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Accessible by the L Train at 14th Street and 1st Avenue, Tompkins Square Park begins where St. Marks Place ends. Here is a vital place that is bound by 10th Street to the north, 7th Street to the south, Avenue B to the east and Avenue A to the west.

This urbane park embodies its East Village neighborhood, a vigorous mix of people within the larger melting pot of New York City. In August 1988, the Tompkins Square Riot was a result of the City's repeated attempts to clear the park of homeless people and empty nearby buildings of squatters. Shades of its tense past remain, but it is now predominantly a place where the neighborhood's tenants relax. There are playgrounds, a dog run and even grass to hang out on.

- Head westward on 8th Street, taking in the numerous shops and tiny restaurants at your leisure. Walk all the way to Fifth Avenue, turn southward and there's the Washington Square arch designed by Stanford White.

To the north, Washington Square is bound by Waverly Place, southward by West 4th Street, eastward by University Place and westward by MacDougal Street. It is accessible by the A, B, C, D, E, F and Q trains at the West 4th Street and Sixth Avenue station; by the N and the R trains at the 8th Street and Broadway station and by the 4, 5 and 6 trains at the Astor Place station. Surrounded by New York University buildings, it is heavily populated with students.

The land for Washington Square Park was purchased by New York City in 1827 and the neighborhood rapidly grew. A row of historic houses survives on the park's north side. During summer, everybody hangs out on the inner steps of the park's fountain. Numerous street performers also use the park as their headquarters.







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