Times Square
- Historical Name: Longacre Square
- Address: 7th Ave
- Vicinity: W 43rd St and Broadway
- Neighborhood of Theatre District NYC in Manhattan NYC
- Borough of Manhattan NYC in New York City
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1888/10/16 | Eugene O'Neill | Born | Born in the Barrett House Hotel, Longacre Square, New York City (1500 Broadway, NE corner of 43rd and Broadway) | |||
| 1921/09/04 | Langston Hughes | Life | Langston Hughes arrives in Manhattan, NYC, spending his first night in an expensive hotel in Times Square. "I had come to New York to enter Columbia College as a freshman, but really why I had come to New York was to see Harlem." - LH | |||
| 1942/01/28 | Preston Sturges | Director | "Sullivan's Travels" premieres at the New York Paramount Theater, 1501 Broadway, NYC (theater razed, building remains). | Sullivan's Travels | ||
| 1942/01/28 | Joel McCrea | Actor | "Sullivan's Travels" premieres at the New York Paramount Theater, 1501 Broadway, NYC (theater razed, building remains). | Sullivan's Travels |
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| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
| Father Francis D Duffy Statue and Duffy Square |
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| Palace Theatre |
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| Particulars for Times Square: | |
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| Sight Category | Historic District |
| Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
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| Bothon | Short Story |
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Henry St Clair Whitehead | Over towards Broadway, certainly, there must be clamor! But when he reached it he found only the compound eleven o'clock bedlam of Times Square. |
| I'm Scared (Short Story) | Short Story | Jack Finney | ||
| Midnight Cowboy | Film | John Schlesinger | Midnight Cowboy is set in and was filmed at Times Square | |
| The Memento (short story) | Short Story |
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William Sydney Porter | The Hotel Thalia looks on Broadway as Marathon looks on the sea. It stands like a gloomy cliff above the whirlpool where the tides of two great thoroughfares clash. |
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