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WSP Private Conservancy Watch: Separate Community Board Public Meeting - When? | What You Can Do

WSP Private Conservancy Watch: Separate Community Board Public Meeting – When? | What You Can Do

May 7, 2013

After last week’s Community Board 2 Parks Committee meeting, I posted a report back on the performance issue (one of the topics of discussion) at Washington Square Park. Part II with latest updates on the park is next. But, as I wrote previously, the fact remains that the Parks Department is stalling a discussion of a private Conservancy [...]

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Amidst Confusion, Community and Performers to City's Parks Department: Commit in Writing -- No "Performance Crackdown" at Washington Square, and all NYC Parks

Amidst Confusion, Community and Performers to City’s Parks Department: Commit in Writing — No “Performance Crackdown” at Washington Square, and all NYC Parks

May 2, 2013

Manhattan Borough Parks Commissioner Bill Castro came before the Parks Committee of Community Board 2 last night at downtown’s Grace Church Tuttle Hall to address the many conflicting things being reported about whether performers at Washington Square Park specifically, but other parks generally, will begin (again) being targeted and ticketed for performing beginning May 8th. [...]

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Parks Department Stalling Public Discussion of Private Conservancy at Washington Square Park | Community Board 2 Parks Committee Meets Wed. May 1st

Parks Department Stalling Public Discussion of Private Conservancy at Washington Square Park | Community Board 2 Parks Committee Meets Wed. May 1st

April 30, 2013

Last Wednesday, April 24th, a special notice came from Community Board 2 Chair David Gruber outlining the agenda for the next meeting of the Parks/Waterfront Committee on Wednesday, May 1st, stating topics of discussion including: Washington Square Park: Introduction to the new Administrator, Sarah Nielson, for discussion of park-related projects and issues, including status of [...]

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NY Times Says "New York Parks in Less Affluent Areas Lack Big Gifts" but Doesn't Mention Other Lack -- Lack of Funds From City Budget

NY Times Says “New York Parks in Less Affluent Areas Lack Big Gifts” but Doesn’t Mention Other Lack — Lack of Funds From City Budget

February 18, 2013

Updated 2/19, 9:25 a.m. — Yesterday’s New York Times featured an article by Lisa Foderaro titled: New York Parks in Less Affluent Areas Lack Big Gifts. A key thing missing from the piece was any analysis or historical perspective of the allocation of funds from the city’s budget for our public parks and spaces. The piece seems to [...]

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Jackson Square Park, Then & Now (Privatization)

Jackson Square Park, Then & Now (Privatization)

January 23, 2013

Jackson Square Park, in the West Village off 8th Avenue, used to be a really quiet, sleepy park that not too many people went into and mostly homeless or people down on their luck, so to speak, utilized. I wasn’t a ‘park goer’ at the time I lived near by but the park has been refashioned [...]

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In The News: NYC Parks Department - Comptroller's Audit Shows Pattern of Construction Delays & Ballooning Costs, Union Square Restaurant Halted by Judge

In The News: NYC Parks Department – Comptroller’s Audit Shows Pattern of Construction Delays & Ballooning Costs, Union Square Restaurant Halted by Judge

January 14, 2013

Washington Square Park has been all too familiar with construction delays and escalation of costs over the last five years of redesign construction. Well, surprise, this problem is not limited to WSP, as NYC Comptroller John C. Liu reports via an audit of the city’s Parks Department released Friday: The Parks Department is not carrying [...]

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No Lighting Persists in Washington Square Dog Run At Night Due to Phase III Construction with No Resolution in Sight

No Lighting Persists in Washington Square Dog Run At Night Due to Phase III Construction with No Resolution in Sight

January 9, 2013

After writing about the lack of lighting at night in the Dog Run last week which I brought up at the Community Board 2 meeting finally addressing (somewhat) Washington Square Park, I, at last, got to the Dog Run at night. Now, my camera, which is decent, does not have the strongest flash so this is [...]

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Happy New Year | Community Board 2 Parks Committee Meets to Discuss WSP Tonite, January 2nd, After 20 Month Hiatus

Happy New Year | Community Board 2 Parks Committee Meets to Discuss WSP Tonite, January 2nd, After 20 Month Hiatus

January 2, 2013

Happy New Year! I’m pleased to report that, after a 20 month lapse, there will be a meeting tonight, Wednesday, January 2nd, of Community Board 2′s Parks Committee to discuss Washington Square Park’s construction status, among other parks. The last meeting where WSP was discussed was in April of 2011. Of note, that last meeting [...]

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Who is in charge? Except for the Now Lit Up Arch, Lights at WSP Remain Off Well Past Sundown (Updated)

Who is in charge? Except for the Now Lit Up Arch, Lights at WSP Remain Off Well Past Sundown (Updated)

November 30, 2012

Updated – So, I reported on Sunday about the fact that Washington Square Park, landmark New York City park, is enveloped in darkness once the sun goes down. I honestly did not think it would last too much longer but, as of last night(Thursday), the thread of darkness continued throughout the almost 10 acre public [...]

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Lights Off WSP at Dark. Hurricane Sandy? No, Just Recent Nights Washington Square

Lights Off WSP at Dark. Hurricane Sandy? No, Just Recent Nights Washington Square

November 25, 2012

I received an email from someone earlier in the week who was at the Park, it was 5:10 p.m., and this person wrote that none of the lights were on, not even on the Arch. I wasn’t able to check it out myself then, and, at the time, I thought perhaps it was a mix [...]

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