Image: WSP Eco Map showing tree clusters and Minetta Creek With the release of the NYC Street Tree Map by the Parks Department this fall, I wanted to plug the WSP Eco Map, a project of Washington Square Park Eco Projects, which shows the locations of the 200-plus trees growing in the almost 10-acre park. Washington […]
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I promised you wild strawberries on Twitter but changed my mind after spending the late afternoon today in Lyon Park. I started a Trees of Lyon Park project on iNaturalist with a single observation on April 24. I made my next three observations two days later on April 26. I made one observation on April […]
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Image: Plate 31, 1921-1923. NYPL Digital Collections. Washington Square Park was not always parkland. The land was upland meadow and a marsh supported by the Minetta waterbody. It was farmland, too. The farmers were indentured but free blacks. The land east of Minetta Waters was purchased by the City in 1797 for a potter’s field […]
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Last week I shared behavior maps created by School of Visual Arts (SVA) students who observed the behaviors of people and non-human animals in Washington Square Park. I am so excited to share another set of four maps with you. These maps were also created by SVA students. Sneha, Nga, Hanna, and Dami designed sensory […]
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As long-time readers of this blog might know, I direct Washington Square Park Eco Projects. As part of my social media work for the organization, I often post a map of the park to Instagram on Mondays. About a month ago while researching maps of the park, I came across the work of students in […]
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