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It’s My Park Day at Tompkins Square Park!

1-4pm Sunday, May 4. Join Partnerships for Parks and the LES Ecology Center to help activate and beautify our park with a Watercolor Leaf Painting workshop led by local artist Jodie Niss, and learn how to care for street trees at a demonstration led by LESEC staff. Meet at the Slocum Memorial Fountain, just inside the newly renovated Field House. […]

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Register for our Jane’s Walks! Tompkins: NYC’s Biggest Little Public Park 3pm May 2, 3 and 4

Nowhere else in NYC is so much history, culture, and activity packed into such a tiny urban footprint. During this compact, comfortable stroll, we’ll learn about New York’s first dog run; the memorial to the greatest disaster in NYC before 9/11; the annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival; the American birth of Hare Krishna, and the open space where […]

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Rally to Landmark the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary 11am Tue Oct 15 at East 13th Street & 2nd Avenue!

Join preservation organizations, disability advocacy groups, doctors, staff, patients and alumni of the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary this Tuesday, October 15 at 11am for a rally and press conference calling for the city to landmark the hospital’s historic main building. All are welcome to attend! Can’t make the rally? Sign Village Preservation’s petition […]

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