O'Bryant Square

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This article is about about the park nicknamed Paranoid Park. For the novel, see Paranoid Park (novel). For the film, see Paranoid Park (film).

O'Bryant Square

Paranoid Park (also known sometimes as Punk Park) is a small park and fountain at the cross streets of Southwest Park Avenue and Stark Street in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. The park is officially known to the city as O'Bryant Square. The park may have gotten its name due to its near-exclusive frequenting by street kids and homeless people in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s.^{[citation needed]} In the 1980s, Paranoid Park served as a hub for punk activity: one of the local transit systems's last bus stops in the immediate downtown hub, Paranoid Park serves as the mid-point, connecting passengers traveling from Portland's southeast (across the Willamette River), to the northwest section of town.^{[citation needed]} As a point of transit, one block off the city center, but not immediately within access of storefronts and shopping centers, and owing to the fact that the Tri-Met bus shelter shields the park from immediate street-view, Paranoid Park served as a place for much illegal street activity, also a likely factor in how the park got its nickname.^{[citation needed]}

The 2006 Blake Nelson young adult novel Paranoid Park and the 2007 Gus Van Sant film based on the novel take place in Portland, but Blake and Van Sant's Paranoid Park is a skatepark on Portland's east side.

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