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Long before Robert Downey Senior made it the subject of a documentary film, and before and the Project for Public Spaces named it among the Top 12 Public Squares in the U.S. and Canada, I fell in love with Rittenhouse Square. It is, without question, one of my favorite spaces in the city. When high school friends and I would come to into the city for a Saturday escape from the pseudo-suburban wilds of Northeast Philly or as an after school diversion via the Broad Street line, Rittenhouse Square was often among our stops. We visited it often, so I know the park well; I have lain on its lawn, gathered 'round the goat statue, climbed the lion, splashed my feet in the Goose Girl Fountain and kissed the frog statue. And yet, after years of harmless, youthful loitering amongst its foliage, Rittenhouse Square has lost none of its allure for me.