Times Square: Forskelle mellem versioner

'''Times Square''' er sammenfletningen mellem [[Broadway]] og [[Seventh Avenue]],<ref>[[Witold Rybczynski|Rybczynski, Witold]]. ''City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World'' New York: Scribner, 1995. p.27. ISBN 0-684-81302-5. Quote: "...despite its name [Times Square] is really a street intersection, not a square."</ref> samt en bydel i [[Manhattan]] som strækker sig fra [[42nd Street|42nd]] til [[47th Street (Manhattan)|47th Street]]. Området fremstår med mængder af neonskilte og reklamer, og omtales af nogle som "Verdens skillevej",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0402/at_intro.html|title=New York in the 70s: A Remembrance|author=Allan Tannenbaum|publisher=© The Digital Journalist|accessdate=21. januar 2012}}</ref> "Verdens centrum",<ref>[http://www.hercampus.com/school/nyu/explore-manhattan-neighborhoods-center-universe-aka-times-square-0 Explore Manhattan Neighborhoods: The Center of the Universe (aka Times Square)]. Her Campus (March 22, 2011). Retrieved on 2013-08-17.</ref> og "The heart of the Great White Way",<ref>Federal Writers' Project (author). ''New York City: Vol 1, New York City Guide''. Best Books (1939) ISBN 9781603540551 page 170 [http://books.google.com/books/about/New_York_City_Vol_1_New_York_City_Guide.html?id=SLdPtTqjPiMC] Quote: “The phrase ‘Great White Way’ is supposed to have been coined in 1901 by O. J. Gude, an advertising man, who is said also to have been the first to see the tremendous possibilities of electric display.”</ref><ref>Tell, Darcy. [http://books.google.com/books?id=NwaLWFSG3rcC&pg=PA41&dq=%22Times+Square%22+%22Great+White+Way%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=yHUaT4SVM6qZ0QHKpYS1Cw&ved=0CFEQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=%22Times%20Square%22%20%22Great%20White%20Way%22&f=false ''Times Square spectacular: lighting up Broadway''] New York: HarperCollins, 2007</ref><ref>Allen, Irving Lewis. [http://books.google.com/books?id=j41z0yeKbeIC&pg=PA59&dq=%22Times+Square%22+%22Great+White+Way%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=yHUaT4SVM6qZ0QHKpYS1Cw&ved=0CFwQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22Times%20Square%22%20%22Great%20White%20Way%22&f=false ''The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech'']. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Quote: "By 1910, the blocks of Broadway just above 42nd Street were at the very heart of the Great White Way. The glow of Times Square symbolized the center of New York, if not of the world."</ref> samtidig er området også centrum for Broadway teaterdistriktet.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/596253/Times-Square|title=Times Square|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|accessdate=21. januar 2012}}</ref> Times Square er en af verdens mest besøgte [[seværdighed|turist attraktioner]] og tiltrækker årligt over 39 milioner besøgende.<ref>{{cite web|title=The World's 50 Most Visited Tourist Attractions|publisher=Huffington Post|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/26/most-visited-attractions_n_4858066.html|date=27. februar 2014|accessdate=13. august 2014}}</ref> Cirka 330.000 mennesker passerer dagligt Times Square, hvoraf langt de fleste enten er turister eller folk der arbejder i området,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/01/21/130121fa_fact_owen|title=The Psychology of Space – Can a Norwegian firm solve the problems of Times Square?|author=Owen, David|newspaper=[[The New Yorker]]|date=21. januar 2013|accessdate=18. februar 2013}}</ref> hvilket gør det til en af verdens mest trafikkeredetrafikerede fodgængerpasager.<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20140921173328/http://www.diserio.com/streetscapes.html|archivedate=21. september 2014|url=http://www.diserio.com/streetscapes.html|title=The Most Jivin' Streetscapes in the World|publisher=Luigi Di Serio|year=2010 |accessdate=21. januar 2012}}</ref>