Times Square

 Canada and the special rates are available during popular holiday weekends, such as the Fourth of July – the time to see fireworks displays over the East River. You can also check out the new car-free stretches of Broadway in Times Square and Herald Square.

 CA With Times Square gone car-free this week, Gadling's Sean McLachlan looks back at the days when the area was “full of seedy bars, seedier adult shops, and crumbling movie houses where you could watch a double feature of martial arts films for two bucks ...

 NY Miami Herald via Planetizen) Some New Yorkers are pushing back against Bloomberg's grand experiment of turning sections of Broadway into a car-free zone. “I like the traffic in Times Square!” (City Room) “Oh hai Secretary LaHood!,” quips the Overhead ...