Washington Square Park

In Real Life

Washington Square Park is located in downtown Manhattan before Greenwich Village. The park is known for being in the middle of the NYU campus. It is probably known even more due to its popularity and how many people attend the park on a daily basis. Many street performers, musicians, dancers, and artists a like congegrate there.

Parks Dept vs. Park Goers

Recently, the Parks Dept. wanted to close down Washington Square Park to remodel it. The park, when originally built, was designed on a strange angle. Some of the cement, including the large fountain and arc within the park, are all at a strange angle or are a bit off center from how they should appear.

The renovations, which would have been purely aesthetic, would have cost thousands of dollars and leave the park closed for many years.

Many of those that attend the park, performers and visitors, were against the repairs that the Parks Dept. had lined up because they thought the strange appearance of the structures within the park gave it a unique personality.

The patrons won the battle over the park and the repairs never came to be, leaving Washington Square Park looking just as strange as it did when it was first built.

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