Flatiron Public Plaza

You are standing at the intersection of Fifth Avenue, Broadway, and Twenty-Third Street, a spot known as the Flatiron Public Plaza. This land was not always a pedestrian destination; it began as a convergence of heavy traffic lanes where city planners carved out space to manage the intense flow of commuters. In two thousand eight, the city reclaimed these asphalt lanes from cars to create the two triangular plazas you see today.