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Times Square is a square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The intersection of Seventh Avenue, 42nd Street, and Broadway.
"The Crossroads of the World," "the Center of the Universe," "the Heart of the Great White Way," and "the Heart of the World" are all terms used to describe Times Square.
It is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, with an estimated 50 million tourists each year. On peak days, around 4,60,000 pedestrians stroll through Times Square, with approximately 3,30,000 people passing through daily, many of whom are tourists.
Times Square is a square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The intersection of Seventh Avenue, 42nd Street, and Broadway.
"The Crossroads of the World," "the Center of the Universe," "the Heart of the Great White Way," and "the Heart of the World" are all terms used to describe Times Square.
It is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, with an estimated 50 million tourists each year. On peak days, around 4,60,000 pedestrians stroll through Times Square, with approximately 3,30,000 people passing through daily, many of whom are tourists.
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00:00Welcome to Trending Places.
00:04Today we will take you through history of Times Square.
00:10Times Square is a square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
00:17The intersection of 7th Avenue, 42nd Street, and Broadway.
00:24The crossroads of the world, the center of the universe, the heart of the Great White Way, and the heart of the world are all terms used to describe Times Square.
00:38It is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, with an estimated 50 million tourists each year.
00:48On the peak days, around 4,60,000 pedestrians stroll through Times Square, with approximately 3,30,000 people passing through daily, many of whom are tourists.
01:05It is also the hub of the Broadway Theater District and a key center of the world's entertainment industry.
01:14It is one of the world's busiest pedestrian districts.
01:19Times Square is not a square in the traditional sense, it is more akin to a bowtie, with two triangles.
01:29The Times Square Southern Triangle has no official name, although the Northern Triangle is known as Duffy Square.
01:39It is the site of a memorial honoring World War I Chaplain Father Francis P. Duffy of New York City's U.S. 69th Infantry Regiment, which was erected in 1937.
01:55Lawmaker Square, as it was originally known, had a shady image as a hotbed of illegal activities in the 1890s.
02:07Despite the fact that it had been both a commercial and residential district earlier in the century.
02:16In 1904, the square was renamed in honor of the New York Times, which moved into the Times Tower on the square, though it would outgrow them by 1913.
02:30Almost immediately, the area became a gathering place for New Yorkers to welcome in the New Year.
02:39After the introduction of neon signs in the 1920s,
02:45Times Square quickly became the main American site for developments in large, brilliant electric signage and advertising.
02:56The Times zipper, which began in 1928, used 14,800 light bulbs to produce moving headlines.
03:07Signs portraying a large coffee cup spewing genuine steam and a cigarette-smoking man blowing steam-generated smoke rings were among the square's most famous.
03:21With the advent of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, the prevailing ambience of Times Square shifted.
03:29Saloons, brothels, burlesque halls, vaudeville stages, and dime theaters supplanted many prominent theaters as city people relocated uptown to cheaper neighborhoods.
03:44In the decades that followed, the region developed a reputation as a dangerous and unsavory neighborhood.
03:53The seediness of the region, mainly due to its go-go bars, sex shops, peep shows, and adult theaters, became an infamous symbol of the city's deterioration from the 1960s until the early 1990s.
04:11The New York Times called 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenue, the worst in town, as early as 1960.
04:23Mayor Rudy Giuliani's lobbying and the Disney Company's investment in the neighborhood are frequently attributed with Times Square's comeback in the 1990s, with the inclusion of big tourist-friendly boutiques, theaters, and restaurants.
04:42Attractions such as ABC's Times Square Studios, where Good Morning America is broadcast live competing Hershey's and Stoll's across the street from each other and many multiplex movie theaters are now available in Times Square.
05:01Restaurants in the vicinity include Ruby Foods, a Chinese restaurant, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, a seafood restaurant, Planet Hollywood Restaurant and Bar, a theme restaurant, and Carmine's, an Italian restaurant.
05:18Several big banking, publishing, and media companies have also established headquarters in the neighborhood.
05:28The area's safety has improved as a result of increased police presence.
05:36The Broadway theaters, as well as the massive number of moving neon and LED signs, have become one of New York's most iconic sights, as well as a representation of Manhattan's very metropolitan qualities.
05:53For the New Year's Eve celebrations, almost one million people throng Times Square, more than twice the amount of people who visit the area on a daily basis.
06:06According to published reports, approximately 2 million people overflowed Times Square for the Millennium Celebration on December 31, 1999, flowing from 6th Avenue to 8th Avenue and back on Broadway and 7th Avenue to 59th Street, making it the largest gathering in Times Square since August 1945 during celebrations marking the end of World War II.
06:37Times Square is a well-known place that has appeared in several works of literature, films, video games, music videos, and television shows.
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