Chatham Square Chatham Square Chatham Square is a major intersection in Chinatown, Manhattan, New York City. The square lies at the confluence of eight streets: the Bowery, Doyers Street, East Broadway, St. James Place, Mott Street, Oliver Street, Worth Street and Park Row. The small park in the center of the square is known as Kimlau Square and Lin Ze Xu Square. Chatham Square was named for William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham and Prime Minister of Great Britain before the American Revolution. Pitt Street in the Lower East Side is also named for him, and Park Row was once Chatham Street.
Chatham Township, New Jersey that had taken its name and adopted the village form of government established in the United States for the new state of New Jersey. Shortly thereafter, Chatham adopted the borough form of government on March 1, 1897. Florham Park was formed from portions of the township on March 20, 1899. Most of Green Village has always been within the township's jurisdiction. In 1773, the village "John Day's Bridge", a community governed by the English township of Morris since its settlement in 1710, was renamed as, "Chatham", in honor of Sir William Pitt, a British prime minister and the first Earl