Times Square NYC

The Darkest Days of Times Square
In the mid 1970s, Times Square was not the dazzling tourist destination you see today. I took these photos in 1974, when I was a student at the High School of the Performing Arts, then located on West 46th Street ...

Times Square: Part of New York City History
Shuffling down Broadway through the crush of tourists gaping into TV studios and craning their necks to the latest giant billboard, it's hard to remember that this gaudy enclave was once littered with sex shops and suffered the highest crime rate in New York City. While Times Square has changed drastically in the past decade, a reputation for razzle dazzle and spectacle attached itself to the area from its very inception. ...

The Naked Truth
Secaucus, New Jersey reporter Nicholas J. Zitelli spent a cold winter's day with a half-nude Cinncinatti man who's made his mark on the world as "The Naked Cowboy." This Times Square staple gets 'exposed'...

Mysterious Noises on 46th Street
In the midst of Times Square, the bustling, light filled, people-packed, center of New York City, there is a secret. As many as one thousand people in an hour cross the pedestrian island that runs between 45th and 46th Street where Broadway and 7th Avenue intersect, not noticing that there is anything that differentiates this island from all the others in Manhattan. However those people with particularly open ears, or those who happen to be walking slightly below the average New York pace, may notice a mysterious humming noise, rather like the clanking of a distant machine....

Sex and the Square
While Times Square was long known for its fast-paced entertainment and hectic atmosphere, from the beginning it had a reputation for sex and vice that endures in popular conceptions of the area—even after its seedier aspects were erased in the 1990s....

A Century Ago...
A brief look back into what was once one of New York's biggest and most grandiose theaters...

Vaudeville's Mark in Times Square
Times Squares bright gawdy lights and vaudeville were a perfect match, as this look into the history of vaudeville theaters in Times Square details...

Sin, Salvation and Shopping in Times Square
No tent was needed for a curious revival meeting that took place on the day after Thanksgiving on a traffic island in the center of Times Square. Though the weather was chilly, the fifty or so souls crowded on a concrete raft amidst a sea of midday traffic were warmed by the fiery preaching of the man in the white suit and clerical collar, his blonde pompadour bobbing behind his massive megaphone as he filled the air with the Good Word....

The Great White Way
Coined in 1901 by O.J. Gude, the designer of many prominent advertising displays, to describe the new light show that beckoned along Broadway, The Great White Way is a phrase known worldwide to describe Broadway's profusion of theatres in Times Square. Always glamorous but rocky, theatre and Broadway have a deep relationship stretching back over 100 years....

George M. Cohan Still Stands in Times Square
George M. Cohan was a stubborn s.o.b. A century ago, on May 8, 1905 he opened "Little Johnny Jones," the show that made him a household name--for a second time....

Only in New York: Times Square Recruiting
Located in the heart of New York City, the Times Square Armed Forces Recruiting Station never really has a "typical" day. Its location and notoriety make it one of the most interesting duty assignments in the Marine Corps....

Times Square Vaudeville
While it's well known as the center of New York’s commercial theater district, it’s probably lesser known today that for over 30 years, Times Square was also the headquarters for a type of theatre as exciting and bewilderingly diverse as “The Deuce” itself: vaudeville....