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UNION SQUARE, GRAMERCY PARK AND THE
FLATIRON DISTRICT
For a glimpse of well-preserved nineteenth-century New York, it's definitely worth a
jaunt around the more genteel parts of the east-side neighbourhoods that surround
Union Square and Gramercy Park. Madison Square Park and the decidedly anorexic
Flatiron Building anchor the amorphous area of the Flatiron District, which veers up
and down Broadway and takes in a number of elegant facades; things take on more of a
high-rise, Midtown flavour the closer you get to the Empire State Building. Some of the
best and most expensive restaurants in the city call this stretch home; wander east to the
high 20s around Lexington Avenue, a little Indian area called Curry Hill, for wallet re-
lief in the kosher vegetarian restaurants and
chaat
cafés frequented by taxi drivers.
