Foley Square (New York City, New York)

 movie / film / TV location, town square

Foley Square is an open space in the Civic Center neighborhood of lower Manhattan, New York City and – by extension – the surrounding area, which is dominated by civic buildings. The space is bordered by Worth Street, Centre Street and Lafayette Street. Foley Square sits on the site of Collect Pond, which was one of the original fresh water sources for the city, but in 1811 was drained and filled-in because it had become severely polluted and implicated in typhus and cholera outbreaks. The neighborhood around the pond was the notorious Five Points neighborhood, home of many gangs.

Foley Square, which was named after a prominent Tammany Hall district leader and local saloon owner, Thomas F. "Big Tom" Foley (1852–1925), is the site of a number of civic buildings including the classic facades and colonnaded entrances of the 1933-built United States Courthouse, fronted by the Triumph of the Human Spirit Memorial by award-winning artist Lorenzo Pace; the New York County Courthouse; the Church of St. Andrew; the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse – known before 2003 as the Foley Square Courthouse – where the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is based; the New York County Municipal Building; the Foley Square Federal Building and the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building and Court of International Trade.

The plaza served as a filming location for S01 E07 "Free Fall" where Peter meets Elle prior to Neal's arraignment. Views of the New York County Courthouse and the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse can be seen in the background. It was used again for a meeting between Neal and Peter in S02 E02 "Need to Know". The sculpture was also seen in S4E2 of the Starx Network show "Power" for an interview and S1E9 of the Starz Network series "Power Book II: Ghost"