Washington Square Park Community Outrage​.​Tell our officials we're fed up & they must act !

We are the neighbors, residents, businesses, taxpayers, associations, stakeholders, and voters in the area immediately around Washington Square Park. Our goal is to bring awareness to our elected officials, community associations, and city agencies that we will no longer tolerate the illegal activity within WSP and spilling out into the immediate Greenwich Village neighboring areas.

We are delivering this unified message to tell you:
· We are fed up with the lack of enforcement of basic long-standing laws and the illegal activity that regularly occurs in and around the park.
· We are fed up with the lack of enforcement of standing curfews.
· We are fed up with loud amplified music that runs well past midnight.
· We are fed up with the residual trash, broken glass, food waste and human waste that remains after those illegal events.
· We are fed up with the destruction, defacement and vandalizing of park monuments, the Arch, structures, gardens and benches.
· We are fed up with drug dealing, drug use, and junkies commandeering and regularly occupying the Northwest and Southwest quadrants of the park for the purpose of drug sales and use.
· We are fed up with the filth, urination, defecation, spitting, discarded drug paraphernalia, alcohol bottles and cans and general filth in those areas of the park.
· We are fed up with public alcohol use and sale, crack, cigarette and pot smoking.
· We are fed up with junkies: sleeping, having sex, generating trash and intimidating patrons of the park.
· We are fed up with not being able to take our children to the children's play area for fear of finding needles or being exposed to marijuana smoke or being exposed to the criminal elements.
· We are fed up with our businesses being victims of shoplifting only to see those goods then sold on the West side of the park.
· We are fed up with what now has become regular fireworks in the park and the fire hazard it presents in the park and nearby buildings.
· We are fed up with the ineffective Park Enforcement Police coverage and inaction.
· We are fed up with illegal bicycles, scooters, motorcycles, skateboards and similar running rampant in the park posing a danger to seniors, pets, children and others.
· We are fed up with the lack of what was once a regular NYPD Police presence in the park due to lack of funding/staffing of our local Police Precinct.
· We are fed up with our elected representatives not being attentive to these issues or even having an active voice in potential remedies or support of their constituents.
· We are fed up with the lack of sufficient staffing/funding of our local Police Precinct contributing to a decline in quality of life and increase in violent and other crimes.
· We are fed up with the negative impact this has on our neighborhood safety, property values and quality of life.
· Mostly, we are fed up hearing of multiple arrests, especially those arrests of repeat offenders that are not prosecuted by our district attorneys and judges. This lack of prosecution is a grave concern and a threat to public safety and enjoyment of our park.
We are calling on our local authorities, elected officials, Mayor's Office, candidates, community agencies, judges and district attorneys to take immediate action. We won't tolerate this regular, overt, illegal and detrimental activity. We won't let this happen in full view of our children's playgrounds. We are raising public awareness, protest and engaging media attention to bring a prompt remedy to this situation. We, as your constituents, are unified and mobilizing and we're not letting this go until the park is returned to a safe and pleasant environment for us all.
We will VOTE YOU OUT, if you don't take immediate substantive action and let this condition continue. We will continue to bring public awareness and build support of this issue. We will not let this issue rest!