Union Square, Manhattan

Union Square is situated in New York City space and public park.

Generally

The zip code resp. ZIP code is 10003rd Union Square is served by the subway station 14th Street / Union Square (lines L, N, Q, R and 4, 5, 6). In the square on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, the Union Square Greenmarket takes place with the sale of agricultural products from the area including organic food (Organic Food).

Geographical location

Union Square is located in Gramercy and the Flatiron District, a district of Midtown Manhattan. To the south, Greenwich Village and the East Village to add.

Is limited space in the north of the East 17th Street ( E 17th St), in the south of the East 14th Street ( E 14th St). Diagonal through the square leads of Broadway. The western side is the Union Square West, the eastern side is the Union Square East. This interrupts here on Park Avenue South.

History

The name comes from the place of the fact that it connects the Broadway and Park Avenue. The park opened in 1839. During this period in the city's other places like the Gramercy Park.

Here you followed European models. In 1930, during the Depression, called here over 30,000 unemployed in a protest new jobs.

Through the subway construction, the southern part was raised and terraced.

Fountains and sculptures

Union Square is known for its impressive equestrian statue of George Washington, which was designed by Henry Kirke Brown and unveiled in 1856. She is the first sculpture that was unveiled to the public in New York since 1770 ( equestrian statue of George III. ) And the first American rider sculpture in bronze. Other statues in the park represent:

• Marquis de Lafayette, created by Frédéric - Auguste Bartholdi on the occasion of the centennial on July 4, 1876
• Abraham Lincoln, designed by Henry Kirke Brown ( 1870),
• Mahatma Gandhi, in the southwestern corner of the park in 1986, reminiscent of the social activism at Union Square.

1881 was the James Fountain (1881 ), a Temperanzbrunnen with the allegorical figure of Charity who empties with the help of a child a jug of water. This was donated by Daniel Willis James and was designed by German sculptor Adolf von Donndorf.

Environment

To the southeast, the Central Con- Edison is (E 14th St corner of Irving Place), Stuyvesant Place. On the square the Union Square Theatre, which is a big off-Broadway theater since its construction in 1926 is. (100 E 17th St). In the area located between Union and Madison Square formerly finest shopping area of the city, the Ladies' Mile. To the south lay the Virgin Megastore. Here are a number of busy restaurants, such as the Heartland Brewery, where the beer is brewed on site and numerous coffee shops.

Numerous well-known buildings are located in close proximity to Union Square, such as the Bank of the Metropolis Building or the Decker Building, which housed Andy Warhol's studio and was also the site of the assassination attempt on him.