Spring Street Park
40°43′30″N 74°00′16″W / 40.7249°N 74.0045°W
Soho Square is a triangular "square" in the SoHo neighbourhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded by Broome Street on the south, Clark Street on the west, Avenue of the Americas on the east, and Spring Street on the north.[1]
The square was created when Sixth Avenue was extended south of Carmine Street, one of several to come into existence in that way.[2] In keeping with the renaming of the avenue as the "Avenue of the Americas" in 1945, the square contains a longer-than-lifesize statue of General José Artigas, a Uruguayan independence leader and national hero, which is a second cast from a statue by Uruguyan sculptor José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín, which stands in front of the Uruguayan National Bank in Montevideo, where it has been since 1949.[2][3] As of December 2016, the park's reconstruction is in the procurement phase.[4]
The Dahesh Museum of Art, the Chelsea Career & Technical Education High School and the NYC iSchool are located on the square, as is the Here performance venue.