Times Square
Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 42nd Street slice through Midtown Manhattan at an angle, carving out a bowtie-shaped wedge of pavement — and that is Times Square. The name dates to April 8, 1904, when The New York Times relocated here and the city renamed the square (and its new subway station) in the paper's honor; the original name was Longacre Square. Today roughly 330,000 people pass through every day, and annual visitors are estimated at fifty million, making it one of the most visited places on earth. The New Year's Eve ball has dropped from a rooftop here every December 31 since 1907, and a city ordinance requiring illuminated signs keeps the blocks blazing around the clock — earning Times Square the nickname "the Crossroads of the World." Every billboard, every statue in the square has a story behind it.
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The overlooked corners inside
George M. Cohan Statue
Stand at the northern end of Duffy Square, where Broadway meets Seventh Avenue, and you'll spot a bronze figure with hands on hips and chin raised — back turned to the blazing neon, as if waiting for a curtain to rise. This is George M. Cohan (1878–1942), the man who effectively invented the American musical, known in his lifetime as "the man who owned Broadway." The statue was sculpted by Georg John Lober, cast in bronze, and unveiled on September 11, 1959, on a base of alternating light and dark Bayer granite. It is the only statue of an actor standing on Broadway itself.
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