Times Square - New York City, New York, USA

Crowds, yellow cabs and street performers fill Times Square below this camera, at the meeting of Broadway and Seventh Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, while giant digital billboards blaze above the pedestrian plazas day and night.

Until 1904 this was Longacre Square. That April the city renamed it after the New York Times, which had just bought a site between 42nd and 43rd Streets and built a new tower there, moving in the following year.

The Times threw the square's first New Year's Eve party in December 1905, and the famous ball drop followed a few years later. Today it draws huge crowds every December 31, and the square is known as the Crossroads of the World.

Did You Know? To make room for its new tower, the New York Times bought the old Pabst Hotel on the site and tore it down.

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