What Was Dimes Square? | Vanity Fair
The tiny but infamous cluster of Manhattan blocks where skaters, intellectuals, and the art world collide is entering its luxury-hotel era. Not everyone is pleased.
Save this story Save this story Michele Maccarone opened her gallery at 45 Canal Street on November 3, 2001, the smell of the World Trade Center collapse still lingering a few blocks away. The off-grid block cluster where Division and Canal meet between Essex and Allen was at the time a smattering of electronics appliance stores and Chinese restaurants, and also the historical home of New York’s turn-of-the-century Jewish intelligentsia. But at the time, the opening of a hip contemporary art gallery in that neighborhood was as pioneering as landing on the moon. “Who knew Canal Street extended
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