As
Broadway marches north and west across Manhattan it
Chelsea
forms a series of squares
beginning with Union Square at 14th Street. The square itself hosts a popular
Greenmarket, and before Christmas, a crafts market. In this neighborhood
are some of the city's trendiest restaurants lining Park Avenue South up
to 23rd Street. Madison Square, the site of the original Madison Square
Garden, is dominated by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower and the Flatiron
Building
(20-stories and triangular). It was once the end of "ladies mile," the
city's most fashionable shopping district along Broadway and Sixth Avenue;
this area still has great shopping. To its east is Gramercy Park, a small,
fenced park acessible only to residents of its surrounding townhouses.
Theodore Roosevelt was born in this neighborhood.
