Formerly Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in April 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building site of the annual ball drop on New Year's Eve.

The aim is to carry the ball from the " Salting Pool " via the old A30, along Callywith Road, then through Castle Street, Church Square and Honey Street to finish at the Turret Clock in Fore Street.

It was announced on the Times Square website that the year numerals for the 2010 ball drop would use LED lights.

After New York City officials nixed MTV's plans to hold a " Snooki Drop " alongside the Times Square Ball in Times Square New Year's Eve 2010 – 11, MTV moved the event ( in which Jersey Shore cast member Nicole Polizzi is dropped in a ball ) to Seaside Heights.

On December 31, 2008, Richie performed in Times Square for the New Year's Eve celebration and ball drop.

File: Times Square ball. jpg | Waterford Crystal Ball, designed for the New Year's celebrations at Times Square.

A modern variant on the time ball is the ball drop on New Year's Eve, located in Times Square, New York City.

Unlike a standard time ball, where the drop starts at exactly noon or 1 p. m., the Times Square drop starts at 11: 59pm on December 31 and completes 60 seconds later at midnight on January 1.

Four square, also known as Square Ball or handball, is usually played with a rubber playground ball, a volleyball, or a tennis ball on a square court with four maximum players, depending on the rules ( Big Four Square, Six Square, etc .).

Examples include the death and funeral of Ronald Reagan, the crash of Continental Airlines Flight 3407 in the Buffalo suburb of Clarence Center, the Hudson river plane landing, the attempted Christmas Day bombing of flight 253 and the death and memorial service of Michael Jackson as well as scheduled events such as US elections, Presidential inaugurations and the annual New Year's Eve ball drop from Times Square.

* Alfred Sutro's one-act play A Marriage Has Been Arranged ( 1904 ) portraits a ball in " the Conservatory of No. 300 Grovesnor Square ".

The ' winner of the ball ' ( that is, the hurler that goals the ball or carries it over the boundary ) is carried on the shoulders of two team-mates back to Market Square, to strains of the hurling song.

At 8: 00 pm, the winner returns to Market Square to call up the ball again.

If birds don't belong in a Square or Park, what does??

The Wings song, " Rock Show " mentions the arena in the chorus of its lyrics, If there's a rock show at The Concertgebouw / They've got long hair at the Madison Square ....

* " London Song " by Ray Davies: " If you're ever up on Highgate Hill on a clear day, You can see right down to Leicester Square ".

If control gets past the first pattern ( the < tt > Circle </ tt >), we know the value must be either a < tt > Square </ tt > or a < tt > Triangle </ tt >.

If the new pope is already a bishop, as is normally the case, his election is announced immediately to the people gathered in Saint Peter's Square and he gives them his blessing.

If there was a riding surrounding the wapentake, the wapentake would merely be a local assembly coordinating the power of the Riding, which in Jorvik's case, would be under the king's command at what is now King's Square in York.

“ If only he had gone Philadelphia !” Years later, he would write bitterly, " On the night of June 25th, 1906, while attending a performance at Madison Square Garden, Stanford White was shot from behind a crazed profligate whose great wealth was used to besmirch his victim's memory during the series of notorious trials that ensued.

If a Square object is used in a context where a Rectangle is expected, unexpected behavior may occur because the dimensions of a Square cannot ( or rather should not ) be modified independently.

If Square and Rectangle had only getter methods ( i. e., they were immutable objects ), then no violation of LSP could occur.

If you looking for somewhere to park for the 2012 Music Midtown you can park in Central Parking's Colony Square parking lot and then walk to the venue.

He has released five comedy albums: Harmful If Swallowed ; Retaliation ; Vicious Circle ; Rough Around The Edges: Live From Madison Square Garden ; and Isolated Incident.

If the Sator Square is read boustrophedon, with a reverse in direction, then the words become SATOR OPERA TENET, with the sequence reversed.

If one crosses Velyka Berdychivska Street from the southern end of Mykhailivska Street, then one finds oneself at Korolyov Square containing the building of the Zhytomyr Oblast Council.

If the Dog is allowed on water, a Dog ( friendly or enemy ) on any intervening Water Square also prevents the Lion and the Tiger from jumping over the River.

Believed to be one of the youngest football chairman in the UK ever Conridge was quoted as saying, " I'm not here to chuck thousands of pounds into a black hole, I'm here to pull everyone together and work with a good team ...... This club will not spend more than it can afford to chase a dream ...... If we can't afford a budget to go to Blue Square Bet South we won't pay it ".

Her first professional appearance came in 1901, when she was cast as Jehanneton in the play If I Were King, which ran for 56 performances at Garden Theatre ( an early component of Madison Square Garden ).

**" Rice is Nice " / " Shoeshine Boy " / " Turn Around and Take a Look " / " Rainbow Tree " / " Ask Me If I Care " / " Stragglin ' Behind " / " Green Tambourine " / " Blueberry Blue " / " The Shoemaker of Leatherwear Square " / " Fifty Year Void " / " Through With You "

Richard Posner, a highly influential judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, further argue that " If torture is the only means of obtaining the information necessary to prevent the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Times Square, torture should be used — and will be used — to obtain the information .... No one who doubts that this is the case should be in a position of responsibility.

`` I saw the boy Dandy at the Congo Square festivities and felt sorry for him.

Moving past the presidential viewing stand and Lafayette Square will be at least 40 marching units.

The victim, Norman B. Wiley, 38, of the 900 block North Charles Street, was treated for cuts at Franklin Square Hospital after the robbery.

Members of the San Francisco American Friends Service, a Quaker organization, will march to San Francisco for a rally in Union Square at 2 p.m. Saturday.

The Moiseyev Dance Company dropped in at Madison Square Garden last night for the first of four farewell performances before it brings its long American tour to a close.

Alcott himself moved out of Concord for his final years, settling at 10 Louisburg Square in Boston beginning in 1885.

* Times Square is a major commercial intersection in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets.

Statue at Judiciary Square, Washington, D. C.

Starting in 2009, vehicular traffic is banned at Times Square between 47th and 42nd Streets, and at Herald Square between 35th and 33rd Streets as part of a pilot program ; the right-of-way is intact and reserved for cyclists and pedestrians.

It is a short walk from there to New York University near Washington Square Park, which is at the foot of Fifth Avenue.

At Madison Square, location of the Flatiron Building, Broadway crosses Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street.

Until June 2007, The New York Times, from which the Square gets its name, was published at offices at 239 West 43rd Street ; the paper stopped printing papers there on June 15, 1997.

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

* 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 ).

Finally, at the same time as Madison Avenue became one-way northbound and Fifth Avenue became one-way southbound, Broadway was made one-way southbound between Madison Square ( where Fifth Avenue crosses ) and Union Square on January 14, 1966, completing its conversion south of Columbus Circle.

In London, a statue of him as the Tramp was unveiled in Leicester Square in 1981 and a permanent exhibition on his life and career, Charlie Chaplin – The Great Londoner, opened at the London Film Museum in 2010.

Lesley University's University Hall and Porter campus are located at Porter Square.

* Inman Square, at the junction of Cambridge and Hampshire streets in Mid-Cambridge.

* Lechmere Square, at the junction of Cambridge and First streets, adjacent to the CambridgeSide Galleria shopping mall.