Times Square

Definition: Times Square

Times Square

Noun

1. The area of Manhattan around the intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue; heart of the New York theater district; site of annual celebration of New Year's.

Specialty Definition: Times Square

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Times Square, named after the New York Times headquarters, is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, which centers on 42nd Street and Broadway. It consists of the blocks between Sixth and Ninth Avenue from east to west and 39th and 52th Streets from south to north. It makes up the western part of the commercial area of Midtown Manhattan.
The theaters of Broadway and the huge number of gaudy animated neon and television-style signage have long made it one of New York's iconic images, and a symbol of the intensely urban aspects of Manhattan. Times Square is the only neighborhood with a zoning ordinance requiring tenants to display bright signs. One notable example is the new NASDAQ sign which cost $37 million to build. The sign is 120 feet (36.6m) high and is the largest LED display in the world. NASDAQ pays over $2 million a year to lease the space for this sign. This is actually considered a good deal in advertising as the number of "impressions" the sign makes far exceeds those generated by other ad forms. In 1998 the Times Square BID (Business Improvement District), a coalition of businesses dedicated to improving the quality of commerce and cleanliness in the district, started operations in the area. The density of illuminated signs in Times Square now rivals Las Vegas.
Times Square has undergone major changes in the last decade or so. For many years Times Square was a neighborhood that was full of "peep shows", erotic all-night movie houses, and stores selling tourist merchandise. It was considered a dangerous neighborhood, by many. The seediness of Times Square was a famous symbol of New York City's danger and corruption during the period from the 1960s until the 1990s. Influential and dark films such as Midnight Cowboy and Taxi Driver had many scenes in Times Square. In the mid-90s, mayor Rudy Giuliani (1994-2002) helped clean up the area, including the closing of sex shops, increased security, and more tourist-friendly attractions. Many of the sex shops closed or moved to industrial areas in Brooklyn or Queens.
More recently, such establishments have been shut down and more up-scale establishments have opened there. The process began in the late 1990's when the local government issued an injunction against the tight clustering of the porn shops in the 42nd Street area. Times Square now boasts such stores as a Disney Store, a Warner Brothers Store, a major TV studio, as well as restaurants such as Ruby Foo's (Chinese food) and Lundy's (seafood) and a number of multiplex movie theaters. It is also attracting a number of financial institutions. A larger police presence in Times Square has improved the safety of the area. Whilst the revitalised region is undoubtedly safer and more pleasant, some complain that the area has lost its spark and is now a thoroughly sanitized, Disneyfied version of itself—just another strip of franchised stores like anywhere else in the United States.
A ball signifying New Year's Day was first dropped at Times Square on January 1, 1905 and ever since the Square has been the site of the main New Year's celebration in New York City. On this night hundreds of thousands of people congregate to watch the Waterford crystal ball being lowered to the ground marking the new year. In 2002, NYC's mayor, Rudy Giuliani gave the oath of office to the city's next mayor Michael Bloomberg after midnight, as part of the celebration. In 2001, approximately 500,000 revelers attended the fete. Security was high following the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack with over 7,000 New York City police on duty in the Square (twice the number for an ordinary year).
External Links

Times Square Tourism web site: http://timessquare.nyctourist.com/
Times Square Business Improvement District: http://www.timessquarebid.org/
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Times Square."

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Crosswords: Times Square

English words defined with "Times Square": Broadway ♦ Great White Way. (references)

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Modern Usage: Times Square

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	On November 1st, 1959, the population of New York City was 8,042,753. If you laid all these people end to end, figuring an average height of five feet six and a half inches, they would reach from Times Square to the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan (The Apartment; writing credit: Billy Wilder ; I.A.L. Diamond)
Movie/TV Titles	The Cricket in Times Square (1973) I Cover Times Square (1950) Murder in Times Square (1943) Times Square Playboy (1936) Love at Times Square (2003)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Times Square

Domain	Title
Books	The Cricket in Times Square (reference) How Little Lori Visited Times Square (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	A Cricket in Times Square (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Times Square

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Photo Album: Times Square

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Actresses Millette Alexander and Louise King, and nightclub entertainer Ted Lewis, stand outside a giant mailbox stamp selling booth in Times Square, New York City, while Assistant Postmaster Aquiline F. Weierich dispenses stamps from inside booth] / Wor. Credit: Library of Congress.		Ed Wynn scored greatly as "The Fire Chief" with his chief foil, Graham McNamee in the 1930's at the old NBC Times Square studio in New York. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Broadway at night from Times Square, New York, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.		Times Square at night, New York, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Loew's State Theater, Times Square. Balcony I. Credit: Library of Congress.		New York City views. Times Square, Bond Clothes, and Loew's Criterion. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Times Square

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
times square	675	times square nyc	12
hilton times square	97	times square live cam	10
times square hotel	73	renaissance new york hotel times square	10
new york times square	59	times square hilton hotel	9
times square web cam	50	new york city times square hotel	7
w hotel times square	42	crowne plaza hotel times square	6
crowne plaza times square	41	courtyard times square	6
times square picture	36	doubletree guest suite times square	6
the cricket in times square	28	times square pic	6
times square new york city	27	w hotel times square new york	5
times square restaurant	24	times square new years eve	5
times square ny	21	hilton times square new york	5
hotel in times square	19	times square cafe	4
new york times square hotel	18	times square image	4
times square photo	17	times square sheraton	3
dallas times square	15	times square in new york city	2
crowne plaza times square manhattan	14	hilton times square new york city	2
crown plaza times square	13	hotel 41 at times square new york	2
w new york times square	13	ruby foos times square	2
times square detroit	12	new york hilton times square hotel	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Times Square

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-m-q-r-s-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: estuaries, marquises, masteries, mesquites, queasiest, sequestra, smeariest.
	-3 letters: asterism, emeritas, emeritus, emirates, equiseta, esquires, marquees, marquess, marquise, masquers, masseter, measures, meatuses, mesquite, mesquits, misrates, missteer, muriates, queasier, querists, questers, quieters, reassume, requests, requiems, requites, seamiest, seamster, seriates, seriemas, smarties, squarest, steamers, steamier, sureties, trisemes.
	-4 letters: aeriest, amusers, assumer, atriums, aurists, austere, autisms, easiest.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-m-q-r-s-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: marquisettes.
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