Father Francis P. Duffy Statue and Duffy Square | |
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| Location | Triangle bounded by Broadway, Seventh Ave., W. 45th and W. 47th Streets, New York, New York |
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| Coordinates | 40°45′32″N73°59′7″W / 40.75889°N 73.98528°W /40.75889; -73.98528 |
| Built | 1937 |
| Architect | Charles Keck |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 01000243 |
| NYSRHP No. | 06101.011582 |
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| Added to NRHP | March 12, 2001[1] |
| Designated NYSRHP | December 8, 2000 |
Duffy Square, officially namedFather Duffy Square in 1939, is the northern triangle ofTimes Square inManhattan, New York City. It is bounded by45th and47th Streets,Broadway andSeventh Avenue. It is now well known for theTKTS reduced-price theater tickets booth located there.
In the 18th and 19th centuries Lowes Lane connected Bloomingdale Road toEastern Post Road. The west end of the lane was at the modern Duffy Square, and the east end at approximately the modern Third Avenue and 42nd Street. Lowes Lane and Eastern Post Road were suppressed late in the 19th century with the introduction Manhattan's grid street pattern, but Bloomingdale Road survives under the name of Broadway.
Duffy Square was briefly dominated by a fifty-foot, eight-ton plaster statue entitledPurity (Defeat of Slander) byLeo Lentelli in 1909.[2] Now the square has two statues: abronze statue of ChaplainFrancis P. Duffy of New York's"Fighting 69th" Infantry Regiment, after whom the square is named, sculpted byCharles Keck, and anotherstatue depicting composer, playwright, producer and actorGeorge M. Cohan, by sculptorGeorg J. Lober.[3] The statue of Duffy was dedicated by MayorFiorello LaGuardia on May 2, 1937, who also signed the law authorizing the renaming of the square to "Father Duffy Square" on March 29, 1939; on June 13 of that year, the street signs were changed.[4] The statue of Duffy and the square itself were listed on theNational Register of Historic Places in 2001.[1][5]
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