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Times Square Manhattan.  Ablaze with lights and activity on the 4th of July, as seen from the dramatic perspective of a helicopter at night.

Started out as Long Acres Square in the late 1800’s, named after Long Acre in London as a center for the horse carriage industry. William Vanderbilt owned and operated the American Horse Exchange here. Later nicked as Thieves Lair as “low” entertainment moved northward from the Tenderloin district.

Oscar Hammerstein’s Olympia Theater was the first theater on the square. By the early 1890s this once sparsely settled stretch of Broadway was ablaze with electric light and thronged by crowds of middle- and upper-class theatre, restaurant and cafe patrons.

It was renamed Times Square in 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building, the site of the annual ball drop which began on December 31, 1907, and continues today, attracting over a million visitors to Times Square every New Year’s Eve.