New York City is probably most famous by it´s night lighting and Times Square, a heart of New York´s night life, impresses people with huge billboards, monitors, running lines and shop windows shining through the dark streets.
Times Square is a major intersection at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. Times Square has achieved the status of an iconic world landmark and has become one of the symbols of New-York. Times Square is mainly famous by its animated, digital advertisements.
Times Square was named after the Times Building - the former offices of The New York Times.
One Times Square is the site of the annual New Year´s Eve celebration for new-yorkers and guests of the city. On average, about 750,000 revelers crowd Times Square for the New Year´s Eve celebrations. However, for the millennium celebration on December 31, 1999, published reports stated approximately 2 million people overflowed Times Square.
