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[[File:Dimes NYC.jpg|thumb|The restaurant [[Dimes (restaurant)|Dimes]], the neighborhood's namesake]]
[[File:Dimes NYC.jpg|thumb|The restaurant [[Dimes (restaurant)|Dimes]], the neighborhood's namesake]]


'''Dimes Square''' is a micro [[Neighborhoods in New York City|neighborhood of New York City]] consisting of five blocks located in the [[Chinatown, Manhattan|Chinatown]] and [[Lower East Side]] neighborhoods of [[Manhattan]] (which are actual neighborhoods).<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=McDermott |first=John |date=July 6, 2025 |title=Inside the 'Anti-Woke' Literary Scene Growing in L.A. |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/anti-woke-literary-scene-la-1235376357/ |access-date=February 9, 2026 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Taylor |first=Erin |date=August 16, 2022 |title=The Next Dimes Square Is Just Around the Corner |url=https://observer.com/2022/08/the-next-dimes-square-is-just-around-the-corner/ |access-date=February 9, 2026 |website=Observer |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=April 20, 2023 |title=Dimes Square Offline: My Experience with www.RachelOrmont.com |first=Natasha |last=Piner |url=https://www.filmmattersmagazine.com/2023/04/20/dimes-square-offline-my-experience-with-www-rachelormont-com-by-natasha-piner/ |access-date=February 9, 2026 |magazine=Film Matters |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Dai |first1=Serena |title=Do You Need to Care About Dimes Square? Probably Not |url=https://www.bonappetit.com/story/dimes-square-restaurants-nyc |access-date=September 1, 2022 |work=[[Bon Appétit]]|date=August 10, 2022}}</ref> The exact perimeter and nature of the neighborhood is debated, though survey data from ''[[The New York Times]]'' lists it as roughly the five blocks on either side of [[Canal Street (Manhattan)|Canal Street]] between [[Allen Street]] and [[Essex Street]].<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Buchanan |first1=Larry |last2=Katz |first2=Josh |last3=Taylor |first3=Rumsey |last4=Washington |first4=Eve |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/upshot/extremely-detailed-nyc-neighborhood-map.html |title=An Extremely Detailed Map of New York City Neighborhoods |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 29, 2023 |url-access=limited}}</ref>
'''Dimes Square''' is a [[Neighborhoods in New York City|neighborhood of New York City]] consisting of five square blocks located in the [[Chinatown, Manhattan|Chinatown]] and [[Lower East Side]] neighborhoods of [[Manhattan]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=McDermott |first=John |date=July 6, 2025 |title=Inside the 'Anti-Woke' Literary Scene Growing in L.A. |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/anti-woke-literary-scene-la-1235376357/ |access-date=February 9, 2026 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Taylor |first=Erin |date=August 16, 2022 |title=The Next Dimes Square Is Just Around the Corner |url=https://observer.com/2022/08/the-next-dimes-square-is-just-around-the-corner/ |access-date=February 9, 2026 |website=Observer |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=April 20, 2023 |title=Dimes Square Offline: My Experience with www.RachelOrmont.com |first=Natasha |last=Piner |url=https://www.filmmattersmagazine.com/2023/04/20/dimes-square-offline-my-experience-with-www-rachelormont-com-by-natasha-piner/ |access-date=February 9, 2026 |magazine=Film Matters |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Dai |first1=Serena |title=Do You Need to Care About Dimes Square? Probably Not |url=https://www.bonappetit.com/story/dimes-square-restaurants-nyc |access-date=September 1, 2022 |work=[[Bon Appétit]]|date=August 10, 2022}}</ref> The exact perimeter and nature of the neighborhood is debated, though survey data from ''[[The New York Times]]'' lists it as roughly the five blocks on either side of [[Canal Street (Manhattan)|Canal Street]] between [[Allen Street]] and [[Essex Street]].<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Buchanan |first1=Larry |last2=Katz |first2=Josh |last3=Taylor |first3=Rumsey |last4=Washington |first4=Eve |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/upshot/extremely-detailed-nyc-neighborhood-map.html |title=An Extremely Detailed Map of New York City Neighborhoods |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 29, 2023 |url-access=limited}}</ref>


== Etymology ==
== Etymology ==
The neighborhood's name, a play on "[[Times Square]]", refers to [[Dimes (restaurant)|Dimes]], a restaurant located at the intersection of Canal Street and [[Division Street (Manhattan)|Division Street]] on the Lower East Side. According to [[Marisa Meltzer]] of ''The New York Times'', the nickname has transitioned from a term used "jokingly" to one used "semi-seriously".<ref>{{cite news|last=Meltzer|first=Marisa|author-link=Marisa Meltzer|title=Dimes Square Gets the Hotel It Deserves |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/style/dimes-square-nine-orchard-hotel.html |access-date=September 1, 2022 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 25, 2022}}</ref> The term ''Dimes Square'' became a [[metonym]] for a number of associated [[reactionary]] aesthetic movements centered in the area.<ref name="Yost" /> It was originally popularized by [[Dasha Nekrasova]] and [[Anna Khachiyan]] of the podcast ''[[Red Scare (podcast)|Red Scare]]'' who stemmed from the [[dirtbag left]] movement.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Bevilacqua|first=Leonardo|date=24 June 2024|title=Rebels with a religious cause: Meet New York’s avant-garde conservatives|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2024/0624/New-York-conservative-avant-garde-counterculture-religion|access-date=2026-05-08|work=[[Christian Science Monitor]]|issn=0882-7729}}</ref>
The neighborhood's name, a play on "[[Times Square]]", refers to [[Dimes (restaurant)|Dimes]], a restaurant located at the intersection of Canal Street and [[Division Street (Manhattan)|Division Street]] on the Lower East Side. According to [[Marisa Meltzer]] of ''The New York Times'', the nickname has transitioned from a term used "jokingly" to one used "semi-seriously".<ref>{{cite news|last=Meltzer|first=Marisa|author-link=Marisa Meltzer|title=Dimes Square Gets the Hotel It Deserves |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/style/dimes-square-nine-orchard-hotel.html |access-date=September 1, 2022 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 25, 2022}}</ref> The term ''Dimes Square'' became a [[metonym]] for a number of associated [[reactionary]] aesthetic movements centered in the area.<ref name="Yost">{{Cite news|last=Yost |first=Julia |title=New York's Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 9, 2022 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/opinion/nyc-catholicism-dimes-square-religion.html}}</ref> It was originally popularized by [[Dasha Nekrasova]] and [[Anna Khachiyan]] of the podcast ''[[Red Scare (podcast)|Red Scare]]'' who stemmed from the [[dirtbag left]] movement.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Bevilacqua|first=Leonardo|date=June 24, 2024|title=Rebels with a religious cause: Meet New York's avant-garde conservatives|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2024/0624/New-York-conservative-avant-garde-counterculture-religion|access-date=May 8, 2026|work=[[Christian Science Monitor]]|issn=0882-7729}}</ref>
== History ==
== History ==
[[Ben Smith (journalist)|Ben Smith]] cited the neighborhood's emergence as a [[Stay-at-home order|lockdown]]-flouting cultural hub during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] in a 2021 ''New York Times'' piece.<ref name="smith">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/07/business/media/the-drunken-canal-media-nyc.html|title=They Had a Fun Pandemic. You Can Read About It in Print|first=Ben|last=Smith|author-link=Ben Smith (journalist)|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 7, 2021}}</ref> As the COVID-19 restrictions receded and the neighborhood became more mainstream, the associated transgressive art movement digitized and became increasingly prominent in online culture.<ref>{{cite news|title=I'm cute, I'm punk rock |url=https://pourteaux.substack.com/p/im-cute-im-punk-rock |work=Pourteaux Newsletter |access-date=May 1, 2024 |date=July 16, 2023}}</ref> Media associated with the area include the podcast ''[[Red Scare (podcast)|Red Scare]]'', pirate radio station [[Montez Press Radio]], and defunct print newspaper ''[[The Drunken Canal]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harrison |first=Will |date=May 24, 2022 |title=Escape from Dimes Square |url=https://thebaffler.com/latest/escape-from-dimes-square-harrison |access-date=February 8, 2025 |website=The Baffler |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="smith" /> An online Dimes zine named ''[[Byline (magazine)|Byline]]'' was established in 2023 by Gutes Guterman and Megan O'Sullivan.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schacter |first=Cara |date=June 8, 2023 |title=They're Here to Save Indie Media |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/style/the-drunken-canal-byline-media.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608180332/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/style/the-drunken-canal-byline-media.html |archive-date=June 8, 2023 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
In 2020, two blocks of Canal Street were closed off for an [[Open Streets]] permit, resulting in what Hannah Goldfield of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' described as a "circus", "every night a music festival in the piazza."<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Goldfield |first1=Hannah |date=September 9, 2022 |title=Dimes Square, Post-Shark-Jump |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/19/dimes-square-post-shark-jump |access-date=September 26, 2024 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]]}}</ref> [[Ben Smith (journalist)|Ben Smith]] cited the neighborhood's emergence as a [[Stay-at-home order|lockdown]]-flouting cultural hub during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] in a 2021 ''New York Times'' piece.<ref name="smith">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/07/business/media/the-drunken-canal-media-nyc.html|title=They Had a Fun Pandemic. You Can Read About It in Print|first=Ben|last=Smith|author-link=Ben Smith (journalist)|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 7, 2021}}</ref> As COVID-19 restrictions receded, the associated transgressive art movement digitized and became increasingly prominent in online culture.{{Citation needed|date=October 2026}}


In 2022, Julia Yost, an editor at ''[[First Things]]'', a [[conservative]] religious journal, argued in an op-ed in ''The New York Times'' that the neighborhood and associated podcasters such as [[Dasha Nekrasova]] of ''Red Scare'' are the center of a [[post-ironic]] revival of [[traditionalist Catholicism]].<ref name="Yost">{{Cite news|last=Yost |first=Julia |title=New York's Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 9, 2022 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/opinion/nyc-catholicism-dimes-square-religion.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Davenport |first=Emily |date=July 26, 2024 |title=NYC's 'One Man Army' Film Series Makes Waves |url=https://www.amny.com/entertainment/things-to-do/short-films-new-york-city-one-man-army/ |website=[[amNewYork]]}}</ref><ref name=":3" />
In 2024, ''[[Dazed]]'' magazine referred to Dimes Square as a meme-able micro-neighborhood.<ref>{{Cite web |first=Günseli |last=Yalcinkaya |date=October 4, 2022 |title=Memes, minions and meta-irony: The rise of post-internet fashion |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/56877/1/memes-minions-and-meta-irony-the-rise-of-post-internet-fashion-praying-ogbff |access-date=February 12, 2026 |website=Dazed |language=en}}</ref> The American [[pop rock]] band [[Bleachers (band)|Bleachers]] referenced Dimes Square in their 2024 song "[[Jesus Is Dead]]".<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Shaad |last=D'Souza |date=September 29, 2023 |title=Jack Antonoff: 'I've never made anything hoping everyone would like...' |url=https://theface.com/music/jack-antonoff-interview-taylor-swift-bleachers-lana-del-rey-dirty-hit |magazine=[[The Face (magazine)|The Face]]}}</ref>


Following the June 16, 2026 seizure<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sanli|first=Lara |last2=Church | first2=Samuel A. |date=June 17, 2026 |title=NYC Greek Eatery Kiki’s Seized for Failure to Pay $1 Million Tax |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-17/kiki-s-nyc-restaurant-seized-after-failing-to-pay-1-million-tax?embedded-checkout=true |url-status=live |work=Bloomberg News}}</ref> of KiKi's, a popular Dimes Square restaurant, by the [[New York State Department of Taxation and Finance]], neighborhood regulars began debating whether the Dimes Square scene was ending.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2026-06-18 |title=Kiki's Is Seized, Long Live Kiki's |url=https://hellgatenyc.com/kikis-is-seized-long-live-kikis/ |access-date=2026-06-19 |website=Hell Gate |language=en}}</ref>
Following the June 2026 seizure of KiKi's, a Dimes Square restaurant, for failure to pay taxes,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sanli|first=Lara |last2=Church | first2=Samuel A. |date=June 17, 2026 |title=NYC Greek Eatery Kiki's Seized for Failure to Pay $1 Million Tax |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-17/kiki-s-nyc-restaurant-seized-after-failing-to-pay-1-million-tax |work=Bloomberg News}}</ref> neighborhood regulars began debating whether the Dimes Square scene was ending.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 18, 2026 |title=Kiki's Is Seized, Long Live Kiki's |url=https://hellgatenyc.com/kikis-is-seized-long-live-kikis/ |access-date=June 19, 2026 |website=Hell Gate |language=en}}</ref>


== Art scene ==
== Art scene ==
=== Origins ===
In 2022, Julia Yost argued in a ''The New York Times'' op-ed that the neighborhood and its associated podcasters such as [[Dasha Nekrasova]] of ''Red Scare'' were the center of a [[post-ironic]] revival of [[traditionalist Catholicism]].<ref name="Yost" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Davenport |first=Emily |date=July 26, 2024 |title=NYC's 'One Man Army' Film Series Makes Waves |url=https://www.amny.com/entertainment/things-to-do/short-films-new-york-city-one-man-army/ |website=[[amNewYork]]}}</ref><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":1" /> According to Nick Dove in [[Vice Media|''Vice'']], scene participants "ranged from anti-identitarian leftism to outright fascism, a motley crew of outside dissenters to then-ascendant hyper-liberalism".<ref name="Dove1">{{Cite web |last=Dove |first=Nick |date=2026-05-08 |title=The Last Days of Dimes Square (For Real This Time) |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-last-days-of-dimes-square-for-real-this-time/ |access-date=2026-10-25 |website=VICE |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2020, two blocks of Canal Street were closed off for an [[Open Streets]] permit, resulting in what Hannah Goldfield of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' described as a "circus", "every night a music festival in the piazza."<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Goldfield |first1=Hannah |date=September 9, 2022 |title=Dimes Square, Post-Shark-Jump |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/19/dimes-square-post-shark-jump |access-date=September 26, 2024 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]]}}</ref> In 2023, the ''[[NME]]'' cited several musicians associated with Dimes Square as "reinvigorating NYC's music scene".<ref name=":1" /> Artists included [[The Dare (musician)|the Dare]], [[the Hellp]], [[The Life (band)|the Life]], [[Been Stellar]], [[Blaketheman1000]],<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Buford |first=Jayson |date=November 3, 2022 |title=Is 'Dimes Square Rapper' Blaketheman1000 Actually Sort of Good? |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/dimes-square-rapper-blaketheman1000-profile-1234623584/ |access-date=March 22, 2026 |website=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref> Catcher, Club Eat, [[Frost Children]], [[Hello Mary]], [[Model/Actriz]], Sid Simons, Shallowhalo and [[Strange Ranger]].<ref name=":1" /> The American [[pop rock]] band [[Bleachers (band)|Bleachers]] reference Dimes Square in their 2024 song "[[Jesus Is Dead]]".<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Shaad |last=D'Souza |date=September 29, 2023 |title=Jack Antonoff: 'I've never made anything hoping everyone would like...' |url=https://theface.com/music/jack-antonoff-interview-taylor-swift-bleachers-lana-del-rey-dirty-hit |magazine=[[The Face (magazine)|The Face]]}}</ref>


In 2024, ''[[Dazed]]'' magazine referred to Dimes Square as a meme-able micro-neighborhood.<ref>{{Cite web |first=Günseli |last=Yalcinkaya |date=October 4, 2022 |title=Memes, minions and meta-irony: The rise of post-internet fashion |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/56877/1/memes-minions-and-meta-irony-the-rise-of-post-internet-fashion-praying-ogbff |access-date=February 12, 2026 |website=Dazed |language=en}}</ref>
Media associated with the area include the podcast ''[[Red Scare (podcast)|Red Scare]]'', pirate radio station [[Montez Press Radio]], and defunct print newspaper ''[[The Drunken Canal]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harrison |first=Will |date=May 24, 2022 |title=Escape from Dimes Square |url=https://thebaffler.com/latest/escape-from-dimes-square-harrison |access-date=February 8, 2025 |website=The Baffler |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="smith" /> An online Dimes zine named ''[[Byline (magazine)|Byline]]'' was established in 2023 by Gutes Guterman and Megan O'Sullivan.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schacter |first=Cara |date=June 8, 2023 |title=They're Here to Save Indie Media |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/style/the-drunken-canal-byline-media.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608180332/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/style/the-drunken-canal-byline-media.html |archive-date=June 8, 2023 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> In 2023, the ''[[NME]]'' cited several musicians associated with Dimes Square as "reinvigorating NYC's music scene", including [[The Dare (musician)|The Dare]], [[The Hellp]], [[Been Stellar]], [[Frost Children]], [[Hello Mary]], [[Model/Actriz]], and [[Strange Ranger]].<ref name=":1" />


=== Sovereign House ===
Operating between 2022 and 2025, Sovereign House was a cultural events venue associated with the scene, owned by [[Financial technology|fintech]] co-founder Nick Allen.<ref name=":3" /><ref name="Boguslaw1">{{Cite web |last=Boguslaw |first=Daniel |date=January 24, 2025 |title=At NYC's MAGA Clubhouse, Libertarians Are Left in the Cold |url=https://prospect.org/2025/01/24/2025-01-24-nyc-maga-clubhouse-libertarians-left-in-the-cold/ |website=[[The American Prospect]]}}</ref><ref name="Taylor1">{{Cite web |last=Taylor |first=Magdalene |date=November 6, 2024 |title=Crushing White Claws With MAGA Hipsters on Election Night in Dimes Square |url=https://www.gq.com/story/election-night-in-dimes-square |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241106210648/https://www.gq.com/story/election-night-in-dimes-square |archive-date=November 6, 2024 |access-date=May 21, 2025 |website=[[GQ]] |language=en-US }}</ref><ref name="Green1">{{Cite news |last=Green |first=Emma |date=2025-12-16 |title=The Party Politics of Sovereign House |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-party-politics-of-sovereign-house |access-date=2026-10-25 |work=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> In 2024, Magdalene Taylor described it in ''[[GQ]]'' as the "last bastion" of Dimes Square,<ref name="Taylor1" /> and ''[[City Journal]]'' described it in 2025 as "New York's premier right-wing gathering spot".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Soropoulos |first=Kerry |date=May 2, 2025 |title=Tech Founders Bet on New York |url=https://www.city-journal.org/article/innovation-new-york-city-deep-tech-week-entrepreneurs-vc-firms |access-date=January 1, 2026 |website=[[City Journal]]}}</ref> According to ''[[The New Yorker]]'', its speakers were "heterodox, and sometimes controversial".<ref name="Green1" /> It hosted events including an [[Elena Velez]] presentation,<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Kennedy |first1=Joan |last2=Ap |first2=Tiffany |title=Elena Velez Brings Dimes Square, and Its Controversial Politics, to Fashion Week |url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/fashion-week/elena-velez-brings-dimes-square-and-its-controversial-politics-to-fashion-week/ |website=[[The Business of Fashion]] |access-date=February 23, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240212060323/https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/fashion-week/elena-velez-brings-dimes-square-and-its-controversial-politics-to-fashion-week/ |archive-date=February 12, 2024 |language=en |date=February 12, 2024 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription}}</ref> a play by [[Matthew Gasda]],<ref name="Green1" /> a [[Department of Government Efficiency|DOGE]] appreciation party,<ref name="Green1" /> and events for publications such as ''[[The Point (magazine)|The Point]]'' and ''[[Heavy Traffic (magazine)|Heavy Traffic]].''<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |last=Kailath |first=Ryan |date=January 17, 2025 |title=Some young NYC conservatives say Trump resurgence makes it easier to speak their minds |url=https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/some-young-nyc-conservatives-say-trump-resurgence-makes-it-easier-to-speak-their-minds |website=[[Gothamist]]}}</ref> Guest speakers included [[Benjamin R. Teitelbaum]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pogue |first=James |date=October 9, 2024 |title=Steve Bannon Is Out of Jail, and He Has a Plan for Trump's Next Term |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/steve-bannon-nato-world-order |website=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]}}</ref> [[Norman Finkelstein]],<ref name="Green1" /> and far-right figures such as [[Curtis Yarvin]],<ref name="Green1" /> [[Raw Egg Nationalist]],<ref name="Boguslaw1" /> and [[Steve Sailer]], a proponent of [[scientific racism]].<ref name=":3" /> Sovereign House closed after its lease expired in Spring 2025.<ref name="Green1" />
Sovereign House is a cultural events venue located on the [[Lower East Side]] of [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |last=Kailath |first=Ryan |date=January 17, 2025 |title=Some young NYC conservatives say Trump resurgence makes it easier to speak their minds |url=https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/some-young-nyc-conservatives-say-trump-resurgence-makes-it-easier-to-speak-their-minds |website=[[Gothamist]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Taylor |first=Magdalene |date=November 6, 2024 |title=Crushing White Claws With MAGA Hipsters on Election Night in Dimes Square |url=https://www.gq.com/story/election-night-in-dimes-square |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241106210648/https://www.gq.com/story/election-night-in-dimes-square |archive-date=November 6, 2024 |access-date=May 21, 2025 |website=[[GQ]] |language=en-US }}</ref> Opened in late 2022, the venue occupies a street-level space on [[East Broadway (Manhattan)|East Broadway]], in the area known as Dimes Square. It was founded by Nick Allen as a salon for downtown artists and writers.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Boguslaw |first=Daniel |date=January 24, 2025 |title=At NYC's MAGA Clubhouse, Libertarians Are Left in the Cold |url=https://prospect.org/2025/01/24/2025-01-24-nyc-maga-clubhouse-libertarians-left-in-the-cold/ |website=[[The American Prospect]]}}</ref>


Sovereign House's space is used for magazine launch parties, [[experimental theater]], film screenings, and discussions on art and literature.<ref name="csmonitor">{{Cite news |last=Bevilacqua |first=Leonardo |date=June 24, 2024 |title=Rebels with a religious cause: Meet New York's avant-garde conservatives |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2024/0624/New-York-conservative-avant-garde-counterculture-religion |access-date=May 20, 2025 |work=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |issn=0882-7729}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Davenport |first=Emily |date=February 21, 2025 |title=Animated Film 'Interface' Debuts in Lower Manhattan |url=https://www.amny.com/entertainment/animated-film-interface-director-qa-lower-east-side/ |website=[[amNewYork]] }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Soropoulos |first=Kerry |date=May 2, 2025 |title=Tech Founders Bet on New York |url=https://www.city-journal.org/article/innovation-new-york-city-deep-tech-week-entrepreneurs-vc-firms |access-date=January 1, 2026 |website=[[City Journal]]}}</ref> Sovereign House has hosted cultural events, such as a production of [[Matthew Gasda]]'s play ''Zoomers'' and an [[Elena Velez]] [[Fashion Week]] presentation linking Dimes Square's cultural politics to the fashion world.<ref name="csmonitor" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Kennedy |first1=Joan |last2=Ap |first2=Tiffany |title=Elena Velez Brings Dimes Square, and Its Controversial Politics, to Fashion Week |url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/fashion-week/elena-velez-brings-dimes-square-and-its-controversial-politics-to-fashion-week/ |website=[[The Business of Fashion]] |access-date=February 23, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240212060323/https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/fashion-week/elena-velez-brings-dimes-square-and-its-controversial-politics-to-fashion-week/ |archive-date=February 12, 2024 |language=en |date=February 12, 2024 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription}}</ref> It has supported magazines and journals through launches and panel events for publications including ''[[The Point (magazine)|The Point]]'' and ''[[Heavy Traffic (magazine)|Heavy Traffic]]'',<ref name="auto" /> and has hosted author talks and lectures by figures such as [[Benjamin R. Teitelbaum]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pogue |first=James |date=October 9, 2024 |title=Steve Bannon Is Out of Jail, and He Has a Plan for Trump's Next Term |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/steve-bannon-nato-world-order |website=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]}}</ref> and [[Norman Finkelstein]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/twelve-years-a-watchman |title=Twelve Years a Watchman |first=Todd |last=Seavey |website=Splice Today |date=November 1, 2023}}</ref> It has also hosted figures such as [[Dasha Nekrasova]], as well as recurring meetings of the New York Philosophy Club, events for the [[New York Comedy Festival]].<ref name="csmonitor" />
Matthew Gasda's 2026 play ''The Last Days of Downtown'' was described in ''Vice'' as a "[[Autopsy|post-mortem]]" for the Dimes Square scene.<ref name="Dove1" /> According to [[Ross Barkan]], [[Zohran Mamdani]]'s [[2025 New York City mayoral election|election as Mayor of New York City in 2025]] marked a change in political mood contributing to the decline of Dimes Square.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barkan |first=Ross |date=2025-11-26 |title=Did Zohran Kill Dimes Square? |url=https://rosselliotbarkan.com/p/did-zohran-kill-dimes-square |access-date=2026-10-25 |website=rosselliotbarkan.com |language=en}}</ref>


== Notable people ==
== Notable people ==
* [[Betsey Brown (filmmaker)|Betsey Brown]], actress and director<ref name=":0" />  
* [[Betsey Brown (filmmaker)|Betsey Brown]], actress and director<ref name=":0" />  
* [[Blake Ortiz-Goldberg|Blaketheman1000]], pop/indie artist and producer<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />
* [[Blake Ortiz-Goldberg|Blaketheman1000]], pop/indie artist and producer<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Buford |first=Jayson |date=November 3, 2022 |title=Is 'Dimes Square Rapper' Blaketheman1000 Actually Sort of Good? |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/dimes-square-rapper-blaketheman1000-profile-1234623584/ |access-date=March 22, 2026 |website=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Madeline Cash]], author and co-founder of ''Forever Magazine''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Boyle |first=J. Arthur |date=24 July 2023 |title=The Right-Wing Avant-Garde in American Fiction |url=https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/the-right-wing-avant-garde-in-american-fiction |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251010183953/https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/the-right-wing-avant-garde-in-american-fiction |archive-date=2025-10-10 |access-date=2026-05-07 |website=Verso |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Madeline Cash]], author and co-founder of ''Forever Magazine''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Boyle |first=J. Arthur |date=July 24, 2023 |title=The Right-Wing Avant-Garde in American Fiction |url=https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/the-right-wing-avant-garde-in-american-fiction |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251010183953/https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/the-right-wing-avant-garde-in-american-fiction |archive-date=October 10, 2025 |access-date=May 7, 2026 |website=Verso |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Jordan Castro]], writer and editor<ref name="csmonitor" />
* [[Jordan Castro]], writer and editor<ref name=":3" />
* [[The Dare (musician)|The Dare]], singer, DJ, and music producer<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=May 15, 2023 |title=Dimes Square: meet the new artists reinvigorating NYC's music scene |url=https://www.nme.com/features/music-features/dimes-square-new-artists-new-york-city-bands-2023-radar-3443102 |access-date=December 14, 2024 |website=[[NME]]}}</ref>
* [[The Dare (musician)|The Dare]], singer, DJ, and music producer<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=May 15, 2023 |title=Dimes Square: meet the new artists reinvigorating NYC's music scene |url=https://www.nme.com/features/music-features/dimes-square-new-artists-new-york-city-bands-2023-radar-3443102 |access-date=December 14, 2024 |website=[[NME]]}}</ref>
* [[Anna Khachiyan]], cultural critic, writer, and co-host of the ''[[Red Scare (podcast)|Red Scare]]'' podcast<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=August 11, 2022 |title=How Dimes Square Became the New York City Neighborhood We Love to Hate|author=Helen Holmes|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-dimes-square-became-the-new-york-neighborhood-we-love-to-hate/ |access-date=December 14, 2024 |website=[[The Daily Beast]]}}</ref>
* [[Anna Khachiyan]], cultural critic, writer, and co-host of the ''[[Red Scare (podcast)|Red Scare]]'' podcast<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=August 11, 2022 |title=How Dimes Square Became the New York City Neighborhood We Love to Hate|author=Helen Holmes|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-dimes-square-became-the-new-york-neighborhood-we-love-to-hate/ |access-date=December 14, 2024 |website=[[The Daily Beast]]}}</ref>

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The restaurant Dimes, the neighborhood's namesake

Dimes Square is a neighborhood of New York City consisting of five square blocks located in the Chinatown and Lower East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan.[1][2][3][4] The exact perimeter and nature of the neighborhood is debated, though survey data from The New York Times lists it as roughly the five blocks on either side of Canal Street between Allen Street and Essex Street.[5]

Etymology

The neighborhood's name, a play on "Times Square", refers to Dimes, a restaurant located at the intersection of Canal Street and Division Street on the Lower East Side. According to Marisa Meltzer of The New York Times, the nickname has transitioned from a term used "jokingly" to one used "semi-seriously".[6] The term Dimes Square became a metonym for a number of associated reactionary aesthetic movements centered in the area.[7] It was originally popularized by Dasha Nekrasova and Anna Khachiyan of the podcast Red Scare who stemmed from the dirtbag left movement.[8]

History

In 2020, two blocks of Canal Street were closed off for an Open Streets permit, resulting in what Hannah Goldfield of The New Yorker described as a "circus", "every night a music festival in the piazza."[9] Ben Smith cited the neighborhood's emergence as a lockdown-flouting cultural hub during the COVID-19 pandemic in a 2021 New York Times piece.[10] As COVID-19 restrictions receded, the associated transgressive art movement digitized and became increasingly prominent in online culture.

In 2024, Dazed magazine referred to Dimes Square as a meme-able micro-neighborhood.[11] The American pop rock band Bleachers referenced Dimes Square in their 2024 song "Jesus Is Dead".[12]

Following the June 2026 seizure of KiKi's, a Dimes Square restaurant, for failure to pay taxes,[13] neighborhood regulars began debating whether the Dimes Square scene was ending.[14]

Art scene

In 2022, Julia Yost argued in a The New York Times op-ed that the neighborhood and its associated podcasters such as Dasha Nekrasova of Red Scare were the center of a post-ironic revival of traditionalist Catholicism.[7][15][8][16] According to Nick Dove in Vice, scene participants "ranged from anti-identitarian leftism to outright fascism, a motley crew of outside dissenters to then-ascendant hyper-liberalism".[17]

Media associated with the area include the podcast Red Scare, pirate radio station Montez Press Radio, and defunct print newspaper The Drunken Canal.[18][10] An online Dimes zine named Byline was established in 2023 by Gutes Guterman and Megan O'Sullivan.[19] In 2023, the NME cited several musicians associated with Dimes Square as "reinvigorating NYC's music scene", including The Dare, The Hellp, Been Stellar, Frost Children, Hello Mary, Model/Actriz, and Strange Ranger.[16]

Operating between 2022 and 2025, Sovereign House was a cultural events venue associated with the scene, owned by fintech co-founder Nick Allen.[8][20][21][22] In 2024, Magdalene Taylor described it in GQ as the "last bastion" of Dimes Square,[21] and City Journal described it in 2025 as "New York's premier right-wing gathering spot".[23] According to The New Yorker, its speakers were "heterodox, and sometimes controversial".[22] It hosted events including an Elena Velez presentation,[8][24] a play by Matthew Gasda,[22] a DOGE appreciation party,[22] and events for publications such as The Point and Heavy Traffic.[25] Guest speakers included Benjamin R. Teitelbaum,[26] Norman Finkelstein,[22] and far-right figures such as Curtis Yarvin,[22] Raw Egg Nationalist,[20] and Steve Sailer, a proponent of scientific racism.[8] Sovereign House closed after its lease expired in Spring 2025.[22]

Matthew Gasda's 2026 play The Last Days of Downtown was described in Vice as a "post-mortem" for the Dimes Square scene.[17] According to Ross Barkan, Zohran Mamdani's election as Mayor of New York City in 2025 marked a change in political mood contributing to the decline of Dimes Square.[27]

Notable people

See also

References

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  4. ↑ Dai, Serena (August 10, 2022). "Do You Need to Care About Dimes Square? Probably Not". Bon Appétit. https://www.bonappetit.com/story/dimes-square-restaurants-nyc. 
  5. ↑ Buchanan, Larry; Katz, Josh; Taylor, Rumsey; Washington, Eve (October 29, 2023). "An Extremely Detailed Map of New York City Neighborhoods". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/upshot/extremely-detailed-nyc-neighborhood-map.html. 
  6. ↑ Meltzer, Marisa (July 25, 2022). "Dimes Square Gets the Hotel It Deserves". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/style/dimes-square-nine-orchard-hotel.html. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Yost, Julia (August 9, 2022). "New York's Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/opinion/nyc-catholicism-dimes-square-religion.html. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 Bevilacqua, Leonardo (June 24, 2024). "Rebels with a religious cause: Meet New York's avant-garde conservatives". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2024/0624/New-York-conservative-avant-garde-counterculture-religion. 
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  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Smith, Ben (March 7, 2021). "They Had a Fun Pandemic. You Can Read About It in Print". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/07/business/media/the-drunken-canal-media-nyc.html. 
  11. ↑ Yalcinkaya, Günseli (October 4, 2022). "Memes, minions and meta-irony: The rise of post-internet fashion" (in en). https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/56877/1/memes-minions-and-meta-irony-the-rise-of-post-internet-fashion-praying-ogbff. 
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  13. ↑ Sanli, Lara; Church, Samuel A. (June 17, 2026). "NYC Greek Eatery Kiki's Seized for Failure to Pay $1 Million Tax". Bloomberg News. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-17/kiki-s-nyc-restaurant-seized-after-failing-to-pay-1-million-tax. 
  14. ↑ "Kiki's Is Seized, Long Live Kiki's" (in en). June 18, 2026. https://hellgatenyc.com/kikis-is-seized-long-live-kikis/. 
  15. ↑ Davenport, Emily (July 26, 2024). "NYC's 'One Man Army' Film Series Makes Waves". https://www.amny.com/entertainment/things-to-do/short-films-new-york-city-one-man-army/. 
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 "Dimes Square: meet the new artists reinvigorating NYC's music scene". May 15, 2023. https://www.nme.com/features/music-features/dimes-square-new-artists-new-york-city-bands-2023-radar-3443102. 
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Dove, Nick (2026-05-08). "The Last Days of Dimes Square (For Real This Time)" (in en-US). https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-last-days-of-dimes-square-for-real-this-time/. 
  18. ↑ Harrison, Will (May 24, 2022). "Escape from Dimes Square" (in en-US). https://thebaffler.com/latest/escape-from-dimes-square-harrison. 
  19. ↑ Schacter, Cara (June 8, 2023). "They're Here to Save Indie Media". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/style/the-drunken-canal-byline-media.html. 
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Boguslaw, Daniel (January 24, 2025). "At NYC's MAGA Clubhouse, Libertarians Are Left in the Cold". https://prospect.org/2025/01/24/2025-01-24-nyc-maga-clubhouse-libertarians-left-in-the-cold/. 
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Taylor, Magdalene (November 6, 2024). "Crushing White Claws With MAGA Hipsters on Election Night in Dimes Square" (in en-US). https://www.gq.com/story/election-night-in-dimes-square. 
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 22.5 22.6 Green, Emma (2025-12-16). "The Party Politics of Sovereign House" (in en-US). The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-party-politics-of-sovereign-house. 
  23. ↑ Soropoulos, Kerry (May 2, 2025). "Tech Founders Bet on New York". https://www.city-journal.org/article/innovation-new-york-city-deep-tech-week-entrepreneurs-vc-firms. 
  24. ↑ Kennedy, Joan; Ap, Tiffany (February 12, 2024). "Elena Velez Brings Dimes Square, and Its Controversial Politics, to Fashion Week" (in en). https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/fashion-week/elena-velez-brings-dimes-square-and-its-controversial-politics-to-fashion-week/. 
  25. ↑ Kailath, Ryan (January 17, 2025). "Some young NYC conservatives say Trump resurgence makes it easier to speak their minds". https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/some-young-nyc-conservatives-say-trump-resurgence-makes-it-easier-to-speak-their-minds. 
  26. ↑ Pogue, James (October 9, 2024). "Steve Bannon Is Out of Jail, and He Has a Plan for Trump's Next Term". https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/steve-bannon-nato-world-order. 
  27. ↑ Barkan, Ross (2025-11-26). "Did Zohran Kill Dimes Square?" (in en). https://rosselliotbarkan.com/p/did-zohran-kill-dimes-square. 
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 Helen Holmes (August 11, 2022). "How Dimes Square Became the New York City Neighborhood We Love to Hate". https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-dimes-square-became-the-new-york-neighborhood-we-love-to-hate/. 
  29. ↑ Buford, Jayson (November 3, 2022). "Is 'Dimes Square Rapper' Blaketheman1000 Actually Sort of Good?" (in en-US). https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/dimes-square-rapper-blaketheman1000-profile-1234623584/. 
  30. ↑ Boyle, J. Arthur (July 24, 2023). "The Right-Wing Avant-Garde in American Fiction" (in en). https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/the-right-wing-avant-garde-in-american-fiction. 
  31. ↑ Colyar, Brock (May 3, 2024). "Her First Book; Six hours in Dimes Square with the 26-year-old author and niche icon Honor Levy.". The Cut. https://www.thecut.com/article/honor-levy-my-first-book-dimes-square-interview.html. "Levy was one of the niche icons of Dimes Square, the scene that bloomed on the little patch of the Lower East Side where we are currently drinking Diet Cokes." 
  32. ↑ Piner, Natasha (April 20, 2023). "Dimes Square Offline: My Experience with www.RachelOrmont.com". https://www.filmmattersmagazine.com/2023/04/20/dimes-square-offline-my-experience-with-www-rachelormont-com-by-natasha-piner/. 
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