Round Cooper Square

Almost all traces of 19th Century New York are gone in this area but for the impressive Cooper Union building where we saw Moth the other night. Here it is in daylight

It was here that the first American music theatre work, "The Black Crook" (1866 ), was denounced as salacious and evil. The ten ton thighed chorines showed their wares in flesh coloured tights and startled the horses.

Here is the new Cooper Union which stands across the square on 3rd Ave

A mural on the side of  a hotel

Looking uptown from Cooper Square