Times Square is a noteworthy business convergence and neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue, and extending from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. Brightly enhanced with announcements and commercials, Times Square is in some cases alluded to as The Crossroads of the World, The Center of the Universe, the heart of The Great White Way, and the "heart of the world". One of the world's busiest person on foot intersections,[8] it is additionally the center point of the Broadway Theater District and a noteworthy focus of the world's excitement industry. Times Square is one of the world's most gone by vacation spots, drawing an expected 50 million guests annually. Approximately 330,000 individuals go through Times Square every day, huge numbers of them tourists; while more than 460,000 people on foot stroll through Times Square on its busiest days.
Earlier Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in 1904 after The New York Times moved its base camp to the recently raised Times Building, the site of the yearly ball drop which started on December 31, 1907, and proceeds with today, pulling in over a million guests to Times Square every New Year's Eve.
Duffy Square, the northernmost of Times Square's triangles, was devoted in 1937 to Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York City's U.S. 69th Infantry Regiment and is the site of a dedication to him, alongside a statue of George M. Cohan.
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