Question: What is iconified, "The Crossroads of the World"?
About the article "Times Square", section "Abstract".

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As a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, Crossroads GPS's primary purpose is the advancement of social welfare including public policy advocacy, although it is permitted to engage in political spending as well.
Crossroads GPS is required to report what it spends, but it is not required to publicly disclose any donor information. 
Times Square is a major commercial intersection and a neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway (now converted into a pedestrian plaza) and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets.
Times Square – iconified as "The Crossroads of the World", "The Center of the Universe", and the "The Great White Way" – is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway Theater District, one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections, and a major center of the world's entertainment industry.
According to "Travel + Leisure" magazine's October 2011 survey, Times Square is the world's most visited tourist attraction, hosting over 39 million visitors annually.
Approximately 330,000 people pass through Times Square daily, many of whom are either tourists or people working in the area.
Formerly Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in April 1904 after "The New York Times" moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building – now called One Times Square – site of the annual ball drop on New Year's Eve, a tradition which began on December 31, 1907 and continues today, attracting thousands to the Square every New Year's.
The northern triangle of Times Square is technically Duffy Square, dedicated in 1937 to Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York City's "Fighting 69th" Infantry Regiment; a memorial to Duffy is located there, along with a statue of George M. Cohan, and the TKTS discount theater tickets booth.
The stepped red roof of the TKTS booth also provides seating for various events.
The Duffy Statue and the square were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
When a window manager is running, some kinds of interaction between the X server and its clients are redirected through the window manager.
In particular, whenever an attempt to show a new window is made, this request is redirected to the window manager, which decides the initial position of the window.
Additionally, most modern window managers are reparenting, which usually leads to a banner being placed at the top of the window and a decorative frame being drawn around the window.
These two elements are controlled by the window manager rather than the program.
Therefore, when the user clicks or drags these elements, it is the window manager that takes the appropriate actions (such as moving or resizing the window).
Window managers are also responsible for icons.
Indeed, icons do not exist at the X Window System core protocol level.
When the user requests a window to be iconified, the window manager unmaps it (makes it non-visible) and takes the appropriate actions to show an icon in its place.
Most modern window managers do not literally show icons to represent iconified windows anymore.
Often, an auxiliary toolbar program will allow access to iconified windows.
While the main aim of a window manager is to manage the windows, many window managers have additional features such as handling mouse clicks in the root window, presenting panes and other visual elements, handling some keystrokes (e.g., Alt-F4 may close a window), deciding which application to run at start-up, etc.
Standardized protocols exist to allow normal clients to communicate with the window manager.
The original one is Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual (ICCCM) but this has been superseded by the Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH). 
Manhattan is the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City.
The borough is coterminous with New York County, an original county of the U.S. state of New York.
The borough mostly consists of Manhattan Island, bounded by the East, Hudson and Harlem Rivers, but also includes several small adjacent islands and a small area on the mainland.
Manhattan has been described as the economic and cultural center of the United States, and is home to the United Nations Headquarters.
Wall Street in Lower Manhattan has been called the financial capital of the world, has an estimated GDP of over $1.2 trillion, and is home of both the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.
Manhattan's real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, and many multinational media conglomerates are based in the borough.
New York County is the most densely populated county in the United States, more dense than any individual American city.
It is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with a Census-estimated 2013 population of of 1,626,159 living in a land area of , or about 70,826 residents per square mile (27,346/km²).
On business days, the influx of commuters increases that number to over 3.9 Million, or around 170,000 people per square mile.
It is also one of the wealthiest jurisdictions, being the sole U.S. county whose per capita income exceeded $100,000 in 2010.
Manhattan is the third-largest of New York's five boroughs in population, after Brooklyn and Queens, and it is the smallest borough in land area.
Many districts and landmarks in Manhattan have become well known to New York City's approximately 50 million annual visitors.
Times Square, iconified as "The Crossroads of the World" and "The Center of the Universe", is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway theatre district, one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections, and a major center of the world's entertainment industry.
The borough hosts many world-renowned bridges, skyscrapers, and parks.
Manhattan's Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere.
The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village served as the catalyst for the modern gay rights movement.
Numerous colleges and universities are located in Manhattan, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, which have been ranked among the top 50 in the world.
The city of New York was founded at the southern tip of Manhattan, and the borough houses New York City Hall, the seat of city government. 
The Crossroads is an unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Illinois, United States.
The Crossroads is south-southeast of Brussels.