Where Was The New York Times Building Located During The Time Of World War 1

What is the culture like at the New York Times?

There isn't really a simple answer to this question, because the culture of the Times varies by section and even time of day. In my part of the building, where the opinion columnists have their offices, it tends to be a bit more relaxed, even sleepy, while the metro desk at deadline on a big story will be frenetic and full of electricity. When I started at The Times in 1984, it was mostly male, and we wore jacket and ties; there was plenty of smoking and drinking. These days, the dress code is much more casual, and somewhat more earnest; not a lot of whiskey bottles hidden around today. There are also lots of women, which means there's less of a locker room atmosphere. I'd say the staff tend to be very smart and hard-working, and remarkably interesting. Get people talking, and they have the most remarkable stories about their own lives -- and each others. People sometimes ask if everybody is liberal politically, but I'd say that journalists define themselves less by where they are on the political spectrum and more as skeptics providing oversight to whoever is in power. I would say, though, that while there is a range of ideology from liberal to conservative on political and fiscal issues, on social issues most journalists (everywhere,not just at The Times) tend to have an urban bias: They are more likely to be for gun control and gay marriage than the general public, and much more likely to believe in evolution. They are also less likely to have served in the military or to have working class backgrounds.

Why is the United Nations headquarters situated in New York City?

Although the other answer I just read is factually correct, I believe your question is also a philosophical one. And I, as a New Yorker, wish it were anyplace but here. Indeed it does not belong in the USA at all. The organization’s policies have, for decades, either been useless, or decidedly against US interests (with some notable exceptions such as Adelai Stevenson’s famous Cuban Missile Crisis reveal, and the resolutions authorizing the US-led coalition to force Iraq out of Kuwait). It is also grotesquely anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli by and large, which makes it all the more ironic that it is situated in the city that has the largest population of Jews in the world other than Tel Aviv. On top of all this, every year the general assembly convenes and causes utter havoc with New York City traffic and commuting. It’s bad enough that the city is constantly under a siege of construction that has choked its streets for the last several years. It’s 1000 times worse when the world convenes here for this nonsense.So if it were up to me, I would let Donald Trump build beautiful condominiums with river views and move the UN somplace more appropriate for its anti-Semitic policies. Perhaps there is room in Tehran?

Why is Times Square called Times Square?

Martin Fox is correct. The New York Times is located on West 43rd Street right off Seventh Avenue.What most people don't realize is that Times Square doesn't resemble a city square as that is understood around the world. If you look at overhead pictures, it looks like a triangle. Why is that?Midtown Manhattan is largely a grid of East/West streets and Uptown/Downtown Avenues (New Yorkers never say North or South when indicating direction). All the major Avenues generally head in one direction in Midtown, with the exception of Park Avenue. Seventh Avenue traffic heads downtown.Broadway (the longest street in Manhattan, originating in the Bronx) is an anomaly in that it crosses the avenues in Midtown diagonally starting from Columbus Circle (Eighth Avenue and Central Park South) to East 14th Street and Park Avenue South, creating Union Square (which is actually a square).As Broadway crosses Seventh Avenue between W 47th Street and W 42nd Street it creates two triangles. One is Times Square. On the other side is Duffy Square, named after the World War I priest Father Duffy who fought with the famous 69th Infantry Regiment (a unit made up at the time largely of New Yorkers).Head downtown several more blocks and Broadway crosses Sixth Avenue (also known as Avenue of the Americas). That triangle created Greeley Square and Herald Square (the site of the flagship store for Macy's). Like Times Square, Herald Square is named after a prominent newspaper of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the New York Herald, which eventually merged with the New-York Tribune. Horace Greeley was the great editor of the Tribune.The square at Fifth Avenue is actually a square, Madison Square (named for the street on its eastern boundary, Madison Avenue).  It is a park.  Interestingly, Madison Square is not the site of the current Madison Square Garden, which is between Seventh and Eighth Avenues between W 31st and W 33rd Streets. However, there were two previous venues called Madison Square Garden located at Madison Square; hence its name.The last square, Union Square, is also a traditional square. It often hosts farmers' markets, for example, and craft merchants. After Union Square, no longer in Midtown, Broadway enters Greenwich Village and begins to run parallel with the rest of the Uptown/Downtown streets until it reaches the southern most tip of Manhattan, Battery Park.

What made Times Square become such a big deal?

Times Square was called Longacre Square until 1904, when the New York Times moved its headquarters to the location.Their 1904 location was called Times Tower, but the newspaper quickly outgrew it and moved in 1913 to 229 West 43rd St.Times Tower is now known as 1 Times Square, and is the scene of the "ball drop" each New Year's Eve.Times Tower / 1 Times Square Under Construction in 1903The newspaper stayed headquartered at the 229 West 43rd St. building for almost 100 years.Also remember that most Major Cross Streets and Major Plazas in New York City are defined by where Broadway crosses a major north-south Avenue. Broadway crosses 4th Ave. at Union Square, Broadway crosses 5th Ave. at Madison Square, Broadway crosses 6th Ave. at Herald Square, Broadway crosses 7th Ave. at Times Square, Broadway crosses 8th Ave. at Columbus Circle, etc.All of these streets and urban plaza are considered major, though certainly Times Square and 42nd St. are the most famous. There has even been a major musical by the name:And there are other musicals and films which “star” the street and location, even by other names:Times Square became even more iconic because of all of the entertainment options, like the theater district, both the “legitimate” Broadway theater and also the “grindhouses” that once thrived there:There were major demonstrations in the square, especially the V-J Day and V-E celebrations of World War II. Alfred Eisenstadt’s image of the “Times Square kiss” on V-J Day became one of the most famous images of the war:And there were other entertainment options like the Paramount Theater:….and Bonds Casino:And on and on….The New York Times finally moved to their current location on 41st St. between 7th and 8th Avenues in 2007. This keeps the newspaper in the Times Square area.