Union Square: The ‘Epicenter Of the City’s Energy’
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In 1979, architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote that Union Square “can accommodate flamboyant showoffs and it can accommodate derelicts, but not genteel matrons.”
The vibrancy of earlier decades, he wrote, had died down, leaving a “dreary park” and a surrounding area that was “tawdry with no particular charm.”
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