Times Square’s Crushing Success Raises Questions About Its Future

Times Square’s Crushing Success Raises Questions About Its Future

The New York Times
January 26, 2015

[…] The same reason that retailers and advertisers lust after a Times Square location is the same reason that others now find it unbearable: the crowds.

Some office workers and corporate clients complain bitterly of having to navigate thick and sometimes unyielding knots of tourists in various hot spots — including a giant video billboard outside the “Good Morning America” studios and a digital wraparound sign at the Marriott Marquis Hotel — just to get in and out of office buildings. […]