Hudson Square Opens 3 Parks For Spring Season: PICTURES

HUDSON SQUARE, NY — The Hudson Square Business Improvement District (BID) opened three parks on Monday in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood for the spring season. The newly designed spaces come complete with additional furniture to better allow for safe and socially distant lounging.

In coordination with the opening of the three parks, the Hudson Square BID has partnered with the nonprofit Streetlab to create outdoor drawing studios in one of the three parks on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons starting in May.

Additionally, the BID also relaunched its temporary curbside dining spaces, called parklets — which provide for expanded outdoor dining seating options, and come with painted graphics on the ground to "reflect the color and artistry found throughout the neighborhood."

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Hudson Square is just below the West Village and is generally considered to exist between Clarkson Street on the north, Canal Street on the south, Sixth Avenue on the east, and West Street on the west.

Freeman Plaza East and West and Spring Street Park are the three green spaces that opened for the season on Monday.

“The public realm has played an important role in providing the outdoor space we need to support our businesses and community during COVID,” said BID President and CEO, Ellen Baer, in a news release. “We are thrilled to welcome people back to our neighborhood with the expansion of our parklets and newly configured parks that offer a safe and comfortable atmosphere to enjoy Hudson Square.”

Here are the Lower Manhattan restaurants where you can find a parklet.

• Chop’t
• Deb’s
• Getting Hungry
• Harold’s
• Houseman
• Local & Vine
• Tauro

You can read more about the Hudson Square Business Improvement District here.