…to life every summer in Tompkins Square Park. The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival has been held annually since 1993, close to Parker’s August 29 birthday. This year’s free concert at…
Read More…lilies were transplanted from Washington Square Park Bert has personally recycled plants and rocks from other NYC parks that were destined for the dumpster, and brought them to Sir Winston…
Read MoreThe original temporary triumphal arch on 5th Avenue north of Washington Square Park. With Presidents’ Day, celebrating George Washington’s birthday (among other things) just around the corner, we thought we…
Read More…the naming of Washington Street, Washington Square Park, and a large Washington statue in Union Square Park. (Washington Square Park, previously a potter’s field, was renamed the Washington Square Parade…
Read More…Square Park, the Tompkins Square park evergreen is a live tree that lives in the park year-round. The spruce was planted in 1992, as part of a larger renovation of…
Read More…creativity of Greenwich Village. The park is today maintained by the Abingdon Square Alliance, a community group that works in cooperation with the Department of Parks & Recreation. The park…
Read More…history. This milk booth was installed in Tompkins Square Park in 1909. Photo courtesy of the New York City Parks Photo Archive. According to Parks Department Annual Reports—many of which…
Read More…before eventually becoming today’s Washington Square Park. Washington Square Park and Arch (with Washington Place theoretically running through the center of it) On the hundredth anniversary of Washington’s swearing in…
Read More…the southern end of the Square and has become the beacon to the park. Ornamental plantings were placed throughout the park, making the square a destination for West Villagers and…
Read MoreA children’s garden opened in Tompkins Square Park in 1934. Photo courtesy of the New York City Parks Photo Archive. For the next two Sundays, GVSHP is teaming up with…
Read MoreThe Tompkins Square Park bandshell, constructed in 1966, was the center of cultural and political movements in the East Village during the tumultuous decades of the late 20th century. From…
Read MoreOver the years, Off the Grid has featured many posts about Tompkins Square Park, including The Young Lords Start in Tompkins Square Park, The Tompkins Square Park Riots of 1988,…
Read MoreFashion in Washington Square Park (looking toward the park’s southeast corner) — during the 1940s and 1950s, the park still had a road running through the middle of it (Fifth…
Read More…Ca. 1930s East River Park is the largest park in Manhattan south of Central Park, and must have been a profound and welcome change for the surrounding residents. I could…
Read More…Washington Square Park Committee has helped hold back the steamrollers in Washington Square Park for six years. BUT an all out effort must be made now to stop Mr. Moses…
Read MoreJackson Square Park. Photo courtesy of NYC Parks. This post is part of a series about Village blocks that correspond to calendar dates. Once again, another August date corresponds with…
Read More…to as Washington At War and Washington At Peace, were not placed on the arch until 1916 and 1918. Above Washington At Peace, one finds a representation of an open…
Read More…and visitors alike, the charming Washington Mews sits just one block north of Washington Square Park. There are a few street names in New York with the word “mews” attached;…
Read More…in not just the spiritual but the real world realm in a way that made history. In June of 1978, the the Washington Square United Methodist Church’s Reverend, Paul Abels,…
Read More…hippy. The New York Times, June 3, 1967 The scene at Tompkins Square Park on Memorial Day, 1967. Image via lorenbliss The scene at Tompkins Square Park on Memorial Day, 1967. Image…
Read MoreUnion Square is known today as a site of public gathering and for expressions of discontent. This is built upon Union Square’s rich, multi-layered history as a public space in…
Read More…While neighboring areas like the Charlton-King-Vandam and Greenwich Village Historic Districts are relatively protected by their landmarked status, the unprotected South Village – the area south of Washington Square Park…
Read More…and wading pool. Tompkins Square Park, provided courtesy of NYC Parks First Park (Located on the corner of East 1st Street and 1st Avenue) This park is named for its…
Read More…finding that the complex known as Washington Square Village was eligible for inclusion in the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places. In this evaluation, SHPO noted that Washington…
Read More…Christopher Park. The park became a center of civic life in the community. In 1935, a statue of Civil War General Phillip H. Sheridan was placed in the park. A…
Read More…the form of protest and riots in Tompkins Square Park in the East Village. These protests reflected somewhat the shifting nature of the park and the neighborhood at the time….
Read More…and so on,” and was supported in his efforts to restrict access to the park by the Committee to Preserve the Dignity and Beauty of Washington Square Park and the…
Read More…can be traced back to historical figures as esteemed as George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jacob Astor, but it’s just as deeply connected to Italian immigrants and…
Read MoreNYU’s massive, out-of-scale plan to construct 2 million square feet of new buildings within the Washington Square Village and Silver Towers superblocks is touted by the University as being desperately…
Read More…Washington Square and its amazing female population account for much of that vitality. Throughout the years, Washington Square’s environs have seen an unparalleled array of women—working class, gentry, radical, literary,…
Read MoreSasaki Garden in Washington Square Village This 1.5 acre garden at Washington Square Village was completed in 1959 as an integral part of that modernist apartment complex, now owned by…
Read MoreRadical, Notorious Women of Washington Square Walking Tour Greenwich Village was home to many political, creative, and intellectual movements in New York’s history, and the residences around Washington Square, especially…
Read MoreThe Young Lords announced the founding of their New York Chapter in Tompkins Square Park on July 26, 1969. The Puerto Rican nationalist group started as a turf gang in…
Read MoreTompkins Square Park: From Bouwerie to Greenmarket A pop-up exhibit Join the East Village Parks Conservancy, GrowNYC, and Village Preservation as we explore the history of Tompkins Square Park in…
Read MoreTompkins Square Park: From Bouwerie to Greenmarket – A pop-up exhibit Join the East Village Parks Conservancy, GrowNYC and Village Preservation as we explore the history of Tompkins Square Park…
Read More…after George Washington on July 4, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Read more about Washington Square Park’s history here. Washington Square Park Labor Day Parade, 1912….
Read More…the history of community migration in and around the Village and the factors that lead to the establishment of these different sites in the area. Washington Square Park Washington Square…
Read More…as Bobby Fischer at a Washington Square Park Chess Table in the 1993 film “Searching for Bobby Fischer” Chess games in Union Square Park Because of construction in Washington Square…
Read More…treat, too. And of course we have Washington Square Park, home of the arch, the fountain, the folk music riots, and so much more. Right now the park is so…
Read MoreCrossing Paths in Washington Square Theater for the New City invites Village Preservation members to see the new play at a special rate If you are a Village Preservation Member…
Read MoreThe Immigrant, Radical, Notorious Women of Washington Square Walking tour, led by Joyce Gold In few other places on earth have so many notable women lived and achieved. For the…
Read MoreLeft Bank New York, Artists Off Washington Square 1890s to 1920: A lecture with Virgina Budny After training in Europe, some of America’s most famous painters and sculptors transformed stables…
Read MoreFarmers Markets from Gansevoort to Union Square to Abingdon Square An evening with Greenmarket founder Barry Benepe In 1976, planner and architect Barry Benepe cofounded the Greenmarket program in New…
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…Arch, entitled Dignity and Nobility. People were dropping to their knees in prayer and crying in Washington Square Park and lower 5th Avenue, which is when she put her camera…
Posted September 8, 2021
Read More…January 1776, Washington dispatched General Charles Lee to survey the city and plan its defenses. George Washington accepting command of the Continental Army surrounded by members of the Continental Congress, lithograph by…
Read More…living room. Washington Square Park, ca. late 1950s, New-York Historical Society The goal of the group was simple: to protect and preserve Washington Square Park, considered one of the most…
Read MoreChristopher Park sign. Photo courtesy of the Christopher Park Alliance. Christopher Park has come a long way; beginning its life as a condemned parcel of land on April 5, 1837,…
Read MoreThe Immigrant, Radical, Notorious Women of Washington Square A lecture by Joyce Gold – 3 / 19 Home to many of the political, creative, and intellectual movements in New York’s…
Read MoreAPPROVED 10/29/2019 CB2 hearing: 09/12/2019 – laid over CB2 hearing: 10/17/2019 LPC hearing: 10/29/2019 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Washington Square West and Fifth Avenue —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1)…
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Much if this area south of Washington Square was landmarked in 2013 and 2016 as part of the South Village and Sullivan Thompson Historic Districts proposed and fought for by…
Posted April 12, 2023
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Stephen Crane’s masterpiece “The Red Badge of Courage” (published October 4, 1895) was written while Crane lodged at this house built ca. 1840 at 61 Washington Square South. It was…
Posted June 2, 2020
Read MoreThe Immigrant, Radical & Notorious Women of Washington Square: An Illustrated Lecture with Joyce Gold…
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As documented by the Historic Districts Council: “The Laing Stores (1848-49), also known as the Bogardus Building, was initially located at the northwest corner of Washington and Murray Streets, an…
Posted April 5, 2021
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As documented by the Historic Districts Council: “The Laing Stores (1848-49), also known as the Bogardus Building, was initially located at the northwest corner of Washington and Murray Streets, an…
Posted April 5, 2021
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As documented by the Historic Districts Council: “The Laing Stores (1848-49), also known as the Bogardus Building, was initially located at the northwest corner of Washington and Murray Streets, an…
Posted April 5, 2021
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As documented by the Historic Districts Council: “The Laing Stores (1848-49), also known as the Bogardus Building, was initially located at the northwest corner of Washington and Murray Streets, an…
Posted April 5, 2021
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As documented by the Historic Districts Council: “The Laing Stores (1848-49), also known as the Bogardus Building, was initially located at the northwest corner of Washington and Murray Streets, an…
Posted April 5, 2021
Read More…park has been based. The Hudson River Park, with piers from which air rights can now be sold highlighted. No sale of air rights from the park was ever allowed…
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Greenwich Village resident Marisa Palmisano watched the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center burn and collapse from her neighborhood. She captured these two images in Union Square in the…
Posted September 8, 2021
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For more information on the application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission associated with this image, click here….
Posted June 2, 2020
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Professional photographer Robert A. Ripps took these images of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and of Ground Zero and its surroundings in the days and weeks following…
Posted September 8, 2021
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Professional photographer Robert A. Ripps took these images of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and of Ground Zero and its surroundings in the days and weeks following…
Posted September 8, 2021
Read More…a four lane expressway going through Washington Square Park, and new housing developments on the other side of the park, as part of an urban renewal plan. After the planning…
Read More…through the park. Thanks to Lyons and JEC’s efforts, Washington Square Park remains automobile-free today. Read more about Edith Lyons, her preservationist strategies against Moses and the legacy of JEC…
Read More…and the Works Progress Administration. In the 1950s and ’60s the park expanded again, absorbing Willett and Sheriff Streets into the park. After the park fell into disrepair following the…
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Professional photographer Robert A. Ripps took these images of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and of Ground Zero and its surroundings in the days and weeks following…
Posted September 8, 2021
Read More…dedicated to the memorial. Though the Parks Department owns the park, it is not responsible for its maintenance. Because the memorial and park (tentatively called “St. Vincent’s Hospital Park” by…
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3/18/2014 LPC hearing. For more information about this application, click here….
Posted June 2, 2020
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