- Duffy Square
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Father Francis D. Duffy Statue
and Duffy Square
Father Duffy Monument
Location: Triangle bounded by Broadway, Seventh Ave., W. 47th. and W. 46th St., New York, New York Coordinates: 40°45′32″N 73°59′7″W / 40.75889°N 73.98528°WCoordinates: 40°45′32″N 73°59′7″W / 40.75889°N 73.98528°W Built: 1937 Architect: Keck, Charles Architectural style: Classical Revival Governing body: Local NRHP Reference#: 01000243 Added to NRHP: March 12, 2001[1] Duffy Square is the northern triangle of Times Square in Manhattan, New York City. It is located between 45th and 47th Streets, Broadway and Seventh Avenue and is well known for the TKTS reduced-price theater tickets booth located there.
In the 18th and 19th centuries Lowes Lane connected Bloomingdale Road to Eastern Post Road. The west end of the lane was at the modern Duffy Square, and the east end at approximately the modern Third Avenue and 42nd Street. Lowes Lane and Eastern Post Road were suppressed late in the 19th century, but Bloomingdale Road survives under the name of Broadway.
Duffy Square was briefly dominated by a fifty-foot, eight-ton plaster statue entitled Purity (Defeat of Slander) by Leo Lentelli in 1909.[2] Now the square has two statues, one of Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York's Fighting 69th Infantry Regiment, after whom the square is named, and another depicting composer, playwright, producer and actor George M. Cohan, by sculptor Georg J. Lober.[3] The square and the statue of Father Duffy were dedicated by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia on May 2, 1937.[4] The statue of Duffy and the square itself were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.[1]
Gallery
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A 1904 photo of north end of Times Square before the creation of Duffy Square
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The TKTS reduced-price theatrical ticket booth on 47th Street
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The red steps behind the statue of Father Duffy are the roof of the TKTS booth
References
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- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ "Statue of Purity for Times Square". The New York Times. October 5, 1909. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00C17F9395A12738DDDAC0894D8415B898CF1D3. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
- ^ Staff. "Georg J. Lober, 69, Sculptor is Dead; Ex-Head of Art Commission Here--Did Cohan Statue", The New York Times, December 15, 1961. Accessed October 7, 2008.
- ^ "Transforming Times Square: Father Duffy Square and the New TKTS Booth". http://www.timessquarenyc.org/facts/newduffy.html. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
External links
Categories:- New York County, New York Registered Historic Place stubs
- Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Manhattan
- National Register of Historic Places in New York City
- Times Square
- Squares in New York City
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