Crowd Gathers for Eid Prayer to Celebrate End of Ramadan in Washington Square Park

Members of the Muslim community gathered at Washington Square Park on Friday, March 20, to participate in Eid al-Fitr prayers marking the end of Ramadan month.Video filmed by @eri.ccka shows a large ...

As options dwindle for new Royals stadium, Washington Square Park remains

With another Royals season on the horizon next week, the publicly discussed options for a new baseball stadium have narrowed ...
Gothamist

The social media influencers now run Washington Square Park

Washington Square Park seems to be filled with people who have a bad case of "main character syndrome" these days.
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NYPD floods Washington Square Park with dozens of cops 24/7 to wipe out junkies, dealers — for good

It’s the ‘finest’ Washington Square Park has looked in a long time. The NYPD flooded the Greenwich Village landmark with 68 additional cops Friday — in a 24/7 crackdown aimed at vanquishing junkies ...
AOL

How Washington Square Park’s drug scene went from small-time weed dealers to a gang turf war with two celebs’ kids dead

Drug pushing has long been a stain on Washington Square Park, sullying its iconic arch and proximity to NYU. Parents from around the world pay some $93,000 a year for their children to attend the ...
New York Post

Feds bust up Washington Square Park’s brazen drug market with 19 arrests tied to 65 ODs

These dealers are finally getting benched. The feds cracked down on lawless Washington Square Park, busting up a round-the-clock, open-air drug market that operated for half a decade in the heart of ...
abc7NY

Hundreds rally in Washington Square park to denounce immigration raids across the country

WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK, Manhattan (WABC) -- Protesters hit the streets again on Saturday - this time against ramped-up efforts from the Trump Administration on immigration. Hundreds rallied in ...
NBC New York

Washington Sq. Park Mounds: They're Spectacular, But Are They Real?

The Washington Square Park blog has wrapped up its epic three-part series (after initially promising just two!) investigating the Parks Department's plans for the next two phases of the Washington ...
The Daily Dot

“Y’all are insane”: NYPD showed up to a snowball fight, made themselves the problem, then launched a criminal investigation

Things are getting heated after the presence of NYPD officers turned what was initially a fun snowball fight in Washington Square Park into a "criminal" investigation. Featured Video After Sunday's ...