Article: The Faith Report: The life and times of Madison Square.(Brief Article)

Madison Square is located between 23rd and 26th Streets and Fifth and Madison Avenues. Madison Avenue, in fact, begins at 23rd Street and Broadway cuts across Fifth Avenue at the southwest corner of the Square. At that corner, the famous phrase, "23 Skidoo" was coined, for the breeze is brisk there. Many women in the old days found it difficult to cross, for they ran the risk of having their skirts blown upward and their ankles exposed.

In the beginning, the square was a marsh. It progressed to a potter's field, a military arsenal and parade ground, a reformatory, and after the House of Refuge for the Society for the Protection of Juvenile Delinquents burned down ...

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