Times Square
A bowtie-shaped plaza where about 330,000 people pass daily beneath nonstop digital billboards.
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It's the physical hub of the Theater District, where most Broadway theaters sit, lit around the clock by billboards and 24/7 businesses. It draws an estimated 50 million visitors a year, and since December 31, 1907 has hosted the New Year's Eve ball drop.
What to look for
- The TKTS booth selling same-day Broadway and off-Broadway tickets, on-site since June 1973
- Charles Keck's statue of WWI chaplain Father Francis P. Duffy in Duffy Square, plus a statue of composer George M. Cohan
- One Times Square, the former Times Building that gave the square its name in 1904
The Times Square-42nd Street station ranks as the subway's busiest, moving more than 200,000 passengers daily.
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More to see in New York
- Statue of LibertyFrance's gift to the U.S.: a crowned, robed woman raising a torch over New York Harbor, long read as a welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.
- Empire State BuildingRide up to the 86th- or 102nd-floor deck and look straight down on Midtown Manhattan.
- World Trade Center & 9/11 MemorialTwo reflecting pools now sit in the exact footprints where the Twin Towers stood until September 11, 2001.
- Wall StreetUnder 2,000 feet of pavement that stands in for all of American finance — named for a wall that hasn't existed since 1699.
- The Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art)1.5 million works under one roof, from Sumerian stone to modern American rooms — a day here barely scratches it.
- Central ParkThe most visited urban park in the US — an estimated 42 million visits a year — built by hand on the razed land of a Black settlement, Seneca Village.