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Times Square
Times Square takes its name from The New York Times, which moved its headquarters to the newly built Times Tower at the square's center in 1904 and, that same year, threw the city's first New Year's Eve fireworks celebration there to mark the move — a tradition that evolved into the now-famous ball drop after fireworks were banned in 1907, and has continued in some form almost every year since. The square's density of illuminated billboards is actually mandated by New York City zoning law, which requires a minimum amount of lit signage on buildings within the district — a rare case of a city government legally requiring exactly the kind of visual spectacle Times Square has become globally famous for, rather than merely permitting it. Home to the Broadway Theater District's highest concentration of major venues, Times Square anchors an entertainment corridor that draws both tourists and theatergoers in numbers few other single intersections anywhere in the world can match, with an estimated 50 million visitors passing through annually. For a New York City attractions list, Times Square is the essential "the city's beating, blinking heart" entry — a zoning-mandated wall of light at the center of the Broadway theater district, still dropping the ball every New Year's Eve the way it has, in one form or another, since 1904.
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Central Park
Central Park opened in stages beginning in 1858, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvin Vaux, who won a public design competition with a plan called the "Greensward Plan" that deliberately built in winding paths, sunken transverse roads, and naturalistic landscaping to make an 843-acre rectangle in the middle of Manhattan feel like an escape from the surrounding grid of streets rather than an extension of it. Building the park required moving an enormous amount of earth and rock and displacing several existing communities, including Seneca Village, a settlement of primarily Black property owners that was cleared through eminent domain during construction — a history the park's own visitor centers have increasingly worked to document and acknowledge in recent decades. The park's sunken transverse roads, a genuinely innovative design solution for their time, let cross-town traffic pass through the park's width without pedestrians in the park itself ever seeing or hearing the cars, a piece of engineering still cited by urban planners as ahead of its era. Today the park draws an estimated 42 million visits a year, making it one of the most visited urban parks in the world. For a New York City attractions list, Central Park is the essential "the city's green lungs" entry — an 1858 landscape-design landmark that turned 843 acres of Manhattan bedrock into the most visited urban park in the country, still built exactly the way Olmsted and Vaux drew it.
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