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Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection and neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue, and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets.〔Rybczynski, Witold. ''City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World'' New York: Scribner, 1995. p.27. ISBN 0-684-81302-5. Quote: "...despite its name (Square ) is really a street intersection, not a square."〕 Brightly adorned with billboards and advertisements, Times Square is sometimes referred to as The Crossroads of the World, The Center of the Universe,〔(Explore Manhattan Neighborhoods: The Center of the Universe (aka Times Square) ). Her Campus (March 22, 2011). Retrieved on 2013-08-17.〕 the heart of The Great White Way,〔Federal Writers' Project (author). ''New York City: Vol 1, New York City Guide''. Best Books (1939) ISBN 9781603540551 page 170 () Quote: “The phrase ‘Great White Way’ is supposed to have been coined in 1901 by O. J. Gude, an advertising man, who is said also to have been the first to see the tremendous possibilities of electric display.”〕〔Tell, Darcy. (''Times Square spectacular: lighting up Broadway'' ) New York: HarperCollins, 2007〕〔Allen, Irving Lewis. (''The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech'' ). New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Quote: "By 1910, the blocks of Broadway just above 42nd Street were at the very heart of the Great White Way. The glow of Times Square symbolized the center of New York, if not of the world."〕 and the "heart of the world". One of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections, it is also the hub of the Broadway Theater District〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Times Square )〕 and a major center of the world's entertainment industry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New York Architecture Images- Midtown Times Square )〕 Times Square is one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, drawing an estimated fifty million visitors annually. Approximately 330,000 people pass through Times Square daily, many of them tourists; while over 460,000 pedestrians walk through Times Square on its busiest days.〔
Formerly Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in 1904 after ''The New York Times'' moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building, the site of the annual ball drop which began on December 31, 1907, and continues today, attracting over a million visitors to Times Square every New Year's Eve.
Duffy Square, the northernmost of Times Square's triangles, was dedicated in 1937 to Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York City's U.S. 69th Infantry Regiment and is the site of a memorial to him, along with a statue of George M. Cohan.〔Harris, Stephen L. ''Duffy's War: Fr. Francis Duffy, Wild Bill Donovan, and the Irish Fighting 69th in World War I'', Potomac Books, 2006〕
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