Greeley Square Park is a small, triangular, tree-lined, paved park in midtown Manhattan at 6th Avenue and West 34th Street, near the 33rd Street subway and PATH station. There are many things to see and do within a short walking distance:
- See Alexander Doyle’s bronze statue of Horace Greeley, founder and editor of the New York Tribune newspaper.
- Bring your coffee or grab something to eat from one of the nearby street vendors and take a seat in the triangular park.
- Go shopping in the Manhattan Mall
- See the now disused copper-clad Gimbels Bridge skybridge across West 32nd Street that once connected its Saks-34th Street department store on either side of the street
- Go shopping at Macy’s Herald Square
- See the Million Dollar Corner at Broadway and West 34th Street, a small corner plot purchased in an attempt to block Macy’s from becoming the largest store in the world.
- See the historic Hotel McAlpin building at Broadway and West 34th Street, now private apartments, it was the largest hotel in the world when it opened in 1912.
- Visit Tannen’s Magic hidden away on the sixth floor at 45 West 34th Street, billed as America’s oldest magic shop, and a must-see for anyone interested in magic and illusions.
- Visit the famous Empire State Building a block away on West 34th Street.
- Visit the Church of St Francis of Assisi on West 31st Street where FDNY Chaplain Father Mychal Judge was a Catholic priest until his death in the World Trade Center attack on 9/11.
