Dimes Square

English

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[1], →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.
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