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This is Page 3 of our Manhattan pages and features among other places, Times Square (with 3 cams), a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, located in Midtown Manhattan, which helped NYC become the city it is today. Times Square is formed by the junction of Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 42nd Street. Together with adjacent Duffy Square, Times Square is a bowtie-shaped plaza five blocks long between 42nd and 47th Streets. Formerly known as Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the then newly erected Times Building, today called "One Times Square". It is the site of the annual New Year's Eve ball drop, which began on December 31, 1907, and continues to attract over a million visitors to Times Square every year. The construction of the New York City Subway, which opened in 1904, also helped bind Manhattan together with the rest of greater NYC area.

In the late 1960s through the 1970s, Times Square and 42nd Street – with its sex shops, peep shows, and adult theaters, along with its sex trade, street crime, and public drug use – became emblematic of the city's decline, with a 1981 article in Rolling Stone magazine calling the stretch of West 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues the "sleaziest block in America". By the late 1990s, led by efforts by the city and the Walt Disney Company, the area had been revived as a center of tourism to the point where it was described by The New York Times as "arguably the most sought-after 13 acres of commercial property in the world."

Manhattan hosts three of the world's top 10 most-visited tourist attractions: Times Square, Central Park, and Grand Central Terminal. New York Penn Station is the busiest transportation hub in the Western Hemisphere. Chinatown has the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. Fifth Avenue has been ranked as the most expensive shopping street in the world, before falling to second in 2024. The borough hosts many prominent bridges, tunnels, and skyscrapers including the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, and One World Trade Center. Manhattan is also home to the National Basketball Association's New York Knicks and the National Hockey League's New York Rangers.

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59th St Bridge (Looking at FDR Drive by the East River)

Henry Hudson Pkwy at W. 66th Street

South Street @ Pike Street

FDR Drive @ 79th St

Williamburg Bridge - Outer Roadway, Mid Span (from https://webcams.nyctmc.org)

Henry Hudson Pkwy at W. 173nd St (by GW Bridge)

West St @ 34th Street

Columbus Circle @ Central Park South

Williamsburg Bridge @ Delancy-Clinton

Water Street @ Fulton Street

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