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Showing posts with label Times Square. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Times Square. Show all posts

Jan 2, 2018

[Ans] What was the original name of Times Square in New York City?

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Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment center and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. 
Did you know: 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.




Step 2 : Answer to the question "What was the original name of Times Square in New York City?"



Longacre Square:


Longacre Square became Times Square once the New York Times built its headquarters there. Longacre Square was the original name of Times Square in New York City before it was renamed in honor of The New York Times. The name Longacre Square dated back to the 1870s, when the uptown carriage hub was named after Long Acre Square in London, where carriages similarly congregated. It was renamed Times Square on April 8, 1904, by proclamation of Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr. at the urging of Adolph Ochs, owner and publisher of the New York Times.


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Dec 29, 2017

[Ans] What was New York's iconic Times Square named before the title changed in 1904?

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.Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment center and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. It stretches from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. Brightly adorned with billboards and advertisements, Times ...
City‎: ‎New York City
Historical features‎: ‎Duffy Square‎; ‎George
State‎: ‎New York
Boundaries‎: ‎Broadway‎, ‎7th Avenue‎, ‎42nd



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Longacre Square:


Each year since 1904, a brightly lit ball drops down a pole on top of the One Times Square building at midnight on New Year's Eve. The fireworks-filled celebration began when the New York Times newspaper convinced the city to rename Longacre Square to Times Square. When the city banned fireworks a few years later, a wood-and-iron ball, lit by 100 light bulbs, dropped from the building's flagpole at midnight. Source: Dev.History.com


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