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Times Square, specifically the intersection of Broadway and 42nd Street, is the eastern terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the first road across the United States for motorized vehicles. [13] Times Square is sometimes referred to as "the Crossroads of the World" [14] and "the heart of the Great White Way". [15] [16] [17]
One Times Square remained a major focal point of the area due to its annual New Year's Eve "ball drop" festivities and the introduction of a large lighted news ticker near street-level in 1928. The Times sold the building to Douglas Leigh in 1961. Allied Chemical then bought the building in 1963 and renovated it as a showroom. Alex M. Parker ...
Times Square is the hub of the Broadway theater district and a major cultural venue in Midtown Manhattan.The pedestrian intersection also has one of the highest annual attendance rates of any tourist attraction in the world, [1] estimated at 60 million including daytrippers.
Times Square is a marketer's dream, a place where loud, garish advertisements have become a world renowned tourist attraction. John Woods takes us on a tour of Times Square to share what goes into ...
V-J Day in Times Square, a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, was published in Life in 1945 with the caption, "In New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers" Alfred Eisenstaedt signing a copy of his famous V-J Day in Times Square photograph during the afternoon of August 23, 1995, while sitting in his Menemsha ...
“The popular ones are a skyline, Statue of Liberty, the word ‘New York,’ ‘New York City,’ ‘I Love New York.’ But also hot dogs, pizza, a rat eating pizza.
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.
Bill Ackman runs Pershing Square Capital Management, and he’s one of the most high-profile investors of the last decade. He’s made a number of big bets, and he’s not shy about going into the ...