Urban places in North America

Times Square is really not a square but a major crossroads of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. It is right in the theater district with all the famous Broadway shows along, well, Broadway. There are the usual range of McDonald's, Ripley's Believe or Not and other odditoriums along with tourist knick-knacks and toy stores. You might even meet the "naked cowboy", famous for playing guitar only dressed in boxers and a cowboy hat. But it is the density of electrical billboards and neon signs that has made Times Square iconic. Every building facade is covered in flashing LED displays and light bulbs, and today there are even city laws that demand building owners to put up light displays.