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Washington
Square Area
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Washington Square Arch Restoration
In 2002, during restoration of the famed Washington
Square Arch at the foot of Fifth Avenue, the
Association provided funding and research. The
Association identified and located the quarry that
supplied the marble for the two statues of George
Washington on the north side of the monument.
Discovery of the quarry allowed restoration
specialists to use matching marble to replace lost
or broken pieces of the statuary
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 New
Comfort Station Design
In
April, 2010, Community Board #2 approved the design for the
new comfort station to be installed in the renovated park.
To quote the
Parks Committee's resolution,
"the design responds well to
many of the requests made by CB-2 at a scoping meeting in
2009, including reducing the size of the rest rooms and
providing access from the front of a multi-purpose building,
eliminating vehicle parking within the park, creating a
visitor-friendly public access to park administration,
providing a certain amount roof space for both “green roof”
and solar panels, and avoiding the use of fenced off
maintenance areas." The comfort station will,
additionally, be fully ADA compliant and there will be a
separate “family” rest room.
 Also
approving was the
CB-2 Landmarks Committee
which commended the design as
unpretentious and
suitable in its context for blending into the park
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