in and around the park, public space, NYC & more
“Victory for Parks” Party and Rally will be held on Saturday, March 15th at 1 p.m. at LaGuardia Park, LaGuardia Place between West 3rd and Bleecker Streets at the Fiorello LaGuardia statue. Everyone is invited … Read more…
Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood published a wonderful story by Jacob Margolies about his friend “Monte” and Washington Square Park in grittier days: I have a friend. For the purposes of this story, let’s call him Monte. When … Read more…
Hot dogs are on everyone’s radar in the Village, Eater broke the news yesterday about Gray’s Papaya on West 8th Street and Sixth Avenue closing. They followed up on the story today: PapayaGate ! via Eater: A … Read more…
Uncle Sam’s Army-Navy Store is sort of this unexpected store on West 8th Street. And as the strip’s ‘powers that be’ (the local “BID” – business improvement district – and landlords) strive for more “pretty” … Read more…
Updated After yesterday’s post, What Does it Take for a Business to Survive in Today’s Greenwich Village?, I got a note this morning from a reader, Tim, who wrote re: “B&N Spot 8th and 6th”: … Read more…
Updated — Inside the basement level space of Growler Station on West 8th Street a computer remains on, brightly lit, waiting for somebody to return to start serving its craft beers again. On the door … Read more…
Via amNewYork: 83rd Annual Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit Let your art flag fly and peruse the work of fine artists and craft artisans from around the city, country and world this weekend at the … Read more…
Village resident Amy Nicholson has directed her first film, “Zipper: Coney Island’s Last Wild Ride,” which chronicles the dramatic changes over the Bloomberg years of the famed amusement park sitting at the bottom of Brooklyn. … Read more…
It’s typically not a good sign when a restaurant goes under renovations. And Greenwich Village mainstay, Dojo Restaurant, was previously on ‘Death Watch,’ but signs posted on the West 4th Street space earlier today make the situation … Read more…
The plans for the recent redesign of Washington Square Park were a tad obsessed with all things being symmetrical. Yet, as we know, it wasn’t always this way. This hand-drawn map above was created by … Read more…
So this seems to be the menu from the later incarnation of restaurant Shakespeare’s at 176 MacDougal Street (more recently home to Hong Wah Laundromat, which, after a mysterious fire, never reopened). Still, it’s fun to see … Read more…
The next stage in the fight to stop New York University’s massive Village expansion plan — “NYU 2031” — will take place in New York State Supreme Court next Thursday, July 18th at 10:30 a.m. … Read more…
It seems like it happened quietly but Portland’s Stumptown Coffee’s highly anticipated second NYC location on West 8th Street at MacDougal is now open! The location at 30 West 8th Street was formerly home to … Read more…
This is from outside the location of the former Barnes & Noble at 8th Street and 6th Avenue yesterday, site of a murder and what police are calling a “hate crime” that occurred in the … Read more…
Upcoming talk next Tuesday, May 21st with author John Strausbaugh, who wrote the recent book, THE VILLAGE: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, and a chance for Washington Sq Park Blog readers to … Read more…