Times Square is in New York City. Almost everyone knows this, and most have seen it, at the very least on television during the annual New Years ball drop that has been occurring for almost 120 straight years now. Even on any other night, it is a very busy location where an average of 330,000 people pass through daily, up to over 450,000 people on busier days and weekends. Part of what draws so many tourists to this one particular intersection in New York City is that it is the central hub of the Broadway Theater District. Another reason that many tourists end up here is the towering marquees and billboards that are active 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is the one location in New York City that literally does not sleep. And it is quite possibly the most famous intersection in the world. That is what it really is in the end: an intersection. It is actually the intersection of Seventh Avenue and Broadway, and it is this intersection that gives it a peculiar shape. One glance at a map of New York City will show that the city is laid out in rectangular blocks with parallel streets and perpendicular streets forming their four sides. But their is one glaring exception to this structure: Broadway. It runs diagonally through Manhattan, forming odd angles with the other streets and avenues that it crosses. This is a result of the history of New York City all the way back when it was first known as the New Amsterdam colony founded by Dutch settlers. The main north-south thoroughfare at the time was the Wickquasgeck trail. As it was heavily traveled, much of the colony was laid out along it and it continued to be developed over the decades even as the rest of the city was planned with regular city blocks. This led to the present day shape of Times Square, where Broadway meets Seventh Avenue in more of an oblique x shape, rather than a perpendicular plus sign shape. And this allows it to have more expansive views that led to multitude of marquees and billboards that now cover its entirety. It is one giant advertising spot! Times Square is named for the New York Times newspaper when it moved into the nearby Times Building back in 1904. To this day it is still part of the familiar look of the area. Now known as One Times Square, it is the actual location where the ball drop occurs, and is also known for the round-the-clock news ticker that it displays. In this photo, The Wild Images Team waited until the most iconic vehicles of New York City, an NYPD van, a yellow taxi cab, and a horse-drawn carriage, came together below the bright lights and displays of Times Square, to capture this image. In the background on the right above the police van can be seen the One Times Square building. The Wild Images Team has captured many other photos throughout New York such as in the Corning Museum of Glass antique cruets and dishware overlap, then in New York City itself the sudden snow squall over the Garment District, the scene of the Sherry-Netherland towering over a sculpture, and the opposite directed festive view of West 58th Street, each of which is available for sale in our store. Our New York blog posts document the Corning Museum of Glass plate of colorful giant glass fruit, the intricate stained glass vines and bubbles over a figure, and the suspended glass knives in front of a red stack tower, then in New York City itself the Empire State Building shining like a beacon, the perpetual hustle and bustle of Times Square, the impressive bronze Alice in Wonderland sculpture, the memorial bronze statue of legendary Balto and its accompanying dedicated to the indomitable spirit plaque, the animated bronze animals and the Delacorte Clock, The Wild Images Team Coordinator Christina with Spongebob SquarePants, the festive view of a large toy train in Rockefeller Center Station, the late night giant holiday lights on the sidewalks, and the piles of giant holiday ornaments in Liholts Pooley Pool. In nearby Pennsylvania, The Wild Images Team has captured many other photos including the postgame fireworks over the Andy Warhol Bridge, the colorful bursts of Independence Day fireworks over the Ohio River, the view as delicate flowers bloom in the Laurel Highlands, and the very early lantana at the University Park Flower Gardens, each of which is available for sale in our store. Our blog posts from Pennsylvania have documented the Halloween moment when hundreds of witches converged on Mellon Park and then later performed a choreographed dance routine, when The Wild Images Team attended an interfaith wedding ceremony during which our Coordinator Christina Orban was a bridesmaid, a look inside of the ornate St. Vincent Archabbey Basilica, the side yard greenhouse vividly reflecting light displays, the scene dominated by vibrant strands of holiday lights on a tree, the many hues of a very festive holiday house along McColly Street, the colorful view of the Bellefonte Historical Railroad Fall Foliage Train, the burst trails of fireworks over the Allegheny River, the red, white, and blue trail fireworks over the Roberto Clemente Bridge, the palette of colors with fireworks bursting over the Ohio River, the hundreds of American flags flying over Blairsville Cemetery, the fall leaves surrounding the Tyrone Division of the Pennsylvania System World War I Monument, the many colors of a flower soaking up sunshine, and the dichotomy created by a floral battle of yellow versus red.
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