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Duffy Square is the northern triangle of Times Square in Manhattan, New York City. It is located between 45th and 47th Streets, Broadway and Seventh Avenue and is well known for the TKTS reduced-price theater tickets booth located there. In the 18th and 19th centuries Lowes Lane connected Bloomingdale Road to Eastern Post Road. The west end of the lane was at the modern Duffy Square, and the east end at approximately the modern Third Avenue and 42nd Street. Lowes Lane and Eastern Post Road were suppressed late in the 19th century, but Bloomingdale Road survives under the name of Broadway. Duffy Square was briefly dominated by a fifty-foot, eight-ton plaster statue entitled ''Purity (Defeat of Slander)'' by Leo Lentelli in 1909. Now the square has two statues, a bronze of Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York's "Fighting 69th" Infantry Regiment, after whom the square is named, sculpted by Charles Keck, and another statue depicting composer, playwright, producer and actor George M. Cohan, by sculptor Georg J. Lober. The square and the statue of Father Duffy were dedicated by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia on May 2, 1937.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.timessquarenyc.org/facts/newduffy.html )〕 The statue of Duffy and the square itself were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.〔 == Gallery == Image:TimesSquare1820 Map2 crop.JPG|Lowes Lane meets Bloomingdale Road, 1820 Image:Duffy Square 1904.jpg|A 1904 photo of north end of Times Square before the creation of Duffy Square Image:TKTS_bleachers crop.JPG|The red steps behind the statue of Father Duffy are the roof of the TKTS booth 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Duffy Square」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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