Let Them Eat Stinky Cheese! Save Union Square
HANDS OFF UNION SQUARE PARK PAVILION!
CREATIVE INTERVENTION ON THURSDAY NIGHT!
WHAT: Funky Protest Cheese Party to interrupt Union Square Partnership’s Harvest in the Square, an annual private self-congratulatory dinner for Those Who Would Privatize the Pavilion.
WHERE: South end of Union Square.
WHEN: Thursday, September 24th at 8:00pm. OR Join the Times Up! Soul and Funk Ride, at Thompkins Square Park at 7:00pm, and ride from there (times-up.org)
KEEP PUBLIC PARKS PUBLIC!
PARKS ARE FOR PEOPLE NOT FOR PROFIT!
Background:
Danny Meyer and the Union Square Partnership have plans to turn the Pavilion building at the north end of this park – a public building built with public money for public use – into a private upscale restaurant, a plan that has been aided and abetted by councilwoman Rosie Mendez, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg. These plans ignore the noble history of that very special place, and, perhaps worse, ignores the needs and desires of the residents of the Union Square area, and indeed all of New York City.
The area around Union Square has the highest density of restaurants in the entire city.
New York City has the least amount of public space per capita of any city in the country.
The Union Square Park Pavilion is seen by many as the birthplace of the Labor Movement. It has historically been used as a children’s play space, a community gathering place and a center of free speech and free assembly.
LEARN MORE:
http://unionsquarenotforsale.wordpress.com/
http://www.saveunionsquare.org/
http://www.unionsquarepartnershipsucks.org/
TAKE ACTION:
Contact Rosie Mendez and tell her NO restaurants in Union Square Park District Office Phone
212-677-1077
Legislative Office Phone
212-788-7366