Dimes Square

Dimes Square refers to the "microneighborhood"[1] of New York City, located between the Chinatown and Lower East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan.

[5][6] An online Dimes zine named Byline was established in 2023 by Gutes Guterman and Megan O'Sullivan.

[7] Ben Smith cited the neighborhood's emergence as a lockdown-flouting cultural hub during the COVID-19 pandemic in a 2021 New York Times piece.

[6] As the Covid-19 restrictions receded and the neighborhood became more mainstream, the associated transgressive art movement digitized and became increasingly prominent in online culture.

[8] 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 Anna Khachiyan and Dasha Nekrasova of Red Scare are the center of a post-ironic revival of traditionalist Catholicism.