Wandering, Episode 1: Washington Square Park

One of the things that makes life in the concrete jungle bearable are the parks. My personal favorite is Riverside Park, which runs down the west side along the Hudson.

Washington Square Park is right on the east edge of the West Village, next to NYU. It is well known for the arch and for attracting a more electic crowd than some of the other parks. It is one of the places that you are guaranteed to find street performers and usually a hippie petition signing or demonstration of some kind.

I don't get down to the Village often, but that's what wanderings are for...

A suprising amount of green...


They finally finished construction and opened the fountain again...

Case in point... The kids sitting in the bottom left of the picture had a sign up that said, "Come sit with us!"... And the crowd gathered under the arch are watching a barber shop quartet...