Tompkins Square Grove

Stand here

See the place through the views available here, the HUMARK layer attached to it, and what people imagined instead. Real imagery is identified where available; illustrative views say so.

Leave something here

Curated ground. Your mark stays; custodians review it afterwards.

Left here · 2

• YD

  OBJECT

  The Chess Elm

  Yusuf Demir · @yusuf

• KL

  DEDICATION

  A bench facing the drum circle

  Kaia Lindqvist · @kaia

Lives that passed through here · 4

Same place, same years

• YDAO

  Yusuf Demir and Amara Osei were both connected to this place between 2004 and 2011.

  gathered here · gathered here — they may never have met.

• YDDM

  Yusuf Demir and Dov Marek were both connected to this place between 2008 and 2015.

  gathered here · gathered here — they may never have met.

• YDKL

  Yusuf Demir and Kaia Lindqvist were both connected to this place between 2017 and 2019.

  gathered here · gathered here — they may never have met.

• AODM

  Amara Osei and Dov Marek were both connected to this place between 2008 and 2011.

  gathered here · gathered here — they may never have met.

Imagined here · 1

• KL

  Idea · 2026

  A shelf by the chess tables

  One weatherproof shelf near the chess tables, so the boards and the clocks stop living in plastic bags.

  Kaia Lindqvist

  Nobody has continued this idea yet.

Imagined versions of this place. The real place is unchanged, and nothing here implies permission or approval.

Standing here · 3

• TREE

  The Chess Elm

  Named elm, brass root marker

• TREE

  Sabah

  Named elm, morning side of the path

• BENCH

  Bench facing west, for the drum circle

  Ash slats, engraved iron ends

Digital layer only. The physical place here is unchanged.