Foley Square is a city park situated in lower Manhattan on the site of the historic Five Corners neighborhood and named after a prominent Tammany Hall district leader and local saloon owner, Thomas F. “Big Tom” Foley (1852-1925). Manhattan Borough,highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... Five Points (or The Five Points) was a notorious slum centered on the intersection of Worth St. ... Tammany Hall was the name given to the Democratic Party political machine that dominated New York City politics from the mayoral victory of Fernando Wood in 1854 through the election of Fiorello LaGuardia in 1934. ...

Foley Square is dominated by its surrounding civic buildings, including the classic facades and colonnaded entrances of the 1933 built United States Courthouse, fronted by the Triumph of the Human Spirit Memorial by award-winning artist Lorenzo Pace, the New York County Supreme Court, the Church of St. Andrew, the Foley Square Courthouse (renamed Thurgood Marshall Federal Courthouse in 2003), the New York County Municipal Building, the Foley Square Federal Office Building and the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Office Building and Court of International Trade. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties: New York, Bronx, Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Dutchess, and Sullivan. ... New York County Supreme Court building at 60 Centre Street, from across Foley Square The Supreme Court of the State of New York is one of several New York State trial courts in which cases originate. ... Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the United States Supreme Court. ... The United States Court of International Trade is an Article III court of the U.S. Formerly known as the United States Customs Court, this court has juridictions over cases dealing with tariffs. ...

Also featured in the square are five bronze historical medallions, set flush into areas of the surrounding sidewalks, telling the history of the park and its surroundings, including one for the so-called 'Negro Burial Ground' (an 18th century African-American burial ground unearthed during construction of the square).[1] Assorted ancient bronze castings found as part of a cache, probably intended for recycling. ...

Other features

The Foley Square Greenmarket operates year round at the corner of Center Street between Worth and Pearl Streets, and offers baked goods as well as local farm picked fruits and vegetables which are guaranteed to have been harvested within three days of sale.

Because of its proximity to New York's Chinatown, every weekday morning the center island of the Foley Square is host to a large group of predominantly Chinese Manhattanites performing Tai Chi. Mott Street in Manhattans Chinatown in 2004. ... Manhattanite refers to a resident of the island of Manhattan in New York City, typically carrying connotations of snobbery and elitism. ... Tai Chi Chuan or Taijiquan (Chinese: 太極拳; pinyin: ; literally supreme ultimate fist), commonly known as Tai Chi, Tai Chi, or Taiji, is a nei chia (internal) Chinese martial art. ...

Foley Square is also the name of a television series that was aired by the American television broadcast network, CBS from 1985-1986. [2] CBS (formerly an acronym for Columbia Broadcasting System) is a major television network and radio broadcaster in the United States. ...

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Photographs of Foley Square buildings and surroundings.