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Longacre Square was at the intersection in Midtown Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan

Midtown Manhattan, or simply Midtown, is an area of Manhattan, New York City home to world-famous commercial zones such as Rockefeller Center, Broadway, and Times Square....
 of 42nd Street
42nd Street (Manhattan)

42nd Street is a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, known for its theaters, especially near the intersection with Broadway at Times Square....
, Blooming dale Road
Broadway (New York City)

Broadway, as the name implies, is a wide avenue in New York City. While New York has several other Broadways, in the context of the city it usually refers to the Manhattan street....
 and Seventh Avenue
Seventh Avenue (Manhattan)

Seventh Avenue/Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard is a thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It carries traffic downtown south of Central Park but both ways north of it....
. Originally named Long Acre by the British colonists, it was a nexus of important roads to the north of the island. George Washington
George Washington

George Washington was the leader of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States of the United States of Americas ....
 stayed in Long Acre while in New York during the American Revolutionary War
American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War , also known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Thirteen Colonies on the North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers....
.

By the mid-1800s it had become popularly called Long Acre after a similar carriage-making district
Long acre

The long acre or long paddock is a traditional term for wide grassy road verges. In some places, such as Australia, New Zealand and parts of the British Isles, rural roads are often separated from adjoining paddocks and fields by both a hedge or fence and a wide grass verge....
 in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, also a home to stables, and carriage shops.






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Longacre Square was at the intersection in Midtown Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan

Midtown Manhattan, or simply Midtown, is an area of Manhattan, New York City home to world-famous commercial zones such as Rockefeller Center, Broadway, and Times Square....
 of 42nd Street
42nd Street (Manhattan)

42nd Street is a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, known for its theaters, especially near the intersection with Broadway at Times Square....
, Blooming dale Road
Broadway (New York City)

Broadway, as the name implies, is a wide avenue in New York City. While New York has several other Broadways, in the context of the city it usually refers to the Manhattan street....
 and Seventh Avenue
Seventh Avenue (Manhattan)

Seventh Avenue/Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard is a thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It carries traffic downtown south of Central Park but both ways north of it....
. Originally named Long Acre by the British colonists, it was a nexus of important roads to the north of the island. George Washington
George Washington

George Washington was the leader of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States of the United States of Americas ....
 stayed in Long Acre while in New York during the American Revolutionary War
American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War , also known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Thirteen Colonies on the North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers....
.

By the mid-1800s it had become popularly called Long Acre after a similar carriage-making district
Long acre

The long acre or long paddock is a traditional term for wide grassy road verges. In some places, such as Australia, New Zealand and parts of the British Isles, rural roads are often separated from adjoining paddocks and fields by both a hedge or fence and a wide grass verge....
 in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, also a home to stables, and carriage shops. William Henry Vanderbilt
William Henry Vanderbilt

William Henry Vanderbilt was an American businessman and a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family....
 owned and ran the American Horse Exchange there until the turn of the century.

The first theater on the square, the Olympia
Olympia Theatre (New York)

The Olympia Theatre was a theatre complex in Longacre Square consisting of a theatre, a music hall, a concert hall, and a roof garden, built by Oscar Hammerstein I....
, was built by cigar manufacturer Oscar Hammerstein I
Oscar Hammerstein I

Oscar Hammerstein I was a theater impresario in New York City. His private passion was for opera, and he rekindled its popularity in America....
. More profitable commerce and industrialization of lower Manhattan
Lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the New York City....
 pushed homes, theaters, and prostitution northward from the Tenderloin District
Tenderloin, Manhattan

The Tenderloin was a once-seedy neighborhood in the heart of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Police Captain Alexander S. Williams allegedly coined the term in the late 1870s....
. Long acre Square became nicknamed the Thieves Lair for its rollicking reputation as a low entertainment district.

It was renamed Times Square
Times Square

Times Square is a major intersection in Manhattan, a borough of New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd Street to West 47th Street s....
 on April 8, 1904, by proclamation of Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr.
George B. McClellan, Jr.

George Brinton McClellan, Jr., was an American politician, statesman, and educator. The son of American Civil War general and President of the United States candidate George B....
 at the urging of Adolph Ochs
Adolph Ochs

Adolph Simon Ochs was an American newspaper publisher and former owner of The New York Times and The Chattanooga Times .Ochs was born to History of the Jews in Germany immigrants, Julius and Bertha Levy Ochs, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ohio....
, owner and publisher of the New York Times. The north end later became Duffy Square
Duffy Square

Duffy Square, also known as Father Francis D. Duffy Monument and Duffy Square or as Father Francis P. Duffy Monument and Duffy Square, is the northern triangle of Times Square in New York City....
.