Everything about Verdi Square totally explained
Verdi Square is a small triangle of land enclosed by a railing, located on
Manhattan's
Upper West Side, between
72nd Street and 73rd Street on the south and north, and
Broadway and
Amsterdam Avenue on the west and east. The square fronts West 72nd Street on the north; across the street to the south lies
Sherman Square.
In its center stands a large monument to opera composer
Giuseppe Verdi. A statue of him stands at the top of it and statues of four of his most famous characters (
Falstaff, Leonora of
La forza del destino,
Aida and
Otello) are on the base below him. Flowers around the statue bloom in the spring and summer months.
An
IRT subway station lies under the square.
In the 1960s and 1970s the adjacent Verdi Square and Sherman Square were known by local users and dealers as "needle park." as depicted in
The Panic in Needle Park.
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