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Snow doubt about it, flakey fun in Tompkins Square

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Last Wednesday’s snowstorm was fun for everyone in Tompkins Square Park. This page, clockwise from top: Chloe, 9, with family friend Stephanie Howard made a snow crown; dog run pals Brutus, a Boston Terrier — who looked maybe just a little excited? — and Petunia, a Brussels Griffon, cavorted in the fresh powder; Helen Stratford was cozy in her coat she made out of a white blanket purchased on Orchard St. years ago. (“Back then, it was all fabric stores,” she recalled. “It was a scrap, but it still keeps me really warm.”) Opposite page: Robin Woerner, a student at N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, sculpted a crowned nymph out of a snowdrift on a water fountain and also a squirrel on a fence. Not pictured, a group of local youths built a 6-foot-tall, standing, male member, distressing some passing parents, but the youths later flattened it.