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Monday, April 14, 2008

UPDATE ON “UNION SQUARE BOONDOGGLE”: Street Artists Fight Back

By Alex Kane
April 14, 2008

Street artists expressing their First Amendment rights in Union Square Park won a victory after successfully protesting their eviction from the park early last week.

On Friday, April 4, a Parks Department official approached artists who had set up in the park and told them that, due to the construction of the private restaurant in the north pavilion, they would not be allowed to sell their art on Wednesdays and Saturdays, two of the most popular days for artists to sell their work, and that the artists were to vacate the park....

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