Here's another one, also from the Times about musicians who are not being allowed to play in Central Park's newly established "Quiet Zones." Full text of the article here: PLAY IT LOUD & excerpt below.
"Several musicians who work in the 840-acre park and do not use electronic sound systems said parks enforcement officers had recently ordered them to cease playing or leave certain areas, including Bethesda Fountain, Strawberry Fields and the Boathouse. John Boyd, a singer, said he had refused and received six summonses.
On Sunday afternoon, the civil liberties lawyer Norman Siegel and Geoffrey Croft, the founder of NYC Park Advocates, a nonpartisan group that supports city parks, joined some of those musicians in a passageway next to Bethesda Fountain.
Mr. Siegel called the establishment and expansion of the Quiet Zones 'antithetical to the principles, values and spirit of the First Amendment.' "
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