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SoHo Square is a triangular park in lower Manhattan, New York City, which is bounded by Broome Street on the south, Clark Street on the west, the Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) on the east, and Spring Street on the north. The square is across Sixth Avenue from the western boundary of, but is not actually in, the SoHo neighbourhood, which is generally held to end at Sixth Avenue. The area in which the square is located is called by some "West SoHo" and by others Hudson Square.
The square was created when Sixth Avenue was extended south of Carmine Street, one of several to come into existence in that way. In keeping with the renaming of the avenue as the "Avenue of the Americas" in 1945, the square contains a larger-than-lifesize statue of General José Artigas, a Uruguayan independence leader and national hero, which is a second cast from a statue by Uruguyan sculptor José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín, which stands in front of the Uruguayan National Bank in Montevideo, where it has been since 1949. As of December 2016, the park's reconstruction is in the procurement phase.
The square is under the jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
The Dahesh Museum of Art, the Chelsea Career & Technical Education High School and the NYC iSchool are located on the square, as is the Here performance venue.