Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
One Times Square (also known as 1475 Broadway, the New York Times Building, the New York Times Tower, the Allied Chemical Tower or simply as the Times Tower) is a 25-story, 363-foot-high (111 m) skyscraper on Times Square in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.
The Times Square Ball is a time ball located in New York City's Times Square.Located on the roof of One Times Square, the ball is a prominent part of a New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square commonly referred to as the ball drop, where the ball descends down a specially designed flagpole, beginning at 11:59:00 p.m. ET, and resting at midnight to signal the start of the new year.
It was used until 1980, as seen in the photo above, behind Russ Brown, then-superintendent of One Times Square. From 1981 to 1988, the aluminum ball was transformed into an apple.
"Numbered" Times Square buildings. One Times Square – The former New York Times Tower (1904) [167] 2 Times Square – Renaissance Hotel Times Square (1992) 3 Times Square – Thomson Reuters Building (1998–2001) [168] 4 Times Square – Condé Nast Building (1996–1999) [169] 5 Times Square – Ernst & Young Building (1999–2002) [170]
The Times Square ball first dropped in 1904, and it came into being thanks to Jacob Starr, a Ukranian immigrant and metalworker, and the former New York Times publisher, Adolph Ochs.
Times Square New Year's Eve photos. A man gestures as people gather at Times Square to watch the ball drop on New Year's Eve in New York City, U.S., December 31, 2024.
The Times Building is 52 stories tall with one basement, [20] covering a gross floor area of 1,545,708 square feet (143,601.0 m 2). [1] It has two major condominiums of office space: [ 6 ] a lower section operated by the New York Times Company and an upper section operated by Brookfield Properties , which took over Forest City Ratner's stake in ...
NEW YORK -- The ball that will drop in Times Square to usher in 2025 has been unveiled days before its final run. Organizers of the iconic New Year's Eve party in New York City screwed the last ...