[Leica] Union "square or triangle"

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

New York has a rich history and its even richer downtown as its a couple
centuries older. Has a whole different feel to it. I'm on the upper west
side and the Dakota right down the street from me where John Lennon lived
was called that becuae you may as well be living in North or South Dakota.
It was so far in the boon docks out of the way like summer camp.
But its a gird up here its not spaghetti like down there and we have
numbered streets. Up here the big thing is if its "prewar" or not. WWII.
But Broadway brings me right home cutting across all confusion.
I've walked it for 3 or 4 or more miles numerous times clicking the whole
way of course. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_(New_York_City)
-- 
Mark R.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/



> From: Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:15:56 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Union "square or triangle"
> 
> Rab writes:
> 
> NY can be quite funny as they name parks and intersections squares which 
> are
> 
> obvious triangles. And circles squares and visa versa. They don't sweat the
> 
> small stuff.
> - - - - -
> TRADITION, TRADITION
> In the old days a flat piece of ground in the center of town where people
> met to talk or barter was named a "square" regardless of its shape. If it
> was a public grazing field for farm animals it was a "commons." The name
> Union comes from the fact that it was the junction of early New York's two
> main roads, Broadway and 4th Avenue, which is now Park Avenue. Broadway
> starts at the Battery, angles across Manhattan, and parallels the Hudson
> River all the way up to Albany.
> Larry Z
> 
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