Mulry Square is a triangular parking lot at the southwest corner of

Greenwich Avenue Greenwich Avenue, formerly Greenwich Lane, is a southeast-northwest avenue located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It extends from the intersection of 6th Avenue and 8th Street at its southeast end to it ...

and Seventh Avenue South in

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. It was once thought to be the site of a wedge-shaped diner that was the inspiration for

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's famous painting '' Nighthawks''. The parking lot's fencing supports Tiles for America, a September 11 memorial consisting of some 6,000 tiles created across the country. The square, which is owned by the

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, is named after Thomas M. Mulry, founder of the

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and devoted Vincentian. In 2007, the square was considered as a site for a New York City Subway ventilation plant.

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