Times Square is a bustling commercial intersection and neighbourhood in Midtown Manhattan, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. Always brightly adorned with billboards and advertisements, Times Square is sometimes referred to as The Crossroads of the World.
No trip to the Big Apple is complete without a visit to Times Square. As well as being one of the world’s busiest pedestrian intersections, it is also the hub of the Theatre District and a major centre of the world’s entertainment industry. This makes it one of the world’s most visited tourist attractions, drawing an estimated 50 million visitors every year.
Formerly Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building, the site of the annual ball drop which began on December 31, 1907, and continues today, attracting over a million visitors to Times Square every New Year’s Eve