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Location Information:
The Times Square webcam view is
consistently one of the most viewed
on My World Webcams, bringing to the
viewer an essential mix of New York
sophistication along with the
opportunity to view the people of
NYC going about their daily busy
lives. Few web camera views are this
lively, with constant action almost
24 hours a day in a global icon of a
city that truly never sleeps.
Whether looking for a taste of
cosmopolitan Manhattan life, or
revisiting the scene of a favourite
holiday, the view from the Times
Square webcam in New York is
unlikely to disappoint. The Times
Square cam is especially popular on
New Year's Eve as thousands gather
to watch the ball drop, and also
watch the famous Dick Clark's New
year Rockin Eve, which for NYE 2012
will feature Justin Bieber and Lady
Gaga live.
Times
Square is a major commercial
intersection in the borough of
Manhattan in New York City, at the
junction of Broadway and Seventh
Avenue and stretching from West 42nd
to West 47th Streets. The extended
Times Square area, also called the
Theatre District, consists of the
blocks between Sixth and Eighth
Avenues from east to west, and West
40th and West 53rd Streets from
south to north, making up the
western part of the commercial area
of Midtown Manhattan.
Formerly named Longacre Square,
Times Square was renamed in April
1904 after the New York Times moved
its headquarters to the newly built
Times Building, which is now called
One Times Square and is the site of
the annual ball drop on New Years
Eve. Times Square, nicknamed "The
Crossroads of the World" and "The
Great White Way", has achieved the
status of an iconic world landmark
and is a symbol of New York City and
the United States.
The
theaters of Broadway and the huge
number of animated neon and LED
signs have long made them one of New
York's iconic images, and a symbol
of the intensely urban aspects of
Manhattan. Times Square is the only
neighborhood with zoning ordinances
requiring building owners to display
illuminated signs. The density of
illuminated signs in Times Square
now rivals that of Las Vegas.
Officially, signs in Times Square
are called "spectaculars", and the
largest of them are called "jumbotrons."
Notable signage includes the Toshiba
billboard directly under the NYE
ball drop and the curved seven-story
NASDAQ sign at the NASDAQ MarketSite
at 4 Times Square on 43rd Street and
the curved Coca-Cola sign located
underneath another large LED display
owned and operated by Samsung. Both
the Coca-Cola sign and Samsung LED
displays were built by LED display
manufacturer Daktronics. Times
Square's first environmentally
friendly billboard powered by wind
and solar energy was first lit on
December 4, 2008
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