Father Duffy Square

Broadway, W. 46 St. To W. 47 St., 7 Ave.

Manhattan

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This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.

The northern triangle of Times Square, located between 45^th and 47^th Streets, Broadway and Seventh Avenue, Duffy Square, has been a magnet for tourists, a staging area for public rallies, the scene of victory celebrations, and since 1973 a destination point for those in search of reduced-price theater tickets. Dominated in 1909 by a temporary eight-ton, fifty-foot statue by Leo Lentelli entitled Purity (Defeat of Slander), today this square—so central to the theater district--is defined by statues of George M. Cohan and Father Duffy, as well as a large public viewing grandstand along the north side.

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