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The street was designated in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 as the southernmost of 15 east-west streets that would be 100 ft in width (while other streets were designated as 60 ft wide). Roughly at the midpoint of 14th Street was Union Square, which opened in 1839. During the mid-19th century, residential and commercial development in Manhattan began to migrate uptown along Broadway,

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