Greeley, Colorado: Everyone's 5th favorite Northern Colorado city, and the location where residents of the far northern Denver suburbs sometimes have to travel for court. It's named for 19th Century statesman
Horace Greeley, congressman, reformer, newspaperman, and failed presidential candidate, most famous for popularizing the phrase
"go west, young man."
Horace the person was not Greeley the town's founder, but he was instrumental in its founding. Its actual founder was a man named Nathan Meeker, who merely... worked for Horace at Horace's newspaper, the
New York Tribune. The Tribune spent years fiercely editorializing for the settlement of the west, and financially backed the project to found Greeley the town.
As far as I can tell, Horace never made it to his namesake town, but he did visit Denver in 1859, then still not much more than a camp, on one of the first stagecoaches there.
When he wasn't stagecoaching around the country drumming up interest to free the slaves and settle the west, Horace lived in New York.
And that brings us to
New York's tiny but mighty Greeley Square: It's more of a triangle than a square, but occupies a prominent spot where Broadway crosses 6th Avenue in the heart of Midtown Manhattan. The Empire State Building is a block away. Penn Station is two blocks away. The big Macy's department store is right up the street.
See the little open area in the middle of the picture here? That's Greeley Square:
Image from Google Maps
And here is Mr Greeley himself, proudly covered in pigeon shit:
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There you have it! I was feeding my daughter a hot dog in the square a couple of days ago, and while waiting for her to finish, thought to myself
"Hmmm, would the Colorado forumers enjoy this? Maybe?" If you didn't, well, feel free to request your money back courtesy the
New York Tribune.
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