This beautiful park is the de facto boundary between downtown and midtown. It features great statues of Gandhi and Abraham Lincoln, a restaurant with an all-model waitstaff, permanent skateboarders, a Farmers' Market, and a four-story Barnes & Noble.
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Link to Union Square Partnership - Union Square is really cool according to Union Square Partnership! I'm inclined to agree!
Here's a great photo in the New York Times
of today's blizzard (January 23, 2005):
