I was recently down in the Alphabet City area and wandered through Tompkins Square Park. While there, I saw a protest in progress at the southern part of the park. The protest seemed centered around a bunch of mailing boxes with slogans. Forgive me, but I couldn’t figure it out. Some of the slogans were [...]
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Tompkins Square Park Protest
April 29, 2008Union Square After the Snowfall
February 24, 2008Friday’s snowfall affected Union Square on Saturday, at least to some extent. On weekends, even in the dead of winter, there’s always something going on there. But when I walked through there on Saturday, I got the definite feeling that very little was happening. Just wet and slushy. There was just the tiniest hint of [...]
Union Square Dog Run
February 22, 2008I recently posted on the Tompkins Square Park dog run and how it was considered one of the top dog runs around. I made the comment that I’ve never seen a dog run with any grass in it and decided I’d go ahead and post on the one dog run that I see on a [...]
Interviewer Contortions at Obama Table in Union Square
January 8, 2008As it is the day of the New Hampshire primary, I thought I’d do my little bit of election posting regarding something I watched in Union Square on Sunday. I haven’t seen any of the presidential ads yet, probably because NYC isn’t on their radar yet or maybe because they think that it’s a gimmee for [...]
CBS Interactive Art at Union Square
January 5, 2008Maybe this has spread far and wide, but I’ve recently seen an interesting phenomena where technology allows people to interact physically with projected pictures. The most elaborate have been games where you “herd” ducks into a nest (that’s located in the South Street Seaport), but when I was at Union Square, I ran into this [...]
