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Dimes Square is a so-called "microneighborhood" [1] of New York City, located between the Chinatown and Lower East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan. The exact perimeter and nature of the neighborhood is debated, though survey data from The New York Times lists it as roughly the five blocks on either side of Canal Street between Allen Street and Essex Street. [2]

The term Dimes Square has become a metonym for a number of associated reactionary aesthetic movements centered in the area. Media associated with the area include the podcast Red Scare , pirate radio station Montez Press Radio, and defunct print newspaper The Drunken Canal . [3] An online Dimes zine named Byline was also established in 2023 by Gutes Guterman and Megan O'Sullivan. [4]

The neighborhood's name, a play on "Times Square", refers to Dimes, a restaurant located at the intersection of Canal Street and Division Street on the Lower East Side. According to Marisa Meltzer of The New York Times , the nickname has transitioned from a term used "jokingly" to one used "semi-seriously". [5]

Ben Smith cited the neighborhood's emergence as a lockdown-flouting cultural hub during the COVID-19 pandemic in a 2021 New York Times piece. [3] As the Covid-19 restrictions receded and the neighborhood became more mainstream, the associated transgressive art movement digitized and became increasingly prominent in online culture. [6] In 2022, Julia Yost, an editor at First Things , a conservative religious journal, argued in an op-ed in The New York Times that the neighborhood and associated podcasters such as Dasha Nekrasova of Red Scare are the center of a post-ironic revival of traditionalist Catholicism. [7]

The American indie-pop band Bleachers reference Dimes Square in their 2024 song "Jesus is Dead", from their self-titled album, Bleachers . [8]

In 2020, two blocks of Canal Street were closed off for an Open Streets permit, resulting in what Hannah Goldfield of The New Yorker describes as a "circus", "every night a music festival in the piazza." [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Dai, Serena (August 10, 2022). "Do You Need to Care About Dimes Square? Probably Not". Bon Appétit. Retrieved September 1, 2022.
  2. ↑ "An Extremely Detailed Map of NYC Neighborhoods". The New York Times . October 29, 2023. Archived from the original on June 27, 2023.
  3. 1 2 Smith, Ben (March 7, 2021). "They Had a Fun Pandemic. You Can Read About It in Print". The New York Times.
  4. ↑ Schacter, Cara (June 8, 2023). "They're Here to Save Indie Media". The New York Times . Archived from the original on June 27, 2023.
  5. ↑ Meltzer, Marisa (July 25, 2022). "Dimes Square Gets the Hotel It Deserves". The New York Times. Retrieved September 1, 2022.
  6. ↑ pourteaux (July 16, 2023). "I'm cute, I'm punk rock". Pourteaux Newsletter. Retrieved May 1, 2024.
  7. ↑ Yost, Julia. "New York's Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church". The New York Times .
  8. ↑ "Jack Antonoff: "I've never made anything hoping everyone would like…". The Face. September 29, 2023.
  9. ↑ Goldfield, Hannah (September 9, 2022). "Dimes Square, Post-Shark-Jump". The New Yorker Magazine. Retrieved September 26, 2024.


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