Spring Street Park
40°43′30″N 74°00′16″W / 40.7249°N 74.0045°W
SoHo Square is a small triangular park in lower Manhattan in New York City. The park is bounded by Spring Street on the north, Broome Street on the south, Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) on the east, and a narrow two-block street also considered part of Sixth Avenue on the west (the only part of Sixth Avenue open to southbound vehicular traffic).[1] The neighborhood in which the square is located is called by some West SoHo and by others Hudson Square.[2]
The square was created when Sixth Avenue was extended south of Carmine Street, one of several similar squares to come into existence in that way.[3] In keeping with the renaming of the avenue as the "Avenue of the Americas" in 1945, the square contains a larger-than-lifesize statue of General José Artigas, a Uruguayan independence leader and national hero, which is a second cast from a statue by Uruguayan sculptor José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín, the first of which stands in front of the Uruguayan National Bank in Montevideo, where it has been since 1949.[3][4]
The square is under the jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. As of early 2017, it is undergoing a major reconstruction.
The Dahesh Museum of Art, the Chelsea Career & Technical Education High School, the NYC iSchool, and the Here performance venue are all located around the square.