by Tequila Minsky

Saturday was blustery and drizzly, but that didn't stop very concerned neighbors of Little Italy and Soho who came out fired up, protesting — again — what had happened to their tiny square, which is really a triangle, in what they stressed is a "park-starved" neighborhood. Petrosino Square, bounded by Spring, Lafayette and Kenmare Sts. and Cleveland Place, became parkland in 1912. In 1987, it was renamed for Joseph Petrosino (1860-1909), a New York police lieutenant who famously battled the mafia.

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Source: http://thevillager.com/