Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
TIMES SQUARE
Broadway, Seventh Ave and 42nd St. Visitor Center at 1560 Broadway. Subway N, Q, R, #1, #2, #3 to Times
Square-42nd St.
www.timessquarenyc.org
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If not always so in the public imagination,
Times Square
is now a largely sanitized universe
of popular consumption. It takes its name from the
New York Times
offices built in 1904
(the current
Times
building, a Renzo Piano creation, is at Eighth Avenue between 40th and
41st streets); publisher Adolph Ochs staged a New Year's celebration here in honour of their
opening. This tradition continues today: hundreds of thousands arrive early to pack the
streets, party (as best they can without being able to purchase or publicly consume alcohol)
and watch the giant Waterford Crystal Ball drop on One Times Square. The neon, so much a
signature of the square, was initially confined to the theatres and spawned the term “the
Great White Way”, but myriad ads for hundreds of products now form one of the world's
most garish nocturnal displays.
TIMES SQUARE
