What was called the ‘Places’ in the story ‘The Last Leaf’? What was special about it?

Hint: "The Last Leaf" is a short story by O. Henry distributed in his 1907 assortment The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories. The story originally showed up on October 15, 1905, in the New York World. The story is set in Greenwich Village during a pneumonic plague.

Complete answer:
"The Last Leaf" recounts the account of an old craftsman who saves the existence of a youthful adjoining craftsman, biting the dust of pneumonia, by giving her the will to live. Through her window she can see an old ivy creeper (developing on a close-by divider), step by step shedding its leaves as pre-winter transforms into winter, and she has brought the idea into her head that she will pass on when the last leaf falls. The leaves fall step by step, however, the solitary leaf remains on for a few days. The evil lady's well being rapidly recuperates.

At the story's end, we discover that the old craftsman, who consistently needed to create a show-stopper painting however had never had any achievement, invested impressive energy painting with extraordinary authenticity on a leaf on the divider for the entire evening. Besides, the old craftsman himself bites the dust of pneumonia contracted while being out in the wet and cold.

In a little area west of Washington square, the roads have gone out of control and broken themselves into little strips called places which made peculiar points and bends. One road crossed itself now and again and they were mazy.

Note: The fundamental thought in the short story "The Last Leaf" by O. Henry is the force of expectation and conviction. In Johnsy's conviction that the painted leaf is genuine and hasn't fallen, she can recuperate, done accepting she will kick the bucket when the last leaf falls. Johnsy considers the leaf as an image of her hang on life; when it tumbles to the ground she feels that she also will "go cruising down, down, very much like one of those poor tired leaves.