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Union Square Park

Park · Union Square, New York

Union Square Park

Opened as a public park in July 1839 and named a National Historic Landmark in 1997 as the site of the first Labor Day parade in 1882. Home to Henry Kirke Brown's 1856 equestrian statue of George Washington, the first public sculpture erected in New York City since 1770.

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Bounded by E 14th St (south), E 17th St (north), Union Square West/Broadway and Union Square East/Park Ave S, Manhattan

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