Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan’s East Village is a bit of a counterculture park – like the neighborhood.
It’s calmer now, but the park has been a protest site since the 1870s. There were Vietnam War protests in the 1960s. In the 1980s, the NYPD used extreme violence to clear a homeless encampment – and infamously got filmed doing it.
Today the park is known for the Dance Parade and Festival, Charlie Parker Jazz Festival (he used to live across Avenue B), and the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade.
Latin Culture at Tompkins Square Park
Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade Softens Life’s Ruff Edges
TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, East Village, Manhattan 🎃
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October 2022
The 32nd Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade is back in Tompkins Square Park on Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 1pm (Registration 12pm). FREE.
Great Expectations
Alfonso Cuarón’s 1998 film “Great Expectations,” starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ethan Hawke, features a meeting at the Temperance Fountain. It’s a great New York movie. 🇲🇽