Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan’s East Village is sort of a counterculture park – like its neighborhood.
It’s more family oriented 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 got filmed doing it.
Today Tompkins Square Park is known for the Dance Parade and Festival, Charlie Parker Jazz Festival (he used to live on Avenue B), and the Halloween Dog Costume Parade.
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Great Expectations
Alfonso Cuarón’s (Mexico) 1998 film “Great Expectations,” starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ethan Hawke, features a meeting at the Temperance Fountain.