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.

But one day, when the Broadway mall is fitted out with permanent amenities made of concrete, steel, and greenery, we'll find ourselves nostalgic for the early days of a car-free Times Square, when people bivouacked in the middle of the street, ...

 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 ...

 United States Times Square and Herald Square vendors are cashing in on the car-free Broadway. Everyone from food and souvenir hawkers to street performers said they were rolling in the dough thanks to the flood of pedestrians on the Great White Way. ...

 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 ...

Deliveryman Robert Gonzalez, 39, of Brooklyn, makes a delivery on W. 48th St. near Broadway. Do you think it's a good idea to close down Broadway to cars in Times Square? Yes! The sidewalks are already spilling over and traffic's a mess. No way. ...

This is the first full day that the iconic thoroughfare is officially closed to motor vehicles in Herald Square, from 33rd to 35th Streets, and Times Square, from 42nd to 47th Streets. Visitors strolled down the middle of the street, relaxed incolorful ...

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