Moaiad Khattab
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One Times Square
1904 -- The building, known as Times Tower, is completed by The New York Times at the south end of Long Acre Square, which is renamed Times Square. The Times boasts that its building is the tallest in New York City, which is true only if several subbasements extending far underground are counted.
1905 -- At midnight, The Times sponsors a New Year's Eve celebration at the base of its new building. It becomes an annual rite, growing in popularity and boisterousness.
1913 -- The Times moves its headquarters and begins transferring other operations to a larger building on West 43d Street, which it still occupies. (The company continues to own Times Tower until 1961.)
1928 -- The world's first Motogram, later known as the Zipper, begins operation, delivering five-foot-high flashing messages around a 360-foot-long track around Times Tower.
1945 -- On Aug. 14, at 7:03 P.M., with thousands crammed into Times Square, a Times electrician, Jim Torpey, embellishes one of the most historic messages to be sent along the Zipper, adding three stars -- for the United States Army, Navy and Air Force -- before and after the five-word phrase, ''OFFICIAL TRUMAN ANNOUNCES JAPANESE SURRENDER.''
1905 -- At midnight, The Times sponsors a New Year's Eve celebration at the base of its new building. It becomes an annual rite, growing in popularity and boisterousness.
1913 -- The Times moves its headquarters and begins transferring other operations to a larger building on West 43d Street, which it still occupies. (The company continues to own Times Tower until 1961.)
1928 -- The world's first Motogram, later known as the Zipper, begins operation, delivering five-foot-high flashing messages around a 360-foot-long track around Times Tower.
1945 -- On Aug. 14, at 7:03 P.M., with thousands crammed into Times Square, a Times electrician, Jim Torpey, embellishes one of the most historic messages to be sent along the Zipper, adding three stars -- for the United States Army, Navy and Air Force -- before and after the five-word phrase, ''OFFICIAL TRUMAN ANNOUNCES JAPANESE SURRENDER.''