Washington Square Park

Peaceful Gnome Clowns Take Manhattan

Suit Seeks Halt in Wash. Square Revamp

Judge Blocks Wash. Sq. Park Plan

Obama's Coming to the Apollo

Clip Job: Stopping Washington Square Roadways

Here's Some Video from the Fall Out Boy/Washington Square Park Fiasco

Week in Review: A Home-Made Midi File Ringtone of Cut Copy's "In Ghost Colours"

New Year's Eve Event Guide

New Year's Eve 2008 Pursuits

Bohemian Rhapsodies

Saturday 8/12

Hemp and Circumstance

Family Day Values Uproot the Weed in Washington Square

Smoke and Jeers

Million Marijuana March Protests NYC's Record-High Pot Arrests

Edifice Wrecked

Villagers file lawsuits against NYU over new student center

Dosa Man Kicks it with Rachael Ray

Villagers file lawsuits against NYU over new student center

Shutter Bugged

New York’s Hidden Cameras Are Watching. One Suspicious Tour Guide Wants to Show You How.

Classical/Opera

New York’s Hidden Cameras Are Watching. One Suspicious Tour Guide Wants to Show You How.

On Message

New York’s Hidden Cameras Are Watching. One Suspicious Tour Guide Wants to Show You How.

Theater

New York’s Hidden Cameras Are Watching. One Suspicious Tour Guide Wants to Show You How.

Merry Mayhem

New York’s Hidden Cameras Are Watching. One Suspicious Tour Guide Wants to Show You How.

The 50th Anniversary Special: An Introduction

New York’s Hidden Cameras Are Watching. One Suspicious Tour Guide Wants to Show You How.

Extreme Makeover

Washington Square Park renovation battle gets personal—and private

Washington Square Park to Get Private Security Force

Looks like the newly renovated Washington Square Park is getting a private security force. The Coalition for a Better Washington Square Park is gathering funds to hire off-duty cops and maintenance workers to patrol the Park by next summer. Conflict is promoted in the press between activist Ron Kub ... More >>

Ricky Powell's Official Guide to Rappin' With The Rickster, His Legendary '90s Public Access TV Show

Sitting on a park bench in Washington Square Park on a Thursday afternoon, with a small silver transistor radio clutched in his left hand and his trusty Minolta AF2 Hi-Matic camera slung around his shoulder, 49-year-old Ricky Powell breaks off from conversation to yell at a gaggle of teenage girls ... More >>

Parks Department to Use Cupcakes to Fend Off Weenie Vendor Competition at the Met

clevercupcakes/FlickrNo end in sight.​Mayor Bloomberg may pay all sorts of lip service to the importance of healthy eating, and his Board of Education may want to keep anything baked by human hands out of the schools, but the city's Parks Department is apparently more than happy to peddle cupc ... More >>

New Washington Square Park Bathrooms Eco- and Hookup-Friendly

BKSK Architects LLP​It's bathroom day in New York City. No, that's not what we mean. But it's some kinda coincidence that on the same day that amNewYork reveals the results of its six-month adventure into the bowels of hell spelunking for the best (and mostly worst) places to relieve yourself ... More >>

North Square Will Now Pack You a Picnic Lunch

Calling all Washington Square Park ants.​Washington Square Park-goers will no longer need to brown-bag it. Not only is the park getting a new cupcake-and-milkshake food truck, but now North Square, still the only restaurant on the square, will pack you a picnic lunch box to enjoy in the sun.

We Experience Every Public Bathroom in New York City, So You Don't Have to

​Here at the Voice, we care about the state of the public spaces where we shit and piss. There are roughly 78 New York City public restrooms in Manhattan, and we want to know how well they're kept up and stocked, which attract things that fly and crawl, the general culture surrounding them, an ... More >>

Vietnam 1969: The Moratorium Movement!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 9, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 52 Plans Set For Viet Moratorium Plans were revealed Friday for massive New York City participation in the nationwide Vietnam Moratorium on October 15 which will seek to "end business as usual" on that da ... More >>

"You-Are-Loved" Glowlight Vigil Tonight in Washington Square Park

​This Sunday, October 3rd, NYU LGBTQA student leaders and Delta Lambda Phi are hosting a glowstick vigil (no candles allowed!) beginning at 9:00 p.m. in lower Manhattan's Washington Square Park. The event is scheduled as a reaction to six recent suicides related to homophobic bullying, includi ... More >>

Free Things in New York City: AIDS Tests, Washington Square Park, Tomorrow

​Tomorrow is World AIDS Day, which is neither a celebration of AIDS nor the day everyone in the world gets AIDS, but a day dedicated to AIDS awareness, which there will never be enough of. Like AIDS tests. Which are going to be given away for free in Washington Square Park tomorrow.

Are Campuses Doing Double Duty as Drug Havens? Plus: Which NYC School Is the Druggiest?

​The New York Post is billing an "exclusive" this week about how Columbia University has systematically failed to report its drug-using student populace to police or prosecutors. The not-so-earth-shattering expose comes on the heels of last week's big frat house drug bust, which led to the ar ... More >>

How Awesome Is This Weather? Pretty Awesome.

We ventured out of our bat-cave to Washington Square Park to see how New York's human people were enjoying this awesome weather (mostly so we could enjoy the weather a bit ourselves). The happiness quotient of NYC has increased a thousandfold. It's like it never snowed at all! It's above 60 degrees ... More >>

Our 10 Best Vegetarian Street Foods

Rebecca MarxMexicue's beet and goat cheese taco.​ While street food is, to many people, still synonymous with street meat, there are plenty of vegetal pearls to be found among the literal swine. You just have to search a little harder, and we have, across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. What ... More >>

'Hitler-Like' Mustache Gave Away Bank Robber

​Djamil Azizi, also known as John Amir, was spotted on a security camera near Washington Square Park by police, who noticed his "Hitler-like mustache" two weeks after he tried to rob a Chelsea bank. He demanded money at the Chase Bank on Eighth Avenue and West 15th Street only to run away with ... More >>

Sorry Kids, No Olive Oil Gelato This Year at the GelOTTO Cart

Lauren ShockeyFind the GelOTTO cart in Washington Square Park​It's Memorial Day Weekend, which means frozen treats season is officially in business. Like every summer, the GelOTTO Cart will be parked in Washington Square Park, selling gelati from Mario Batali's nearby OTTO. But this year, do ... More >>

Colin Huggins, Street Performer, to Push His Piano to Washington Square Park Tomorrow

​Tomorrow at about 9:30 a.m. street musician Colin Huggins will move a Yahama baby grand piano from a Manhattan Mini Storage on Spring Street to Washington Square Park by himself. And if maneuvering a five-foot three-inch piano around city blocks sounds really difficult, Huggins said "it's muc ... More >>

5 Places in NYC To Get Wet and Cool Off

​It's hot. Like sauna-0hot. Like walk-outside-and-you-feel-like-you-can't-breathe hot. Like instantly-break-into-a-sweat hot. The impenetrable heat gave us the desire to return to our childhoods, get into a bathing suit (or just go topless, because we can) and frolic through the sprinklers on ... More >>

Cast In Concrete #1: Meet The Jittery Improv Quartet Sistine Criminals

Cast In Concrete tracks Vijith Assar as he records the musical offerings of New York City's street musicians. ​ Who: Sistine Criminals When: 6/4/11, about 5 p.m. Where: Washington Square Park Quite the debatably fortuitous beginning to this enterprise, getting run over by a mobile mariachi q ... More >>

Where to Get Married in NYC for Free

​To celebrate the official start of gay marriages in New York on July 24, chapels and ministers all over the city will be joining people in holy matrimony for free, minus the cost of a marriage license. And that matrimony is not limited to LGBT couples -- there's at least one officiant offerin ... More >>

Indian Creperie Coming Soon to Bleecker Street

Lauren ShockeyComing soon!​Perhaps capitalizing off the success of Thiru Kumar, a/k/a "the Dosa Man," who peddles his vegan, South Indian rice-and-lentil crepes on the south side of Washington Square Park, a new spot called Indian Creperie is set to open in the upcoming weeks at 190 Bleecker S ... More >>

There Will Be a Giant Lightsaber Battle in Washington Square Park This Month

​On Saturday, September 24, there will be an epic event in Washington Square Park, a night to remember, Jedi vs. Sith, hands aglow with lightsabers, battling to the pain or to whatever one battles to with a lightsaber. The brains behind Lightsaber Battle 2011, Kevin Bracken and Lori Kufner of ... More >>

1,000 People Joined in the Light Saber Battle at Washington Square Park Saturday

Paul Quitoriano​If you found yourself walking through Washington Square Park this past Saturday night, you probably noticed the crowd of people dressed in Jedi robes and brandishing light sabers. The event, as we'd written earlier this month, was actually an organized activity, not just your a ... More >>

'Occupy Fountains' Ride Planned for Today in Midtown

"Occupying" is clearly not confined to Wall Street, having occurred over the weekend in Washington Square Park and, we hear, being planned for Tompkins Square Park this coming Saturday and Sunday. All the while, Occupy Wall Street Protesters are remaining at base camp in Zuccotti Park, where Mayor ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street Eyeing Tompkins Square Park

​Occupy Wall Street has been camping out in the Financial District for over three weeks now. They're starting to spread out, though; this past weekend they held a rally at Washington Square Park and they're reportedly eyeing Tompkins Square Park as a protesting location as well. A picnic is pl ... More >>

A Duel Will Take Place in Washington Square Park Sunday

Not this kind.​This Sunday, from from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., Holley Plaza in Washington Square Park will be the site of an actual duel, hosted by the Martinez Academy of Arms. Along with a demonstration of the older methods of swordsmanship, observers will get facts, stories and anecdotes about th ... More >>

Washington Square: Occupy Wall Street Protestors Forswear Baked Goods

​Echoing and denying Marie Antoinette's admonition to "Let them eat cake," OWS took the protest to Washington Square Park Saturday afternoon, complete with call-and-response slogans and plenty of homemade signs, often humorous.

Arrests Made at Occupy Wall Street Protest of Citibank [VIDEO]

​About 20 people were arrested this afternoon after entering a Citibank near Washington Square Park. The New York Observer reports that about 20 demonstrators entered the bank on LaGuardia Pl., some with the intention of closing their accounts. Once inside, security is said to have asked them ... More >>

When Can We Expect 'Occupy Washington Square Park'?

Rosie Gray A "temperature check" during last night's Washington Square Park GA.​Last night, representatives of Occupy Wall Street facilitated a General Assembly in Washington Square Park. It was a smaller crowd than usual, never more than 150 people or so, but the topic at hand could prove imp ... More >>

Washington Square Park Musicians Share Their Take on Occupy WSP

Rebecca NathansonSean Daly playing his guitar​Much has been written about the Financial District community's reaction to Occupy Wall Street's continuing occupation of Zuccotti Park, and now that a splinter group from the movement has spread to Washington Square Park, its presence is being felt ... More >>