Dimes Square

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Dimes Square

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Etymology

Blend of Dimes +‎ Times Square, after the Dimes restaurant located at the intersection of Canal Street and Division Street.

Proper noun

Dimes Square

1. (US, informal) A microneighborhood of Manhattan, roughly located between Chinatown and the Lower East Side neighborhoods of New York City.
   • 2022 August 9, Julia Yost, “New York’s Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     The scene is often associated with “Dimes Square,” a downtown Manhattan neighborhood popular with a pandemic-weary Generation Z — or Zoomer — crowd, but it has spread across a network of podcasts and upstart publications.

   • 2025, Sarah Hoover, The Motherload: Episodes from the Brink of Motherhood, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 295:

     I imagined her saying she'd seen Tom out on a date, or kissing some young, hot barista, or maybe with his arms wrapped around a bartender or a waitress who worked in Dimes Square.