Times Square, named after the one-time headquarters of The New York Times, is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, USA which centers on 42nd Street and Broadway.
It is not a square of physical space like Red Square or Tiananmen Square (In the United States, a city 'square' typically refers to a road intersection in a built-up commercial/residential urban locale.

It consists of the blocks between 6th and 9th Avenues from east to west and 39th and 52nd Streets from south to north.
It makes up the western part of the commercial area of Midtown Manhattan.

The New York Times publisher Adolph S. Ochs moved the paper's operations to a new tower on 42nd Street in the middle of the area known as Longacre Square. Ochs persuaded Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr. to build a subway station there and rename it Times Square. On April 8, 1904, officiated by Mayor McClellan, it was renamed. Just three weeks later, the first advertisement appeared on the side of a bank at the corner of 46th Street and Broadway.

The Times moved out of the tower in 1913, although it remains in the neighborhood. Later known as the Allied Chemical Building and now known as One Times Square, the tower is the site of the annual New Year's Eve ball drop. On December 31, 1907, a ball signifying New Year's Day was first dropped at Times Square, and the Square has held the main New Year's celebration in New York City since.


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