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Dimes Square

Dimes Square proper noun: a microneighborhood of Manhattan, roughly located between Chinatown and the Lower East Side neighborhoods of New York City.

Proper noun

Dimes Square

  1. (US, informal) A microneighborhood of Manhattan, roughly located between Chinatown and the Lower East Side neighborhoods of New York City.
    • The scene is often associated with “Dimes Square,” a downtown Manhattan neighborhood popular with a pandemic-weary Generation Z — or Zoomer — crowd, but it has spread across a network of podcasts and upstart publications.2022 August 9, Julia Yost, “New York’s Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2022
    • I imagined her saying she'd seen Tom out on a date, or kissing some young, hot barista, or maybe with his arms wrapped around a bartender or a waitress who worked in Dimes Square.2025, Sarah Hoover, The Motherload: Episodes from the Brink of Motherhood, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 295

Origin of Dimes Square

Blend of Dimes + Times Square, after the Dimes restaurant located at the intersection of Canal Street and Division Street.

Questions about Dimes Square

What does Dimes Square mean?
Dimes Square means a microneighborhood of Manhattan, roughly located between Chinatown and the Lower East Side neighborhoods of New York City.
What part of speech is Dimes Square?
Dimes Square is a proper noun.

Words near Dimes Square in the dictionary

  1. dimerous
  2. dimers
  3. dimery
  4. dimes
  5. dimes out
  6. Dimes Square
  7. dimesogenic
  8. dimeson
  9. dimesonic
  10. dimesons
  11. dimestore

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