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The Early Bird Gets the Picture of the Duck in the Fountain
From Summer 2009Morning larks in the city enjoy a rare peace and quiet that night owls frequently miss. Early Saturday morning, while out with the dogs in Washington Square Park, the big dog became obsessed with something in the fountain. So, 'twas a...
A Special Date Night in the Village: The First Couple Dines at Blue Hill
Those of us who gathered along Washington Square West at the intersection of Washington Place early Friday evening made our own fun as we stood patiently waiting for a glimpse of the special guests. After hearing a little earlier the helicopters fly ...
Opening Day at Washington Square Park: Thoughts and Images While Strolling
Around 8 a.m. on May 19, 2009, park workers started pulling down the chain fences surrounding the newly renovated sections of Washington Square Park, including its signature fountain, and early risers in the Village streamed in. Several were out on m...
Weekend Trifecta: A Park, A Bike, and A Dance
For those of us who frequent Washington Square Park, the first phase of the park's redesign, a subject of heated argument, looks like it's drawing to a close. The newly-designed northwest quadrant, along with the massive moving and reconfiguration of...
Follow Your Money: The New York Financial Crisis & Recovery Walk
I think I've reached my bottom when it comes to bad financial news, a personal capitulation if you will, so I've devised a 10,000 step program to aid our road to recovery. Surveying the urban landscape of New York, the financial capital of the world,...
Snow Day: Washington Square Park
From Winter 2009Some days are quiet in Greenwich Village, bespeaking the village origins of this community in lower Manhattan. The early mornings are almost always peaceful here, given over to runners and people walking their dogs, but gradually, the...
The Light in Hopper: The Years on Washington Square North
Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) lived at 3 Washington Square North, in what is commonly called "The Row," in Greenwich Village from 1913 until the day he died in 1967. He was almost 85, and presumably, he saw many changes during the co...
Beating the True Path to Greenwich Village (from Fifth Avenue)
Where there's a will there's a way. When extensive renovations to the fountain area and the northwest quadrant of Washington Square Park commenced last year, people who regularly walked between lower Fifth Avenue and the Village south of the park fou...
Contemporary African Art in Two NYU Galleries
I recommend seeing two exhibitions at NYU galleries, both located on Washington Square East, before they close in early December:The Poetics of ClothAfrican Textiles/Recent ArtGrey Art GalleryThrough December 6, 2008The Poetics of Cloth: African Text...
Henry James' Uneasy Homecoming to Washington Square
Henry James (1843-1916), author of many novels on the college reading list - Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, among them, and great stories such as "The Aspern Papers" and "The Turn of the Screw," was...
