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Foley Square, also called Federal Plaza, is a street intersection in the Civic Center neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City, which contains a small triangular park named Thomas Paine Park. The space is bordered by Worth Street to the north, Centre Street to the east, and Lafayette Street to the west, and is located south of Manhattan's ...
Mar 27, 2024 · Foley Square is the city’s legal heart, surrounded by stately courthouses like the New York Supreme Court and the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse. Long ago, it was the exact opposite: the center of crime and lawlessness in fledgling New York.
The stark, black-granite abstract sculpture, "Triumph of the Human Spirit," serves as the square's centerpiece. Part of a fountain, the sculpture looks out at the buildings and soars to a height of 50 feet.
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Foley Square. This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park. This park in the heart of New York City's civic center is named for patriot, author, humanitarian, and political visionary Thomas Paine (1737-1809).
Foley Square is an American sitcom starring Margaret Colin which centers on an assistant district attorney in New York City. Original episodes aired from December 11, 1985, until April 8, 1986.
Within the Thomas Paine Park in lower Manhattan rests the historic Foley Square. Renovated and redesigned in the 1990s, architect R.G. Roesch laid five large bronze medallions (each seven feet in diameter) into the ground throughout the park, designed by Rebecca Darr and fabricated by Gregg Lefevre. The Foley Medallions were dedicated in 2000.
Mar 26, 2011 · Foley Square is named for Thomas F. “Big Tom” Foley (1852-1925), a prominent Democratic Party leader from the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Foley left school at the age of thirteen to support his widowed mother, working for a period as a blacksmith’s helper.
Foley Square, Manhattan. Black granite. Set at the center of a fountain, and rising nearly 50 feet into the air, this black granite abstract monument is derived from the antelope forms of Bambaran art.
Foley Square, Reade Street & Lafayette Street, Manhattan. This bronze medallion is one of five that commemorate various epochs in the life of Foley Square and its environs.
Jul 22, 2020 · Located in the civic heart of New York City adjacent to the historic site of the city’s African Burial Ground, the Black Lives Matter mural at Foley Square is the only one that’s creation was...
