Times Square

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Times Square is 'n groot kommersiële kruising, toeristebestemming, vermaaksentrum en woonbuurt in Midtown Manhattan, New York, Verenigde State. Dit word gevorm deur die aansluiting van Broadway, Sewende Laan en 42ste Straat. Saam met die aangrensende Duffy Square is Times Square 'n strikdasvormige plein van vyf blokke lank tussen 42ste en 47ste Straat.

Times Square word helder verlig deur talle digitale advertensieborde en advertensies sowel as besighede wat 24/7 diens bied. Een van die wêreld se besigste voetgangersgebiede, dit is ook die middelpunt van die Broadway-teaterdistrik en 'n belangrike sentrum van die wêreld se vermaaklikheidsbedryf.  Times Square is een van die wêreld se mees besoekte toeriste-aantreklikhede en trek jaarliks ​​na raming 50 miljoen besoekers. Ongeveer 330,000 mense gaan daagliks deur Times Square, baie van hulle toeriste, terwyl meer as 460,000 voetgangers op sy besigste dae deur Times Square stap. Die Times Square–42nd Street en 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal-stasies het deurgaans as die besigste in die New York City Metro-stelsel gereken, en vervoer daagliks meer as 200 000 passasiers.Times Square History, NYC Tourist. Accessed February 26, 2017. "Times Square is a major commercial intersection in central Manhattan at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. It acquired its name in 1904 when Albert Ochs, publisher of The New York Times, moved the newspaper's headquarters to a new skyscraper on what was then known as Longacre Square."

Voorheen bekend as Longacre Square, is Times Square in 1904 hernoem nadat The New York Times sy hoofkwartier na die destyds nuut-opgerigte Times-gebou, nou One Times Square, verskuif het.Dunlap, David W. "1907-8 | The Times Drops the Ball" , The New York Times, January 1, 2015. Accessed November 1, 2016. "After two more years of pyrotechnics, The Times found a less flammable way to signal the moment of midnight: an iron-and-wood ball, five feet in diameter, on which 100 25-watt bulbs were mounted. It was to be lowered down a flagstaff at midnight on Dec. 31, 1907." Dit is die plek van die jaarlikse oujaarsaandbal wat op 31 Desember 1907 begin het en steeds meer as 'n miljoen besoekers na Times Square lok elke jaar, benewens 'n wêreldwye gehoor van een miljard of meer op verskeie digitale mediaplatforms.Chan, Sewell. "A Lincoln Highway Marker in Times Square" , The New York Times, February 12, 2009. Accessed January 9, 2022. "Nevertheless, Times Square is indeed the eastern terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the nation's first coast-to-coast road, which was formed in 1913, its 3,389 miles stretching from New York City to San Francisco."

Times Square, spesifiek die kruising van Broadway en 42nd Street, is die oostelike terminus van die Lincoln Highway, die eerste pad oor die Verenigde State vir gemotoriseerde voertuie. Daar word soms na Times Square verwys as "the Crossroads of the World"  en "die hart van die Great White Way".Tell, Darcy. Times Square spectacular: lighting up Broadway  New York: HarperCollins, 2007Allen, 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."

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