Saturday, April 19, 2025

A barricade-free chess experience in Tompkins Square Park now possible

The area around the chess tables inside the 7th and A entrance to Tompkins Square Park is now barricade free. 

EVG reader Joann Falkenburg noted this scene yesterday...
The tables had been (mostly) behind barricades since the fatal double shooting here last July. In September, D.A. Bragg's office anounced the indictment of two men for their alleged role in the shooting that 74-year-old Fermin Frito. A second man was also shot in the ambush that erupted over a reported drug turf war. 

Hopefully this spot — sometimes referred to as the "crime corner," at least in the EVG comments — can remain barricade-free moving forward.

With the barricades removed and field house renovations finished, Tompkins Square Park is now fully open to the public.

1 comment:

#DONTEVERCALLMEBRO said...

"Hopefully this spot — sometimes referred to as the "crime corner," at least in the EVG comments — can remain barricade-free moving forward."

10, 9, 8, 7......tick tick.

Sorry.