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Times Square, the center of the world

This is a must visit if you travel to New York, and not just because it is the most famous square in the city or the multitude of theaters, shops and restaurants can find, but as a title to this article, we consider Times Square the center of the world.

To situate, Times Square is located at the intersection of Broadway and 7 th Avenue between 42 and 48 streets in the heart of Midtown New Yorker.

is in this central place where New Yorkers celebrate New Year, or where we can watch the news in many of the big screens dotted around the facades of the buildings that make up this gigantic audiovisual space in the day is always through the light of thousands of neon lights and bulbs.

The day we arrived, after leaving luggage in the apartment, the first thing we did was go to this place in search of a place to dine, but it took a bit more than necessary to stay a while captivated by the giant screens of neon lights, huge billboards, the comings and goings of hundreds of people and superstores overlooking the square.

Among the stores that you can find and you must not miss is the R'us Toys, where they have mounted a wheel inside the store, or the next Footlocker there (though you are going to overeat to enter the Footlocker which are scattered throughout the city and appear like mushrooms).

Another interesting shop was the Virgin, which unfortunately closed in 2009, and where we could find almost any album or movie to a really incredible price. Just next door is the Planet Hollywood where we bought the New York Pass, a card to get discounts at many sites and its price includes entry to many tourist sites.

Almost at the street level and ending 48 Times Square to the north, we have a huge bright lively panel tells us that we have come to the store themed M & M's.

This is a real paradise for these small balls of chocolate where can we find more than a hundred different flavors sorted into huge pipes, 2 storeys high, merchandising of all kinds and even a machine " I analyzed "and tells you what kind of M & M's are. Impossible you do not want to enter want to try them all!

The facade of Morgan Stanley, we can see the real-time listing of many of the most important securities. On the other side of the plaza is the headquarters of the Nasdaq, where they show a similar information in its huge curved screen.

After this first contact with Times Square, just having dinner at the Friday's that are up to 46 th Street, a huge restaurant at least 3 plants in which there were many people, but within 10 minutes we looked for sites with a window overlooking the crossing most famous street of the city.

Another interesting site is a red steps under which the TKTS booths find a place where you can buy theater tickets at half price for the same day of the performance.
This is a place where every day they are huge queues in the afternoon, so it is very easy to locate the ticket if you will get to see a Broadway show.

As you have seen so far, Times Square is a great showcase for advertising, so in order to advertise prices are really prohibitive. To give you an idea, the neon cheaper the Coca-Cola, located just above the TKTS booths, and pay a year "only" $ 1 million due to an old contract.
Still, business is round, since it is estimated that every day about 2 million people pass through this square, and millions more see their ads through television, film or photographs as I'm sharing here you.

Like the rest of the city, Times Square is a place of enormous contrastra, so do not be surprised to see a Hummer limo, a Ferrari or a Lamborghini, and a few feet away a policeman on horseback patrolling the crowd. Indeed, the police are a little bastard, and when you try to get close to horses give a kick to move the head or just beginning to ride and leave.

There are plenty of souvenir shops, T-shirts, magnets, etc.. but are considerably more expensive than any other area of \u200b\u200bthe city. For example, on Fifth Avenue at the height of the Empire State on the last day I bought the majority of gifts and souvenirs at prices more reasonable than those I saw in Times Square.

In closing, one of the streets that define Times Square is another essential place, I mean the street 42, where are located many theaters, film and one of the most visited museums in the city, the Madame Tussauds wax museum.

On this street, even fast food restaurants have the appearance of large theaters with their peculiar canopies illuminated by hundreds of light bulbs.