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Greenwich Village Gentrifies

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Chris Steins
24 May 2005 - 7:00am

A park redesign symbolizes Greenwhich Village's bohemian past and gentrified future.

A long-running dispute over the renovation of the Greenwich Village park "has turned the landmark square into a battleground for community groups, which are quarreling over its physical appearance — and its future.

...Should the park, dating to the 1820s, be restored as a model of precise urban planning, with an iron fence designed to keep out dogs and vagrants? Or should the now-scruffy square, long home to beatniks, folkies, rap poets, hip hop artists and other iconoclasts, be left as it is?"

Full Story: Idyllic Park Becomes a Battlefield of Ideals
Source: The Los Angeles Times, May 23, 2005
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If hundreds of people in your community raised reasonable concerns about a planning program you developed, how would you respond? Perhaps you might call a community meeting, or ask community elected officials to reach out to community leaders.
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