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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.
Formerly known as Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the then newly erected Times Building, now One Times Square. [10] It is the site of the annual New Year's Eve ball drop, which began on December 31, 1907, and continues to attract over a million visitors to Times Square every ...
Tomáš Baťa Square: Sezimovo Ústí Czech Republic: 15,600 168,000: 205 by 77 m (673 by 253 ft) Mírové Square: Litoměřice Czech Republic: 15,500 167,000: 195 by 90 by 180 by 75 m (640 by 295 by 591 by 246 ft) 1220s [57] Velké Square: Hradec Králové Czech Republic: 15,500 167,000: 340 by 90 by 320 by 10 m (1,115 by 295 by 1,050 by 33 ft ...
Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402) Bianco world map (1436) Fra Mauro map (c. 1450) Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513) Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s) Mercator 1569 ...
One Times Square had a relatively small trapezoidal footprint and occupied its whole city block. [5] There was so little space on the Times Tower site that its mechanical basements had to descend as much as 65 ft (20 m). Meanwhile, the Times Square area had become densely developed with restaurants, theaters, hotels, and office buildings. [6]
Inside the centennial time capsule, officials found 15 artifacts dating back to 1924 and earlier, including a film of the 1921 groundbreaking for the memorial, the 1917 Declaration of War and a ...
Today the map is found within the Eran Laor maps collection in the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. A mosaic model of the map is installed on the fence of Safra Square at the site of Jerusalem's city hall. The map is a figurative illustration, in the manner of the medieval mappa mundi format, depicting the world via a clover shape. [42]
It may be the oldest three-dimensional map, and dates back 13,000 years ago, around 12,000 to 11,000 BC. [10] Another ancient picture that resembles a map that was created in the late 7th millennium BC in Çatalhöyük, Anatolia, modern Turkey.