Jedi knights, Sith lords and sundry “Star Wars” characters filled Washington Square Park Saturday evening for yet another epic lightsaber battle.
As their weapons glowed pink, blue, green and yellow in the darkness, they joyfully engaged in combat and took over the fountain, and were planning to keep on dueling until 11 p.m.
But at 9:30, in a dastardly move Darth Vader himself would surely savor, the Empire — i.e., the Parks Department — suddenly turned on the fountain’s water jets, sending most of them scattering. A few of them continued to wage water combat on the fountain’s fringes, though.
The red-garbed Sith, at right, said he was eagerly looking forward to the next installment of the massive biannual pillow fight in the historic Village park, which is coming up soon.
Back in March, state Senator Brad Hoylman told the pillow-fight organizers they had to get a permit, or else he wasn’t “down” with their feather-scattering melee, which he said also harms the park’s plantings and impacts families with small children and others who just want to use the park in peace.
But they went ahead and held the event anyway.
