Driving Downtown - Time Square - NYC USA 4K

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Driving Downtown Streets - Seventh Avenue - Manhattan New York City New York USA - Episode 13. \r
Starting Point: Seventh Avenue & 58th Street - .\r
Seventh Avenue – co-named Fashion Avenue between West 26th Street and 42nd Streets, and known as Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard north of Central Park – is a thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is southbound below Central Park and a two-way street north of the park.\r
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Notable districts and buildings\r
Notable buildings located on Seventh Avenue include:\r
Carnegie Hall, 57th Street\r
Madison Square Garden and Penn Station, 32nd Street\r
Fashion Institute of Technology, 27th Street\r
Alwyn Court Apartments, 58th Street\r
AXA Center (originally The Equitable Tower), at 51st Street.\r
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Time Square\r
Times Square is a major commercial intersection and neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue, and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets.[1] Brightly adorned with billboards and advertisements, Times Square is sometimes referred to as The Crossroads of the World,[2] The Center of the Universe,[3] the heart of The Great White Way,[4][5][6] and the heart of the world.[7] One of the worlds busiest pedestrian intersections,[8] it is also the hub of the Broadway Theater District[9] and a major center of the worlds entertainment industry.[10] Times Square is one of the worlds most visited tourist attrions, drawing an estimated 50 million visitors annually.[11] Approximately 330,000 people pass through Times Square daily, many of them tourists,[12] while over 460,000 pedestrians walk through Times Square on its busiest days.[7]\r
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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, attring over a million visitors to Times Square every New Years Eve.[13]\r
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Times Square is not a square in the geometric sense of a polygon, but is more of a bowtie shape, or two triangles emanating roughly north and south from 45th Street.[14] Duffy Square, the northernmost of Times Squares triangles, was dedicated in 1937 to Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York Citys U.S. 69th Infantry Regiment and is the site of a memorial to him, along with a statue of George M. Cohan.\r
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New York City\r
The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.[9] Located at the southern tip of the State of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.[10][11] A global power city,[12] New York City exerts a significant imp upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace[13] defining the term New York minute.[14] Home to the headquarters of the United Nations,[15] New York is an important center for international diplomacy[16] and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world.\r
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