One Times Square

One Times Square is the name of a skyscraper in Times Square in New York City. It was originally called The Times Tower.

The house Times Square No. 1 ( the translation into German) was designed by the architect Cyrus LW Eidlitz built from 1903 to 1905 as a publishing and business buildings of the New York Times. With 25 floors and a height of 110 meters, it was the time of opening of the tallest buildings in New York. It solved in this position from the Flatiron Building. 1928 was taken for financial news in operation with the Times Square ticker a precursor of the vast, surrounding the building news ticker Dow Jones.

In 1913 the editors of the New York Times was largely moved to another building. Until 1961 the newspaper publishing business, here is a classified ads section. 1961 One Times Square was sold and then changed visually strong. The narrow side to Times Square is lined with oversized billboards and LED screens of the original facade is nothing more now remained.

The lower three floors are now used as a Walgreens pharmacy. In addition, the building is uninhabited since 1996, because the cost to bring it to current state of climate technically, would be too high and in the acute-angled floor plan, the rental income would be lower than the current use as a carrier of large format billboards.

Since 1907, lowered the flag pole of the building at the turn of the luminous Times Square Ball. This ball drop begins 60 seconds before midnight and one of the highlights of the American New Year's Eve celebrations. The latest ball has a diameter of 4 meters.