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Tompkins Square Park is a 10.5-acre (4.2 ha) public park in the Alphabet City portion of East Village, Manhattan, New York City.The square-shaped park, bounded on the north by East 10th Street, on the east by Avenue B, on the south by East 7th Street, and on the west by Avenue A, is abutted by St. Marks Place to the west.
After the Tompkins Square Riot of 1874, the park held a symbolic place in the New York labor movement. [8] In the years leading up to 1988, the East Village — and Tompkins Square Park in particular — had become a gathering place and home for the wayward and contingents of the homeless and rowdy youth, [9] growing into a large tent city. [10]
Over 7,000 workers gathered in Tompkins Square Park on January 13, 1874, [2] including about 1,200 workers from the German Tenth Ward Workingmen's Association. [16] This was the largest demonstration that New York City had ever seen. [8] Roughly 1,600 policemen were stationed in the surrounding area.
The event originated at the Tompkins Square Dog Run, located in N.Y.C's Tompkins Square Park, but construction in the area has pushed the event onto Avenue A for the time being. For 2024, the ...
1988 Tompkins Square Park riot This page was last edited on 14 August 2021, at 07:33 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
1988 – Tompkins Square Park riot, occurred August 6 and 7 as protesters against a city imposed curfew clashed with police [24] 1991 – Crown Heights riot, occurred August 19 through 21 between black and Orthodox Jewish residents after two children of Guyanese immigrants were unintentionally struck by an automobile driven by an Orthodox Jew [25]
The East 10th Street Historic District is a small historic district located in the Alphabet City area of the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.It includes all 26 buildings, numbered 293 to 345, on East 10th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B, across from Tompkins Square Park.
A week later, Missing helped organize another initially peaceful protest at Tompkins Square Park, which grew violent after the band performed a concert. [ 4 ] [ 7 ] The group's biggest cultural impact, other than their disruptive live performances, was the creation of their infamous "The Party's Over" image of an upside-down martini glass ...