Washington Square

[brigdh]

Washington Square, a small park about the size of an average block, is the park I walk through the most, the one most central to my daily routes. It has been closed for about two years, due to construction intended to move the enormous fountain in the middle of it about eight feet to the left. This is because the fountain was not in line with the arch built at one side of the park, or with Fifth Avenue, which runs up to the Square. Of course, the original designer intended for the fountain to be off-center, to encourage people to stroll around, but clearly no one in charge of the construction was concerned about that.

However! Washington Square is finally open again. And the worst of the proposed changes have not happened- there's no gated fence around the park, and the fountain (which has lovely inner rims for people to sit on and for small children to climb down before running screaming through the water) has not been rendered inaccessible. I'm so happy! And the fountain was particularly lovely today; all white foaming water shooting up against the green leaves of trees. There is even (probably temporarily) a blue sky, after weeks and weeks of unending rain. It's still not really warm enough to appreciate all the joys of cool water (despite it being the middle of June, what the hell is up with the East Coast's weather pattern), but it's still wonderfully pleasing.

Photo of Washington Square.

Comments

[moonsheen.livejournal.com]

oh thank god it's back open! I spent the first ten or so years of my life in that area, and I was very horrified to discover it'd been ripped up. Clearly I need to duck down there again!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was so annoyed the whole time it was closed.

[childofatlantis.livejournal.com]

Oh, that looks lovely. I kind of really want to visit New York at the moment, don't know why. ^_^

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I support visits to New York! I do love the city.