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'''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>

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>

== History ==

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" />

== Art scene ==