Photos by Steven
Last week, someone stole the brass plaque dedicated to former Tompkins Square Park supervisor Harry Greenberg from along the Ninth Street pedestrian walkway...
Greenberg worked in Tompkins from 1987 to 2010. A plaque via the Board of Howl! Arts Inc.
arrived here early in the summer of 2012... (
photo of Harry from 2012 by Stacie Joy)...
The working theory among Park sleuths is that someone stole the plaque for the materials instead of being a random act of vandalism/mischief.
Howl! Arts co-founder Riki Colon tells us that the organization plans to replace it ASAP.
Away from Tompkins, the plaque commemorating the Fillmore East at 105 Second Ave. near Sixth Street i
s also currently MIA.
6 comments:
Unfortunately the tree that the plaque was commemorating in Harry’s honor died last year. Part of the problem when Tompkins lost its full time gardener
Was that the umbrella tree? That was such a pretty tree and a shame to see it dead. I hope it can be replaced.
Some people have so little to do that destroying this was the highlight of the day/night
Hopefully it won’t keep happening.
National Register plaque on the Henry Street Settlement's Playhouse on Grand Street was also stolen.
Looking like someone's scrapping metal.
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