The buildings open on a block-square garden known as Chelsea Square between Ninth and 10th avenues and West 20th and 21st streets that has been home to the seminary since the 1820s.

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The move applies to the majority of shopping and residential streets in the area, which covers a two and half square mile block of the city.

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The eclectic 178-room Hyatt Union Square opened in April 2013 one block south of Union Square, a leafy park sandwiched between Midtown and Greenwich Village.

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