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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 ...
August 14: Victory over Japan Day celebrated in Times Square with famous kiss photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt. December 17: WABD moved from Channel 4 to Channel 5. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. becomes U.S. representative for New York's 22nd congressional district. [103] 1946 January 12: New York City Victory Parade of 1946.
In late 1941 or early 1942, the Times Annex was renamed the Times Building, while the old building at One Times Square became the Times Tower. [ 82 ] [ 95 ] The Little Theatre became a conference hall called the New York Times Hall at that time, [ 95 ] after the Times had again unsuccessfully tried to demolish it in 1939. [ 96 ]
An image of Times Square in 1977, the year Times Square was first installed. From 1977 through the early 1990s, Times Square continued to play, but supplying power was an ongoing problem. [4] Neuhaus began getting more commissions in Europe and moved abroad, so keeping up with the maintenance on the piece became impossible.
An estimated 350,000 revelers gather to welcome the new year in New York's Times Square, Jan. 1, 1958. Today's contemporary ball weighs a whopping 11,875 pounds and is adorned with 2,688 crystal ...
The current Times Square Coca-Cola sign undergoing repairs. The Coca-Cola sign is an electro-kinetic sculpture on the Two Times Square building in Times Square , Manhattan , New York City . The current sign, installed in 2017, is 68 feet (21 m) tall and 42 feet (13 m) wide, and is the latest in a line of Coca-Cola Times Square signs dating back ...
The bright lights on McDonald's old Times Square location in New York City have dimmed forever as the burger chain focuses on its newer flagship location up the street. The old location on 42nd ...