Duffy Square is the northern triangle of Times Square in New York City. Times Square is a major intersection in Manhattan, New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West The City of New York It is located between 45th and 47th Streets, Broadway and Seventh Avenue. 47th Street is an east-west running street between First Avenue and the West Side Highway in the borough of Manhattan in New York City Broadway, as the name implies is a wide avenue in New York City. Seventh Avenue / Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard is a thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is a popular tourist destination and is well known for housing TKTS, a destination point for those in search of reduced-price theater tickets. The TKTS ticket booths in New York and London sell Broadway and West End theatre tickets respectively at discounts of 25–50% off the face
In the 18th and 19th centuries Lowes Lane connected Bloomingdale Road to Eastern Post Road. The Boston Post Road was a system of Post roads from New York City to Boston Massachusetts, containing some of the first major highways in the United 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 once dominated by a fifty-foot, eight-ton statue entitled Purity (Defeat of Slander) by Leo Lentelli in the early twentieth century. Now the square has two statues, one in the North of the square's namesake, Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York's Fighting 69th Infantry Regiment, and one in the south depicting composer, playwright, and actor George M. Cohan. Francis Patrick Duffy (1871 - 1932 was a Roman Catholic Priest. } The 69th Infantry Regiment is a military unit from New York City, part of the New York Army National Guard. George Michael Cohan ( July 3, 1878 &ndash November 5, 1942) was a United States Entertainer, Playwright,
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- STATUE OF PURITY FOR TIMES SQUARE; New York Times Oct 5, 1909
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