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57 Years This Month Since Traffic Drove Through Washington Square Park Pedestrians & Bikes Only! The streets around the perimeter of Washington Square Park will be closed to traffic this year for what has been … Read more…
If you have been wondering what would happen next, after the Community Board meeting earlier this year where the Washington Square Park Conservancy answered some questions – tho’ not fully (and continued to dodge others), come to … Read more…
In light of the recent court victory preserving dedicated parkland that New York University planned to massively build upon via its mega “NYU 2031” expansion plans — and to which the Bloomberg Administration’s City Council … Read more…
I DO NOT CONSENT To: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York City Police Department (NYPD), the Metropolitan Transit Authority(MTA), U.S. Department of Energy(DOE), U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, New … Read more…
On September 29th, I wrote about how construction on the SouthWest Quadrant/Chess Plaza at Washington Square Park had been stopped for about 3 weeks. 5 weeks passed with no movement or signs of life on … Read more…
Updated 1/25 & 31* Reporters are asking questions about Washington Square Park Redesign: Phase II, but has anything much changed since my update in September 2010? (Re-posted below.) There’s been great progress in the park’s … Read more…
On November 30th, a reader “pattycake” responded to the blog piece, “The Squirrels of Washington Square Park have many fans but Now also a Killer in Their Midst,” with the following comment: so stupid.. im … Read more…
Updated It’s hard to know where to begin to describe last Thursday’s (May 28th) Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at Washington Square Park which marked the “official” ceremony celebrating the reopening of the long-under-construction NW Quadrant and … Read more…
The most interesting thing about Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s re-election campaign – you know, the one made possible by his directing the City Council to overturn voted-in term limits – is watching him implode a bit. … Read more…
The New York Times reports that: “Elected officials, aspiring politicians, public interest groups and average citizens who voted to establish term limits in New York in the 1990s filed a federal lawsuit Monday morning challenging … Read more…
The “Gerson-Quinn Agreement” that NY City Council Member Alan Gerson (Washington Square Park is in his district) and Speaker Christine Quinn (Quinn covers the neighboring Village district) brokered was weak and gained little for the … Read more…
-updated- New York University has dramatically expanded its real estate tentacles and University purple flags throughout New York City over the last seven years under Mayor Bloomberg. Many believe that the University, which holds most … Read more…
Interesting the reports that as Mayor Bloomberg left City Hall yesterday after the vote, he was surrounded, even “chased,” by “protesters.” I would have been interested in witnessing that. I’m fairly certain our billionaire Mayor … Read more…
New York Times is live blogging from the term limits hearing today at City Hall. It’s well done and somewhat entertaining. Apparently, Mayor Bloomberg got 50 of his supporters in there early and it’s unclear … Read more…
It just gets more and more fascinating.. People behind the scenes with knowledge of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg‘s plans to install himself for a third term say he’s willing to spend “as much as $100 … Read more…