#longacre square

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"Longacre Square south." Now known as Times Square, with the Rector and Astor hotels flanking the New York Times building. Photographed 1911 by Irving Underhill.

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The Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan was renamed Times Square after The New York Times on April 8, 1904.

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Pabst Hotel, Hotel Cadillac, Criterion Theater and New York Theater, Longacre Square (Now Times Square) Broadway & 42nd Street, New York City, 1900.

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Times Square, New York City

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The Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan was renamed Times Square after The New York Times on April 8, 1904.

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Times Square in 1898, New York City

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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Golden Boy featuring Sammy Davis, Jr., Taxicabs and People in Times Square, Manhattan, 1965.

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Looking Downtown in Longacre (now Times) Square. At right is Oscar Hammerstein's Victoria Theatre, under construction on the northwest corner of 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue. It opened March 2, 1899. At left is Broadway. The rectangular block between the two avenues is now occupied by One Times Square, which opened January 1, 1905 as the New York Times Building. Photo from late 1898 or early 1899.