Longacre square is now better known as what ?
Longacre square is now better known as what? Answer 2 Follow Request Details More Ad by basicofinvesting.com What is the best demat account in India in terms of charges, services, and facilities? 3 years ago I had a similar question and these were the parameters I used to finalize on the one * Cost - It is the most important c Continue reading in feed 29 Related Recommended  Nusrath Fathima · Follow Studied Engineering & MS Junior College (Graduated 2018)2y Longacre Square renamed “Times Square” janos marton 04/08/2015 ARTS & CULTURE, NEW YORK  Photo from Library of Congress Times Square has become so synonymous with New York City that many visitors and residents alike don’t stop to think about where the name came from. This origin story goes back 111 years, to April 8, 1904, when Mayor George McClellan renamed Longacre Square for the proud newspaper that had just relocated to the block. The name Longacre Square dated back to the 1870s, when the uptown carriage hub was named after Long Acre Square in London, where carriages similarly congregated. Longacre was at the heart of a neighborhood broadly known as the Tenderloin, or Satan’s Circus. In 1901, the area from 37th to 47th street, from 5th Avenue to 8th Avenue, was home to 132 brothels and at least as many saloons. On the less shady side of things, Oscar Hammerstein had a multi-theater entertainment complex there called the Olympia. Sounds like a wild scene.