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Food shortages, Civil War draft laws, police repression of demonstrations, and the removal of the homeless all have caused rioting in Tompkins Square Park during its 185-year history. But its American Elms have seen it all and withstood it, including the tree that overlooked the USA’s first Hare Krishna chanting in 1966. See the sights of a once-troubled park from its ancient elms to its monument to NYC’s greatest human disaster before 9/11.