After becoming New York's de facto Red Light District in the 1960s and 1970s ( as can be seen in the films Taxi Driver and Midnight Cowboy ), since the late 1980s Times Square has emerged as a family tourist center, in effect being Disneyfied following the company's purchase and renovation of the New Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd Street in 1993.

* The IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line runs under and over Broadway from Times Square to 168th Street ( trains ), and from 218th Street to its terminal in the Bronx at Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street ( train ).

) between Union Square ( 14th Street ) and Times Square ( 42nd Street ), the Ninth Avenue Railroad's Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues Line ( 1884 ) between 65th Street and 71st Street, the Forty-second Street, Manhattanville and St. Nicholas Avenue Railway's Broadway Branch Line ( 1885?

Before Broadway became one-way, the main bus routes along it were the New York City Omnibus Company's ( NYCO ) 6 ( Broadway below Times Square ), 7 ( Broadway and Columbus Avenue ), and 11 ( Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues ), and the Surface Transportation Corporation's M100 ( Kingsbridge ) and M104 ( Broadway Branch ).

* Bloody Sunday ( 1969 ), violence after a protest in Taksim Square, Istanbul, Turkey

Soon after, turnpikes were built: the Cambridge and Concord Turnpike ( today's Broadway and Concord Ave .), the Middlesex Turnpike ( Hampshire St. and Massachusetts Ave. northwest of Porter Square ), and what are today's Cambridge, Main, and Harvard Streets were roads to connect various areas of Cambridge to the bridges.

He also provided the voice of Jack Skellington, the main character in Tim Burton's animated Disney film The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 ), and has since reprised the role in many other subsequent productions, including the Disney / Square video games Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II and the Capcom sequel to the original film, Oogie's Revenge.

Monzie Square ( named after the Cameron Campbells of Monzie, Perthshire, former landowners in the town ), Station Square, where the long-since demolished railway station used to be, Gordon Square ( named for the Gordons, who owned land where the town now stands in the late 18th century, during which time the town was named Gordonsburgh ), and Cameron Square — formerly known as Town Hall Square.

* Harvard ( MBTA station ), the subway station located in Harvard Square

A fundamental rhythmic figure heard in Gottschalk's compositions such as " Souvenirs From Havana " ( 1859 ), many different slave musics of the Caribbean, as well as the bamboula, and other Afro-Caribbean folk dances performed in New Orleans Congo Square, is the three-stroke pattern known in Cuban music as tresillo.

A number of landmark buildings in Oxford, including the Radcliffe Camera ( in Radcliffe Square ), the Radcliffe Infirmary, and the Radcliffe Observatory were named after him.

The flat actually belonged to singer Harry Nilsson, who was loaning it to Moon, The flat, No. 12 at 9 Curzon Place ( now called Curzon Square ), Shepherd Market, Mayfair, was the same property where singer Cass Elliot died four years earlier.

John-F .- Kennedy-Platz ( John F. Kennedy Square ), formerly Rudolph-Wilde-Platz, in Berlin-Schöneberg is the square in front of the former city hall of West Berlin ( Rathaus Schöneberg ).

Old Street and the surrounding areas of Hoxton Square and Great Eastern Street also hosts a thriving night life including The Foundry bar and arts space White Cube gallery.

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The Double Header in Seattle's Pioneer Square is acknowledged as the oldest gay bar on the North American West Coast, operating since 1933.

In the mid-1970s, two young men, John Elmo and Jim Davidson ( later known collectively as The Bum Bar Bastards, or BBB ), began calling a bar named the Tube Bar, which was located in Jersey City, New Jersey, in Journal Square.

There is a sports bar in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, Delahanty's Tavern On The Square, named in his memory.

View of Taksim Park and Levent financial district as seen from the roof bar of The Marmara Hotel on Taksim Square.

The hotel also features nearly a dozen bars and nightclubs, catering to a largely youthful demographic, including Nine Fine Irishmen, Coyote Ugly, Pour 24, the Bar at Times Square ( a piano bar ), and the Center Bar, the latter of which is located in the center of the main casino floor.

Square Viking sails included a stiffening bar called a beitass.

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Besides serving as a restaurant and bar, Alma de Cuba is also a popular live music and late night venue being situated near to the hub of Liverpool's nightlife-Concert Square.

Famous bar “ Vis-à-Vis ” on Main Market Square

For a taste of Roodepoort night life, Town Square ( Hendrik Potgieter Road ) with its News Cafe is an over 21s bar to experience.

* The Paradise-not to be confused with the gay bar in Central Square ( Cambridge ), this venue is on Comm.

On 5 April 1960, after lingering at the bar of the Royal Court Hotel, 63-year-old Davies walked to nearby Sloane Square and threw himself under a train as it was pulling into the station.

Wing Commander Gutsy, a war hero flies into the bar, informing everyone that signups are scheduled the next day in Trafalgar Square, London.

* Red Square ( restaurant ), a Soviet-themed restaurant / bar in Las Vegas, NV and in Atlantic City, NJ.

She immediately gained bar work in London and very quickly rose up the ranks to become Bar Manager of " Alcoholiday ", an Aboriginal themed bar in London's Leicester Square.

It features the Sausalito waterfront and Sally Stanford's Valhalla waterfront bar and cafe, the front, interior, and a courtroom scene of the old Kearny Street Hall of Justice, and shots of Welles running across Portsmouth Square, escaping to a long scene in a theater in Chinatown, then the Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park, and Whitney's Playland amusement park at the beach for the famous hall of mirrors scene ( shot on a soundstage ).

News ( Link dead as of January 15, 2007 ) ( The same bylaw was once invoked to bar Barenaked Ladies from a public concert at Nathan Phillips Square.

Located in a slightly curved space above the main halls of Bucharest National Theatre on Piaţa Universităţii ( University Square, Bucharest ), the bar is one of the city's best-known gathering spots and music venues.

The OK Hotel was a bar and music venue located under the viaduct in Seattle's Pioneer Square district.

There are several shops and other commercial premises in and around Tycoch Square ( the junction of Carnglas Road, Harlech Crescent, and Ty-coch Road ) including a sub post office, a newsagent, and a wine bar / bistro, but no pub.

Times Square, when I ascended to it with my fellow subway travellers ( all dressed as if for a huge wedding in a family of which we were all distant members ), was nearly impassable, the sidewalks swarming with celebrants, with bundled up sailors and soldiers already hugging their girls and their rationed bottles of whiskey.

From there I turned left along Cumhuriyet Cadesi past more hotels and a park on the left, Republic Gardens, and came in a few moments to Taksim Square, one of the hubs of the city, with the Monument of the Republic, erected in 1928, in its center.

On the other side of the Golden Horn I rode through Eminonu Square, with Yeni Cami, or the New Mosque, which dates from the Seventeenth Century, just across from the entrance to the bridge.

Congress had already appropriated money, and plans were well along to tear down the buildings flanking Lafayette Square and replace them with what one critic calls the `` marble monumentality '' of government office buildings.

The northern triangle of Times Square is technically Duffy Square, dedicated in 1937 to Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York City's " Fighting 69th " Infantry Regiment ; a memorial to Duffy is located there, along with a statue of George M. Cohan.

Pike is the only Confederate military officer or figure to be honored with an outdoor statue in Washington, D. C. ( in Judiciary Square ).

1956 saw the debut of the Bald Iggle, considered by some Abner enthusiasts to be the creative high point of the strip, as well as Mammy's revelatory encounter with the " Square Eyes " Family — Capp ’ s thinly-veiled appeal for racial tolerance.

At the intersection with 72nd street, the triangle of tiny Verdi Square is surrounded by several notable apartment buildings, including The Ansonia, and the Florentine palazzo occupied by Apple Bank for Savings.

The intersection with Saint Nicholas Avenue at 167th Street forms Mitchell Square Park.

The Broadway Surface Railroad's Broadway Line, a cable car line, opened on lower Broadway ( below Times Square ) in 1893, and soon became the core of the Metropolitan Street Railway, with two cable branches: the Broadway and Lexington Avenue Line and Broadway and Columbus Avenue Line.

Gone are the days when the Hoffman House flourished on Madison Square, with its famous nudes by Bouguereau ; when barrooms were palaces, on nearly every corner throughout the city ; when Steve Brodie, jumping from Brooklyn Bridge, splashed the entire country with publicity ; when Bowery concert halls dispensed schooners of beer for a nickel, with a stage show thrown in ; when Theis's Music Hall still resounded on 14th Street with its great mechanical organ, the wonder of its day, a place of beauty, with fine paintings and free company and the frankest of female life.

Broadway became one-way from Columbus Circle south to Herald Square ( 34th Street ) on March 10, 1957, in conjunction with Sixth Avenue becoming one-way from Herald Square north to 59th Street and Seventh Avenue becoming one-way from 59th Street south to Times Square ( where it crosses Broadway ).

Since May 2009, the portions of Broadway through Duffy Square, Times Square, and Herald Square have been closed entirely to automobile traffic, except for cross traffic on the Streets and Avenues, as part of a traffic and pedestrianization experiment, with the pavement reserved exclusively for walkers, cyclists, and those lounging in temporary seating placed by the city.

* Kendall Square, formed by the junction of Broadway, Main Street, and Third Street, is also known as Technology Square, a name shared with an office and laboratory building cluster in the neighborhood.