Times Square? the NEW YORK TIMES! (and down by Macy's(34th Street) is HERALD SQUARE-(with a statue of Horace Greeley(Go West, young man)named for the NY HERALD.

What is special about Herald square, Times Square, Duffy Square, etc., and many of NY's other Square's all along B'way?

B'way cross most of NY gridwork of Streets and Avenues at an angle, --that is not a right angle, but an acute angle (Avenues) and the resulting triangular intersections are called squares.

B'way, a pre-european trail, does not conform to the strict gridwork imposed on most of Manhattan.


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