#TompkinsSquare PARK

‘The church in the background is St. Bridget's Roman Catholic started in 1848 by famine survivors. It is at Avenue B and East Seventh Street. The church has been the center of a lot of controversy in the last several years as the Archdiocese of New York sought to demolish the building. In May 2008 an anonymous donor gave $20 million to save the building and provide an endowment for the parish.’ http://www.maggieblanck.com/NewYork/LowerEastSide.html

#OTD in 1873
‘Tompkin's Square, New York - out for a breath of fresh air’
*Harper's Weekly* September 13, 1873
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Collection of Maggie Land Blanck
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August 6 Peace Love Art Activism | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley August 6 Peace Love Art Activism, Terry Nichols said prison officials in Colorado inserted IVs into his veins and force fed him after hunger strikes

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#OnThisDate in 1988, the NYPD's 9th Precinct began enforcing 1am-to-sunrise curfew in #TompkinsSquare Park, generally asking party goers to leave and allowing the homeless to stay.
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Several policemen were severely cut while taking the prisoners to the station house. In the crowd were several hundred Communists, with red flags. The Central Committee of the Workingmen left the Casino, in Houston Street, at eleven A. M. followed by mounted police. On reaching Topmpins Square, the crowd hooted and yelled and stoned the police. While Captain Walsh was clearing the square his attention was suddenly directed to a body of men, numbering about two hundred, who were marching down the avenue followed by numerous rabble. The leader, Justus Swab, a Communist, carried an immense red flag which he defiantly waved over his head. When he reached the square, Captain Allaire arrested him and sent the flag to the police station. The First Avenue Station-house was besieged for several hours by the friends of those who were confined there. Our illustration represents the mob flying before the police.’

in Tompkins Square on Tuesday morning January 13th, and by ten o'clock at least 6,000 persons had assembled in the square. ...’
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Harvey Epstein @UrbanJustice ""Let's be clear @realDonaldTrump is violating the law." #NoBanNoWall #tompkinssquare