http://www.timessquarenyc.org/visitor-tips/history/index.aspx#.V1I3X-n9S0c http://www.britannica.com/topic/Times-Square Time Square was known as long Acre square and consisted of lots of open space and drab apartments in the late 1880s and had an unsavory reputation as the center of illicit activity in the 1890s. The square was renamed in 1904 for The New York Times which moved their new offices in […]