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A large square in Manhattan that has been cleaned up, renovated and pacified and has become a living space and an organic market.
In the early 1980s, it was still a den of drug dealers and junkies. Cleaned up, renovated and pacified, this large square now rubs shoulders with upmarket apartment blocks and many trendy restaurants. It has even become a living space in its own right, with hip-hop dancers, chess players, caricaturists, music groups and an organic market. The latter takes place every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 8am to 6pm. As a French person, you may be disappointed by the lack of fresh fruit and vegetables. Nevertheless, a few tents are worth a visit for their breads, jams and pastries. During the day, students, tourists, strollers and workers on a break come to warm up the benches of Union Square with a chat, watched over by the benevolent gaze of statues of Gandhi, Lafayette, Lincoln or Washington. To the south of the square, at the top of a building known as 1 Union Square South, you'll notice a huge 15-digit number constantly scrolling by. Most New Yorkers don't know what it means. The number is a work of art, The Metronome, dating from 1999. It's a digital clock. The first seven digits are simply the time of day (hours, minutes, seconds and tenths of seconds). The last six are, from the left, the number of tenths of seconds, seconds, minutes and hours remaining until midnight. The middle digit is random and changes every millisecond.
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