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Banner's role, which provided the comedy relief in 36 Hours, was the role model for his easy-going German soldier POW camp guard Sgt. Hans Schultz in the television series Hogan's Heroes (1965–71). Coincidentally, Sig Ruman played a similar POW camp guard named Sgt. Schultz in the William Holden feature film Stalag 17 (1953).
Excavation work was conducted 24 hours a day, with most of the blasting work being conducted at night. [20] [23] Workers used small charges of dynamite to avoid damaging nearby buildings or the Catskill Aqueduct, which ran below Sixth Avenue and was a major part of the New York City water supply system. [24]
Times Square New Year's Eve celebration is in its 120th year. The tradition of thousands of people crowding to watch a shimmering ball be lowered in Times Square began in 1907, though the first ...
The New York Times lauded the plan, stating that "the Times Square–Grand Central subway shuttle was an atrocity from the beginning and has had no substantial improvement in a third of a century." [ 36 ] Bids on the structure to accommodate the conveyor, which was expected to cost $1.1 million, were to be received on December 10, 1954. [ 37 ]
Guests attend Times Square New Year's Eve 2025 Celebration on December 31, 2024 in New York City. A view of the venue during Times Square New Year's Eve 2025 Celebration on December 31, 2024 in ...
When and where to watch the ball drop in Times Square. Viewing areas opened at 3 p.m. Tuesday. Entry was first-come, first-served at checkpoints located at 49th, 52nd and 56th streets on Sixth and ...
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 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.