Times Square nighttime electric canyon
— — a city that prints its own daylight after dark.
Not only on a wall.
“The bowtie of Broadway and Seventh, walled on every side by signs that pay rent in lumens. The light has no single source. It pours sideways off the buildings, off the windshields, off the faces tilted up at it. People speak more quietly than the place would suggest. The Crossroads of the World still earns the name long after midnight, when the screens keep working and the cabs keep coming and the silence between them gets surprisingly thin. from the studio
Times Square nighttime electric canyon, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Times Square sits in midtown Manhattan where Broadway cuts diagonally across Seventh Avenue between 42nd and 47th Streets. It was renamed in 1904 when The New York Times moved its headquarters to the new Times Tower at One Times Square. The pedestrian plazas, closed to car traffic in 2009, draw an estimated 50 million visitors a year, making the surrounding blocks one of the most-walked stretches of pavement in the world. The neon-and-LED zoning is unique to this district by city ordinance.
The square is the only place in New York City where buildings are legally required to display illuminated signs. The zoning rule, written into the 1987 Special Midtown District code, sets a minimum LUTS rating that each facade must meet. The result is a canyon lit from its walls rather than its sky, where storefront screens push enough lumens to read a newspaper at street level. The biggest displays, including the One Times Square wrap, run more than 25,000 square feet of LED surface.
The square never closes. The TKTS red-step staircase above the Father Duffy statue is open most afternoons and evenings; the New Year's Eve ball, in place atop One Times Square since 1907, drops once a year before roughly a million people on the ground. Subway access runs through the 42nd Street–Times Square station, the busiest in the system at over 60 million annual riders. Restaurants north of 47th tend to be quieter than the bowtie itself.