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unusual facts about Taras Shevchenko Place


Taras Shevchenko Place

In one of his poems, he called for an independent Ukrainian state to be led by a "Ukrainian Washington".



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41 Cooper Square

It originally called for a nine-story academic building to replace the Hewitt Building, a fifteen-story office complex to replace the engineering building, the removal of Taras Shevchenko Place (a tiny street honoring a Ukrainian folk hero between St. George’s Ukrainian Church and the site), and the development of a parking lot on 26 Astor Place and an empty lot on Stuyvesant Street into a hotel or for another commercial tenant.