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LOL, I love London but Piccadilly Circus is a joke compared to Times Square.
I remember taking a friend from the US to London and driving up to what I described as "London's version of Times Square", and when I drove through she started laughing.
Yea! When I saw pictures of it I was thinking the same myself, I just didn't want to say anything . I saw the pic and was like whaaaa???lol. Accoriding to what I've seen in pictures, they only have one building with neon lights and advertisements right?
How does piccadilly circus compare to times square in any way shape or form. And what area in asia is as hardbody as times square. Tokyo has places that have neon lights and such but no single strip is as impressive as times square
And also ppl need to stop saying nyers avoid times square. Any new yorker who says that is trying to hard to sound like a "real" new yorker. Times square is a visual masterpiece and i never get tired of looking at it. The energy you get by just walking through there is amazing
ALSO: I am a real New Yorker. And I do avoid Times Square. I had an exchange student from Turkey last year and we took them to Times Square--that was fun. It's fun to see, every once in a while, but "a visual masterpiece" I'm not sure it is. Unless you like that huge corporate cable-news/magazine-ad aesthetic. Many people do.
ALSO: I am a real New Yorker. And I do avoid Times Square. I had an exchange student from Turkey last year and we took them to Times Square--that was fun. It's fun to see, every once in a while, but "a visual masterpiece" I'm not sure it is. Unless you like that huge corporate cable-news/magazine-ad aesthetic. Many people do.
Shibuya actually looks less impressive from an aerial view.Basically one building with trons. TS has way more screens and "pazzaz" . Times square is trons and lights amongst skyscrapers ,shibuya definently loses to me
And tims square is a visual masterpiece. The fact that its being copied from city's all over the world kind of proves that. Cant beat the original
Shibuya actually looks less impressive from an aerial view.Basically one building with trons. TS has way more screens and "pazzaz" . Times square is trons and lights amongst skyscrapers ,shibuya definently loses to me
Its not one building - basically the entire city of Tokyo looks like a low-rise Times Square, it blew my mind when I visited.
Its not one building - basically the entire city of Tokyo looks like a low-rise Times Square, it blew my mind when I visited.
And I'm a New Yorker.
It can look impressive. But really most of it is all neon lights and billboards filled with an over abundance of gambling venues, arcades and karaokee bars. Miles and miles of them. After a while I would think that type of crap would be bothersome if not nauseating.
If it is any consilation, I don't care much for Times square either. Of course I am almost like a NY'er since I live close and have been to Manhattan more times than I can count. Like many have said most NY'ers stay clear of Times square.
I guess you could easily call me twisted or weird but I like the old Times square with hookers, pimps, drug dealers, and millions of sex shops and peep holes. Whatever, I guess to each his own. The soul of NY when pertaining to Times square has been disneyfied,--Yuck. The same thing can be said for many Japanese cities with their miles upon miles of gambling venues, karoakee bars, neon lights and eateries. Which I think that the dining is the only good part.
If it is any consilation, I don't care much for Times square either. Of course I am almost like a NY'er since I live close and have been to Manhattan more times than I can count. Like many have said most NY'ers stay clear of Times square.
Agreed. I like that Times Square exists, but generally avoid it at all costs.
My point was that there are plenty of "sensory-overload" locations throughout Asia - Times Square doesn't necessarily trump them all as some seem to be suggesting.
Good video. The pilot program for closing Broadway in Times Square and Herald Square has been an enormous success. As the video shows, it made great new public spaces, and there have been improvements to the congestion on 6th and 7th avenues, because the diagonal traffic pattern on Broadway is gone. It's a win-win. I believe the city has decided just recently that the new traffic pattern will now be permanent, and I think the city will be making the new space "feel" more permanent by removing or covering over the roadbed, etc.
Good video. The pilot program for closing Broadway in Times Square and Herald Square has been an enormous success. As the video shows, it made great new public spaces, and there have been improvements to the congestion on 6th and 7th avenues, because the diagonal traffic pattern on Broadway is gone. It's a win-win. I believe the city has decided just recently that the new traffic pattern will now be permanent, and I think the city will be making the new space "feel" more permanent by removing or covering over the roadbed, etc.
This is totally fascinating. Before I saw the video, I had no idea that Times Square had been pretty much closed off to traffic. Makes me want to be a dorky tourist and go see it all the more.
My first instinct was to ask, "wow, what does that do to the traffic flow in midtown?" If the answer is "pretty much nothing" then this seems like a great idea.
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. I saw the pic and was like whaaaa???lol. Accoriding to what I've seen in pictures, they only have one building with neon lights and advertisements right? 
