Let the sun shine in! Hipsters, mimes, geese flock to the parks

Reading some serious ink — and showing a lot, too — in Tompkins Square Park amid the beautiful — at last! — spring weather. Photo by Bob Krasner

The sun finally came out last Sunday and brought everybody to the public areas and green spaces around the Village. In the Village section of Hudson River Park — some distance away from Soho’s Wooster St., where animal-rights activists have been protesting against the Canada Goose outerwear store for using coyote fur and goose down in its coats — a real, live goose, with all its feathers still intact, hovered and landed on a lawn. It waddled around and in between sunbathers, picnickers and dads throwing balls to their kids. After a couple of kids chased it, the fowl eventually took flight once again, and probably landed in another spot in the park to happily waddle about some more. Photo by Tequila Minsky

With tons of people out in Washington Square Park enjoying the sunny weather on Tuesday, a mime on a pedestal with a football — or possibly a rugby ball — was scoring a touchdown with onlookers as he held various poses. Photos by Lincoln Anderson