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One Times Square remained a major focal point of the area due to its annual New Year's Eve "ball drop" festivities and the introduction of a large lighted news ticker near street-level in 1928. The Times sold the building to Douglas Leigh in 1961. Allied Chemical then bought the building in 1963 and renovated it as a showroom. Alex M. Parker ...
Times Square New Year's Eve photos. A man gestures as people gather at Times Square to watch the ball drop on New Year's Eve in New York City, U.S., December 31, 2024.
Formerly known as Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the then newly erected Times Building, now One Times Square. [10]
The Times Square ball was once a 5-foot creation of iron and wood. Now, it measures 12 feet in diameter and is lit by more than 30,000 LEDs.
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In Times Square, a thrilling new venue named 1604, at 1604 Broadway, will open to reinforce New York's persona of "the city that never sleeps." Inside the thrilling new $4M Latin entertainment ...
V-J Day in Times Square, a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, was published in Life in 1945 with the caption, "In New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers" Alfred Eisenstaedt signing a copy of his famous V-J Day in Times Square photograph during the afternoon of August 23, 1995, while sitting in his Menemsha ...
The rain stopped about a half-hour before the 11,875-pound ball, covered with 2,688 crystal triangles and 32,256 LEDs, dropped from One Times Square — a tradition dating back to 1907.