Public Square Street
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| Public Square Street | |||||||||||||
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 Public Square Street, at its intersection with Nathan Road, looking west. | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 眾坊街 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 众坊街 | ||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 公眾四方街 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 公众四方街 | ||||||||||||
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Public Square Street (Chinese: 眾坊街; Cantonese Yale: jung3 fong1 gaai1; formerly 公眾四方街) is a street in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
The street runs in an east-west alignment from Cliff Road to Ching Ping Street (澄平街), meeting Nathan Road, Temple Street, Shanghai Street, Reclamation Street and Canton Road in its course.
History
The street was built in 1887. Its original name in Chinese was 公眾四方街 (Kung Chong Sze Fong Kai in Cantonese), a mistranslation that resulted from the word square being misinterpreted as a geometric shape. The more accurate translation of 眾坊街 (Chung Fong Kai in Cantonese language) was adopted in 1976.[1]
A large-scale reclamation was carried out in Yau Ma Tei between 1900 and 1904, between today's Reclamation Street and Ferry Street.[2] Public Square Street was extended to Ferry Street accordingly.[citation needed]
The end of the street, near present-day Ferry Street, the Yau Ma Tei Ferry Pier was one of main pier for ferry transport across Victoria Harbour between Kowloon and Hong Kong Island. The ferry pier was completed in 1923.[2] The pier was later relocated to Ferry Point near Kwun Chung.[citation needed]
The Tin Hau Temple Complex, a school and a community office were built in Public Square Street at the end of the 19th century by the leaders of the Yau Ma Ti Kaifong. In 1966, they all were still standing in a form similar to their original one.[3]
