Skip to content
  • About
    • Blog in the News
    • Tales of Washington Square Park!
  • NYC’s Redesign of WSP
  • NYC Blogs
  • Donate to WSP Blog
  • Contact
    • Permits
  • Events

in and around the park, public space, NYC & more

Washington Square Park Blog
  • Home
  • Happening at WSP
    • History WSP Redesign
    • History of Park
  • Greenwich Village
    • Purchase Curated Greenwich Village products via Amazon, support WSP Blog
  • Impacts: Private Conservancies, City Parks
    • Privatization of Public Space
  • WSP Conservancy Timeline
    • Documentation: Concealed by Washington Square Park Private Conservancy Founders

Month: October 2024

Skeletons of Washington Square Park

October 31, 2024

It’s That Time of Year Again 20,000 Bodies are Buried Beneath this Greenwich Village Park This time of year seems to rile up and unearth the dead bodies beneath Washington Square Park. Up to 20,000 … Read more…

Leave a comment

Fall Washington Square: Scenes from the Park

October 31, 2024

Two October days: Fountain back on amidst the colorful foliage. Photos: Cathryn

Leave a comment

Parks Department Evicts Artists from Washington Square Park Fountain Plaza | Agency Denies Change in Policy

October 25, 2024October 25, 2024

Artist Crackdown at Washington Square Park Resumes NYC Parks Department Insists “there has been no crackdown in enforcement or change in our policy” Late last month, artists who display their art at Washington Square Park’s … Read more…

2 Comments

Pigeons Take a Break, Drinking Water in the Washington Square Fountain While Off (Video)

October 23, 2024October 23, 2024

Earlier this month, the Washington Square fountain off that afternoon, the park pigeons took advantage to relax and take a sip of water.

Leave a comment
Your support of independent media and advocacy matters. Donate to Washington Square Park Blog today:

Subscribe to Washington Square Park Blog!

* indicates required
/* real people should not fill this in and expect good things – do not remove this or risk form bot signups */

Intuit Mailchimp

Recent Comments

  • Daniele on More on 176 MacDougal & Shakespeare’s Restaurant of Yore – Part I
  • Jonathan K. on More on 176 MacDougal & Shakespeare’s Restaurant of Yore – Part I
  • Gary on Mr. William Shakespeares Menu, 176 MacDougal Street (Circa 1987)
  • Judith Lustgarten on NY City Council Public Hearing on Animal Rescue, Community Cats, ACC System Overwhelmed Fri. Sept. 13
  • Guillermo Calvo Mahé on More on 176 MacDougal & Shakespeare’s Restaurant of Yore – Part I
  • cathryn on Pre-Babbo, Remembering The Coach House Restaurant on Waverly, and How Babbo Came to Be
  • Raquel on Pre-Babbo, Remembering The Coach House Restaurant on Waverly, and How Babbo Came to Be
  • cathryn on Spotlight: Meet Allegra, C.O. Bigelow's, Famous Greenwich Village Apothecary, Cat

Events at the Park

Summer Classes/Events at Washington Square

Like WSP Blog on Facebook:

Like WSP Blog on Facebook:

Greenwich Village/Washington Square Curated Amazon Page

You can support WSP Blog this way! Click here to see this great curated list!

New Ebook!

Washington Square Park ebook - Tales of Washington Square Park

Key Posts over the Years


Exitus Acta Probat: The Washington Square Arch

Phase I Opens! May 2009

NYC's Redesign Plans for Washington Square Park

Washington Square 6 A.M. Fall 2011

NBC News Reports on This Blog's Report of Trees Repeatedly Dying Around the Fountain

Actually, Mr. Vellonakis, the Washington Square Fountain is Already Aligned

The Shell Game: On NYU 2031 Expansion Plan

New Happenings On West 8th Street

Neighborhood Spotlight: Think Coffee on Mercer Street

Categories

For my Activist Friends

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

Archives

October 2024
M T W T F S S
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031  
« Sep   Nov »
Series on misrepresentations and evasions by Parks Department & WSP Conservancy to push this private entity through: Private Conservancy Watch This organization does not run or manage the park.

Subscribe to Washington Square Park Blog!

* indicates required

/* real people should not fill this in and expect good things – do not remove this or risk form bot signups */

Intuit Mailchimp

My Other Sites

Personal Site

Book Site

Cathryn at HuffPost
© 2025 Washington Square Park Blog • Built with GeneratePress