Times Square, the Crossroads of the World, in Midtown Manhattan
Friday, 9 June 2017 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika Category/Kategorie: General , New York City
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Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment center and neighborhood in the
Midtown Manhattan section of
New York City at the junction of
Broadway and
Seventh Avenue . It stretches from West
42nd to West
47th Streets . Brightly adorned with billboards and advertisements, Times Square is sometimes referred to as “The Crossroads of the World”, “
The Center of the Universe “, “the heart of
The Great White Way “, and the “heart of the world”. One of the world’s busiest pedestrian areas, it is also the hub of the
Broadway Theater District and a major center of the world’s
entertainment industry . Times Square is one of the world’s most visited tourist attractions, drawing an estimated 50 million visitors annually. Approximately 330,000 people pass through Times Square daily, many of them tourists, while over 460,000 pedestrians walk through Times Square on its busiest days.
Formerly known as Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building – now One Times Square – the site of the annual New Year’s Eve ball drop which began on December 31, 1907, and continues today, attracting over a million visitors to Times Square every year.
Times Square from the roof of One Times Square © flickr.com - Anthony Quintano/cc-by-2.0
Times Square functions as a
town square , but is not a square in the geometric sense of a
polygon ; it is more of a bowtie shape, with two triangles emanating roughly north and south from 45th Street, where Seventh Avenue intersects Broadway. Broadway runs diagonally, crossing through the horizontal and vertical
street grid of Manhattan laid down by the
Commissioners’ Plan of 1811 , and that intersection creates the “bowtie” shape of Times Square.
The southern triangle of Times Square has no specific name, but the northernmost of the two triangles is called
Father Duffy Square . It was dedicated in 1937 to Chaplain
Francis P. Duffy of New York City’s
U.S. 69th Infantry Regiment and is the site of a memorial to him, along with a statue of
George M. Cohan , as well as the
TKTS reduced-price ticket booth run by the
Theatre Development Fund . Since 2008, the booth has been backed by a red, sloped, triangular set of bleacher-like stairs, which is used by people to sit, talk, eat, and take photographs.
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