It’s not surprising that a group of wealthy fundraisers would meddle in Washington Square Park. But it's noteworthy how cozy the relationship is between the Washington Square Park Conservancy’s members and the Parks Department. kvelsey reports
A party at Washington Square Park last summer. Photo: Alex Kent/Getty Images When the Washington Square Park Conservancy was created in 2013, its four wealthy founders insisted that their mission was a horticultural one — “planting bulbs, weeding the beds,” Betsey Ely told AM New York at the time. “We’re not here to run the park,” stressed another. But many in the community feared that the group would try to exert control over the public space.
Park conservancies — private nonprofits that raise money to maintain parks and in some cases also manage them — became a popular model for revitalizing neglected, often dangerous greenspaces in an era of anemic city funding. They followed the lead of the Central Park Conservancy, which played a key role in dramatically transforming the city’s flagship park beginning in the 1980s. But even as New York’s finances recovered, the model has remained popular.
Parks run by powerful conservancies also run the risk of becoming overly commercialized — during the 2014 Super Bowl, Pepsi and Verizon took over large swaths of Bryant Park for marketing events.
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