Comments on: USA: Tompkins Square Park

By: Joe Ciolino

Joe Ciolino — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:41:42 +0000

The daytime “protest” was a joke. Over-hyped by the media, especially the Village Voice, it was a very small group of people who attmepted to surround the park holding hands. They didn’t have enough do cover one side! Most of the residents of the neighborhood wanted to put a torch to the place, and would have, had not the city intervened, and we would have had a lot of french fried drug addicts, punks, and homeless as a result.

What a joke.

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Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:01:14 +0000

[...] seem to care about their eviction. Not to mention, New York City hates tent cities – the Tompkins Square Park evictions made the police look bad but it has basically become city policy to prevent homeless people from being in tents. In the wake [...]

By: fran De Stefano

fran De Stefano — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:22:22 +0000

I grew up on 11th Street between ave’s A&B during the 50’s. Tompkins Square Park was beautiful and enjoyed by all the second generation immigrant families. It did get very bad and even as a teenager during the early 60’s you didn’t go into the park at night. My life has come full circle and now when I come to visit my son who lives on Ave A it’s a pleasure to see the park like it was when I was a kid. I now bring my grandchildren there and feel very safe like I did back in the day. Unfortunatly in the 80’s it housed the homeless. I understand the riots but what I don’t understand is that it’s a park. A beautiful park, and I am glad to see it back to it’s days of glory.

By: svanner

svanner — Mon, 02 May 2011 16:09:40 +0000

hi,

i took some claim for this subject in a film. Pen name above only,
a/k/a film differs. It is not completely suit,however dinkinsville
is aso a byword for the depression,etc when persons lived in central
park,& even as far away as upstate actually during this time 91 i was living in a rural setting- penniless in a lowly cottage. The location does not matter,however
not knowing the exact street here and guessing- there were also
fires leveled land when lived alphabet city 89. There were photograpers when lived in some of these buildings greeted us at the door. I oft wondered where those photos went or more like it ended up? No not my portfolio,tis is another lifetime where i would not compare photos o vi in having them,i actually was embarrassed to be
greeted by the door and did not care for it- minor papparazzi or something. I heard a filmist found some photos tossed out film footage etc. And so i thoght with all the manifold events of squatters and camprs and riots and protests on A likely!

By: Urban Omnibus » Liberation Squares

Urban Omnibus » Liberation Squares — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:25:30 +0000

[...] Surrounding Tompkins Square Park, Lower East Side residents protest the forceful closure of Tompkins Square Park. June 1991. Photo by Q. Sakamaki, via Gaia Photos. [...]

By: Nabe News: July 21 - Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

Nabe News: July 21 - Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:33:50 +0000

[...] brilliant photo essay of Tompkins Square Park in the late eighties/early nineties [Gaia Photos via Blah Blog [...]