Empire State Building! Washington Square Park. Photo: Christine Rucci
