Stan O'Connor's Times Square Tour
The “Crossroads of the World” where Seventh Avenue is crossed by Broadway.
Statues of George M. Cohan, Mary Pickford, Marilyn Miller and Ethel Barrymore (yes, Drew Barrymore’s great-aunt).
Up to 38 Broadway theaters
(What is a Broadway theater? It has to conform to two rules. It must be (a) within one block of Broadway and (b) hold more than 499 seats.)
The Bertelsman Group
The Paramount Theater Building
The Brill Building (Google that right now!)
The Viacom Building -- teens know it for its afternoon live MTV show
The New York Times Building, from which they lower “the big ball” on New Year’s Eve
Signature stores
Spectacular signs
Tremendous numbers of people (about 40,000 attend Broadway shows on an average evening; up to a million attend the annual New Year‘s Rockin‘ Eve spectacular)
Times Square for kids: explanation of the “BMG” in rented videos, location of Nickelodeon studios, gigantic entertaining LED signs, and a VERY large toy store with its own Ferris wheel.