That’s the other thing about Washington Square: It’s got a darker side. Journey inward and you’ll find an eternal flame and a memorial with several inscriptions, one of which informs you in all caps that “in unmarked graves within this square lie thousands of unknown soldiers of Washington’s Army who died of wounds and sickness during the Revolutionary War.” The most poignant inscription is at the top: “Freedom is a light for which many men have died in darkness.” America, like your rolled ice cream, came at a hefty price.