Times Square
Commercial crossroads ablaze with neon signs, Broadway theaters, and towering digital billboards.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Times Square in New York City opens on New Year's Eve 1904, when publisher Adolph Ochs threw the biggest party the city had seen, after talking the mayor into renaming a horse-and-carriage crossroads after his newspaper. You'll hear why the celebration nearly ended three years later when the city banned fireworks, and meet Jacob Starr, the young metalworker enlisted to build something to replace them. The guide traces how one publisher's stunt turned an ordinary intersection into the crossroads of the world.
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