Times Square

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• SOURCE: History channel
  12-27-17
  

  How Times Square Became the Home of New Years Eve

  As the crowd counted down the final fleeting seconds of 1907, workers used ropes and pulleys to slowly lower the 700-pound ball down the flagpole crowning New York’s second-tallest building.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  6-30-17
  

  Phone Booths Are Back in Times Square—And This Time, They’re Telling Immigrant Stories

  "Once Upon a Place" features the oral histories of 70 immigrants.

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• 1-17-16
  

  Yes, that Was George Washington Leading a Charge in Times Square

  by Thomas Fleming

  Historians are rallying to save his Princeton battlefield from bulldozers.

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• SOURCE: YouTube
  12-31-13
  

  1904. The History of New Year's Eve In Times Square

  New York in 1904 was a city on the verge of tremendous changes - and, not surprisingly, many of those changes had their genesis in the bustling energy and thronged streets of Times Square.

• SOURCE: The Nation
  4-30-13
  

  Rick Perlstein: Times Square Blues

  Rick Perlstein is the author of Nixonland.I was in New York last week, and one of the people I visited with was my friend Mike Edison, whose qualifications for the job (being my friend, I mean, and for being your friend, too) are listed on the résumé that doubles as the title of his 2008 memoir: I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World. The notorious magazines include stoner rag High Times, which he published, and the only-in-New-York Bible of repulsiveness known as Screw, which Edison helped take over upon the retirement of Al Goldstein. I met Mike after he sent me his most recent book, Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!, a history of pornography, to blurb. I did so from the bottom of my heart: “Mike Edison can go toe to toe with some of the best writers of the (old) New Journalism. This is foul-mouthed popular history at its most entertaining. Plenty smart, too—and also, strange to say, poignant and loving.” (Hugh Hefner is the villain. I liked that.)