Completed in 1960, Chatham Green at 165 Park Row, 185 Park Row and 215 Park Row in lower Manhattan enjoys an award-winning design crafted by Kelly & Gruzen Architects. Chatham Green exhibits modernist 1960s architecture incorporating an undulating Italian-influenced structure. Chatham Green is located three blocks east of Tribeca, one block south of Chinatown and three blocks north of South Street Seaport. It is surrounded by trees and gardens and is steps away from City Hall, Wall Street, other downtown landmarks and countless nearby mass transit routes including the 4, 5, 6, N, R, Q, A, C, E, F, J, Z, 1, 2, 3, M9, M15, M15-SBS, M22 and M103.
Three hundred years ago, Chatham Green was nothing more than a broad green meadow in a farm belonging to Peter Stuyvesant. In the 1700s Chatham Square became a massive outdoor horse and housewares marketplace. By the mid-1800s, the square evolved into an early version of Times Square complete with saloons and tattoo parlors (the birthplace of American-style tattoos). During this period, the Chatham Square area started being referred to as "Five Points" named for the five pointed intersection located there. As popularized by The Gangs of New York (the 2002 Academy Award Best Picture nominated historical film by Martin Scorsese inspired by Herbert Asbury's 1928 nonfiction book of the same name), Five Points was a notoriously crime-filled ghetto alleged to have experienced the highest murder rate of any slum in the world. That being said, Five Points could also be considered the original American melting pot. First consisting primarily of newly emancipated African Americans (gradual emancipation led to the end of slavery in New York on July 4, 1827) and Irish immigrants.
While much has changed, the area still enjoys an energy, diversity and unique character that can be found nowhere else in New York City.
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