in and around the park, public space, NYC & more
51 Years After Stonewall On June 28th, 1969, the Stonewall Inn riots began after police raided the Stonewall Inn near Washington Square Park; they continued on for six days. Fifty one years later, yesterday, as protesters … Read more…
Last night, NYPD attacked Queer Liberation Protesters Outside the Park It’s the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall Inn Riots and NYPD attacked Queer Liberation March protesters along Washington Square North yesterday. Separate post to follow. … Read more…
Vellonakis Set to Officially Retire in the Fall George Vellonakis, the landscape designer placed in charge of the Bloomberg Administration’s controversial redesign of Washington Square Park, later hired in 2017 to be the park’s publicly … Read more…
Parks and public spaces across New York City have played major roles as sites for ongoing, daily protests related to outrage over the death of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and way too many other men … Read more…
So moving to see the amazing coming together of masses of people mobilizing and speaking out at the park over the last couple weeks and the galvanizing of activists and supporters across the city. Photos … Read more…
So far… Note: More info coming on private conservancy issues … George Floyd Protests Monday, June 1st Top Photo: Alex Steinberg Middle Photo: Nina Antipas Fountain, Tuesday, June 2nd Bottom Photo: Eloise Ro
Washington Square Park private conservancy continues to assert itself to take over more and more turf from the city’s Parks Department – the public entity which actually runs and manages the park and has done … Read more…