Washington Square Park

This guide to Washington Square Park centers on a January night in 1917, when six artists including Gertrude Drick, John Sloan and Marcel Duchamp found the arch's hidden door unguarded and climbed to its roof with lanterns, liquor and a declaration. It follows what they read aloud from the top of the arch and how word of it spread through the neighborhood by morning. You'll also hear what lies buried beneath the square itself, from the decades it served a very different purpose.