Times Square, New York City (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)
Referenced In
Year of the Monkey
by Patti Smith"yet unconscious of the weather I went out without a raincoat, walking all the way to Times Square."
City of Night
by John Rechy"LATER I WOULD THINK OF AMERICA as one vast City of Night stretching gaudily from Times Square to Hollywood Boulevard —jukebox-winking, rock-n-roll-moaning: America at night fusing its darkcities into the unmistakable shape of loneliness."
City of Night
by John Rechy"Instead, I discovered the world of Times Square."
City of Night
by John Rechy"Tunes Square, New York, is an electric island floating on a larger island of lonesome parks and lonesome apartment houses and knifepointed buildings stretching Up. (I will think dazedly one night: Someday this city will tear its wharf‐lined fringes from the ocean and soar in desperation to the Sky...) Times Square is the magnet for all the lonesome exiles jammed into this city..."
City of Night
by John Rechy"At night, on my way to meet Mr. King, I walk through Times Square. And along that street—outside the Italian restaurant featuring squirming spaghetti for 40 a plate; before the racks of magazines with photographs of almost‑naked youngmen…"
City of Night
by John Rechy"THERE WAS A YOUNGMAN I HAD seen often around Times Square."
City of Night
by John Rechy"Pete was a familiar figure in that world of Times Square."
City of Night
by John Rechy"Remembering the man I had walked around Times Square with, wearing a jacket and cap, I began to laugh. “Not that,” Pete says, “we wont be walking around Times Square in leather.”"
City of Night
by John Rechy"and I decided to put down Times Square again—a pattern of guilt which would recur periodically."
City of Night
by John Rechy"I surrendered to the world of Times Square, and like a hype who needs more and more junk to keep going, I haunted that world not only at night now but in the mornings, the afternoons."
City of Night
by John Rechy"I saw him again, many times—in the movie theaters, in Bryant Park, on Times Square."
City of Night
by John Rechy"CITY OF NIGHT THE WORLD OF TIMES SQUARE was a world which I was certain I had sought out willingly… Trains grinding along the purgatorial subway tunnels […] expel the crowds—From All Points—at the Times Square stop."
City of Night
by John Rechy"Beside me, in this well-furnished apartment, stands a young malenurse, who has brought me here from Times Square."
City of Night
by John Rechy"Larry met you on Times Square; that is a world of its own."
City of Night
by John Rechy"New people would replace me on Times Square and in the park...."
City of Night
by John Rechy"A few of the people I had known were gone—even in that short time—back to the Midwest or to Times Square, or had been busted, or moved to Coffee Andy’s in Hollywood, or gone to Golden Miami."
City of Night
by John Rechy"I returned, soon, to Pershing Square, as, before, I had returned to Times Square...."
City of Night
by John Rechy"Along Times Square, in the midst of the dogged winter, when the wind lashes at the concrete City like an icy scythe, the tattered army of young vagrants will raise their collars shelteringly and receive the calling...."
City of Night
by John Rechy"I’ll search again through the labyrinthine world I had found on Times Square, in downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood, Market Street...."
City of Night
by John Rechy"I remember the man on Times Square. But I know that this time I will not be expected to walk around the streets in this man’s clothes."