Times Square

Times Square, centered 42 Street Broadway—a place filled video screens LED signs. A world wonder tourist nightmare depending y perspective, "New" Times Square family-friendly theme p themed restaurants, theaters hotels, developing business district. Those looking seedy Times Square around P Authority B Terminal, around Broadway several blocks south

Times Square major intersection Manhattan, N Y Cy junction Broadway Seventh Avenue stretching W 42 W 47 Streets. T Times Square consists blocks between Sixth Eighth Avenues west, W 40 W 53 Streets south north, making p western p commercial Midtown Manhattan.

Formerly Longacre Square, Times Square renamed after Times Building ( O Times Square), former offices T N Y Times, April 1904. L Champs-Élysées Paris, Trafalgar Square London, Shibuya Crossing Tokyo, Times Square achieved status iconic world landmark become symbol y. Times Square principally defined y animated, digital advertisements.

T intersection Broadway 42 Street, southeast corner Times Square, Eastern Terminus Lincoln Highway, first across America.

O Google Earth, Times Square marks y center N Y Cy.

N Year's E

Times Square annual N Year's E p. O December 31, 1907, signifying N Year's Dy first dropped Times Square, Square N Year's celebration N Y Cy since. O night hundreds thousands people congregate watch Waterford crystal being lowered p p building (though street, common misconception), marking y. I replaced lavish fireworks display p building 1904 1906, y outlawed y y officials. Beginning 1908, eighty years thereafter, Times Square g maker Artkraft Strauss responsible -lowering. During World W II, minute silence, followed y recording church bells pealing, replaced p because wartime blackout restrictions. Today, Countdown Entertainment O Times Square handle N Years' E event conjunction Times Square Alliance. A energy-efficient LED ball, celebrating centennial drop, debuted arrival 2008.

O average, about 300,000 revelers crowd Times Square N Year's E celebrations. However, millennium celebration December 31, 1999, published reports stated approximately 2 million people overflowed Times Square, flowing 6 Avenue 8 Avenue y Broadway Seventh Avenues 59 Street, making largest gathering Times Square since August 1945 during celebrations marking World W II. While numbers probably lower inflated published sensationalist articles - probably closer 450,000 people attended-, Times Square indeed y crowded y.

I 1972, entertainer D Clark began hosting - ABC special detailing event entitled D Clark's N Year's Rockin' E, which y aired descent ball, performances popular bands commentary various hosts other cities, notably L Vegas, L Angeles, Orlando. During millennium celebrations 1999, Peter Jennings based ABC's operations Times Square, hosting ABC 2000 Today.

Notable landmarks

Times Square y intersection commerce, where chaos hundreds advertisements (signs "newscrawlers") viewers' attention. A famous examples:

Toshiba HD Countdown Billboard

TKTS booth

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Panasonic Astrovision

Budweiser

Pontiac Signs

Times Square Studios

O Astor Plaza ( MTV's N Y studios)

McDonald's

Chevrolet clock ( analog clock displayed digital screen)

Virgin Megastores

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Corporate presence

T following companies corporate presences :

Sx Flags I.

Condé N Publications

Diamond Management & Technology Consultants

Ernst Young

Instinet

Corona B

Lehman Brothers

Morgan Stanley

B & Company

MTV Networks

T N Y Times Company

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & F

O'Melveny & Myers

Thomson Reuters

Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, Pittman, LLC

Elizabeth Taylor

Viacom

EQW Radio Station



Major buildings Times Square

1 Times Square

Thomson Reuters Building (3 Times Square)

Times Square Tower

N Y Times Tower

B America Tower, N Y Cy (construction)

T Orion

N Y Marriott Marquis

AXA Center

O Astor Plaza

1500 Broadway

W Times Square

Renaissance N Y Times Square Hotel (2 Times Square)

Sheraton N Y

O Worldwide Plaza

Conde N Building (4 Times Square)

1585 Broadway

810 7 Avenue

5 Times Square

11 Times Square (construction)

Worldwide Plaza