One Times Square — also known as 1475 Broadway, the New York Times Building, the New York Times Tower, or simply as the Times Tower — is a 25 story, 395 foot (110.6 m) high skyscraper at 42nd Street and Broadway in New York City.
The second tallest building in Manhattan when it opened in 1904, it was originally intended as the headquarters of the local newspaper, The New York Times. While the Times no longer operates from the building, One Times Square remains a major focal point of Times Square.
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Famous quotes containing the words times square, times and/or square:
“On the Times Square sidewalk
we shuffle along, cardboard signs
Stop the War
slung round our necks.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“I ... toyed with the idea of going to find another war where I could at least feel alive. I was so numb that it took terror to make me feel anything.”
—Bess Jones, U.S. nurse. As quoted in the New York Times Magazine, p. 72 (November 7, 1993)
“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)