Times square

Times squareThrough periods of time

What times square looked like in 1880

• Before and after the American Revolution, the area belonged to John Morin Scott, a general of the New York militia where he served under George Washington. Scott's manor house was at what is now 43rd Street, surrounded by countryside used for farming and breeding horses.

A interesting picture of times square in 1880

Transfomation

In 1904 publisher Adolph S. moved the news paper operations to a new skyscraper on 42’d street on Long acre square(The old name for times square )He persuaded the mayor to build a subway station, And later the area was named Times Square and that is when times square started to develop.

Times square changes

1960 through early 1990s Times square had a reputation of a bad neighborgood,because the great deppression changed it so much

Why is Times Square so popular?

Times square has tons of attractions that lot’s of people want to see.

Here are some major attractions in Times Square…

• Wicked the play• Riplies Believe it or not • Madame Tussaud's wax museum• Disneyfication(A Disney store)

Pictures of Attractions

Music in the area/trends

In the forties jazz was the favorite music and the city was top venue for it. I think this is because Jazz was really new at that age in time. In the fifties the music style changed to hip hop and punk rock .