NYC, Times Square, 1943
Times Square on a rainy day. Times Square is a major commercial intersection and neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. Brightly adorned with billboards and advertisements. Times Square is sometimes referred to as The Crossroads of the World, The Center of the Universe, and the heart of The Great White Way. One of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections and the hub of the Broadway Theater District. The general atmosphere of Times Square changed with the onset of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Many popular theaters closed, replaced by saloons, brothels, burlesque halls, vaudeville stages, and dime houses. The area acquired a reputation as a dangerous and seedy neighborhood in the following decades, but continued to be the site of the annual ball drop on New Year's Eve. The ball drop was placed on hiatus for New Year's Eve 1942 and 1943 due to wartime lighting restrictions during WWII. Photographed by John Vachon, March 1943.
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