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  • WATCH: Group Scream Marks End Of Trump's First Year

    11/08/2017 8:09:05 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 52 replies
    Patch ^ | November 8, 2017 | Ciara McCarthy
    WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK, NY — A collective scream Wednesday marked a year since Donald Trump was elected leader of the U.S. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered for the anniversary, crowding into Washington Square Park Wednesday night and howling at the top of their lungs. The cathartic group wail was the only release that would satisfy some New Yorkers after the year that's passed since Trump defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. New Yorkers overwhelmingly supported Clinton during the 2016 presidential elections with all boroughs except Staten Island casting most of their votes for her – 79 percent of ballots. The crowds...
  • Crackheads, bums and hookers rule Washington Square Park [NYC]

    08/05/2016 6:11:17 AM PDT · by C19fan · 28 replies
    NY Post ^ | August 4, 2016 | Matthew Allan and Bruce Golding
    Just three weeks before NYU’s newest class moves into the area, a group of junkies and crackheads has turned a leafy pathway in Washington Square Park into an open-air drug den — and the NYPD is doing nothing about it. As many as 20 strung-out vagrants have taken over several benches in the park’s northwest corner, where they openly consume hard drugs just steps from the children’s playground, outraged neighbors said.