미국여행 뉴욕 타임스퀘어 인포메이션 센터 / NEW YORK TIMES SQUARE INFORMATION CENTER 뉴욕과 관련된 정보를 얻자

미국에 와서 뉴욕 구경을 마구 했었네여~ ^^ 다임스퀘어 야경도 보면서요~
2010/05/12 - [여행 Travel] - 미국여행 - 뉴욕 타임 스퀘어 야경 New York Times Square/ 전세계 기업들의 광고판이자 뉴욕 관광객들의 불야성

그리고 메디슨스퀘어가든에 있는 서점도 구경했었죠?
2010/05/14 - [여행 Travel] - 미국여행 - 뉴욕 보더스 BORDERS / 메디슨 스퀘어가든 Madison Square Garden 에 있는 뉴욕의 서점

오늘은 뉴욕의 타임스퀘어에 있는 뉴욕인포메이션센터에 들려봤어요
구굴의 스트리트 뷰에 보니 자세히 나와있군요 ^^



크게 보기

들어가기 전에 tkts ^^ 맞은 편에 바로 뉴욕 타임스퀘어 인포메이션 센터 / TIMES SQUARE INFORMATION CENTER 의 간판이 보이는 군요 ^^
인포메이션 INFORMATION 의 약자 인 i 만 보이네여 ^^

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INFORMATION
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TIMES
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라면서 ^^

타임스퀘어 인포메이션 센터임을 알려주세네여~

INFORMATION CENTER

인포메이션 센터 입구에 바로 샹데리아 조명이 있네여 ^^

입구에여~ ^^

인포메이션 센터로 들어가다 보니 화장실 RESTROOM 이 보이네여
뉴욕에서 화장실 찾기 쉽지 않죠? ㅎㅎ 타임스퀘어에서 쉽게 갈 수 있는 곳 중의 한 곳 입니다 ^^

RESTROOM

인포메이션 센터로 들어가는 중 양쪽 벽에 동영상이 보이네여 ^^
뉴욕과 관련된 또는 예전에 나온 동영상들이 보여지고 있어요~

한쪽 벽에 뉴욕 브로드웨이의 뮤지컬과 관련된 사진 및 설명이 있더군요~

사진 위주로 둘러봤어요 ^^

타임스퀘어 인포메이션 센터 / TIMES SQUARE INFORMATION CENTER 안으로 들어가니 붉은 빛을 내는 공<?> 이 보이는군요~ 이건 뭐지?

New Year's Eve Centennial Ball

그 옆에 설명이 되어 있네여

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The Times Square
New Year's Eve Centennial Ball

For over a century, revelers have traveled to Times Square to celebrate the New Year by counting down the final seconds as a ball descends atop One Times Square. The first Ball, introduced by The New York Times in 1907, festured 100 25-watt incandescent bulbs - the latest lighting technology at the time. The ball has always been a physical symbol of second chances, new starts, powerful memories and the promise of the future = the ultimate Times Square fusion of tradition with cutting-edge technology.

In honor of the 100th Anniversary of the ball-lowering tradition, the Times Square Alliance and Countdown Enterainment, co-producers of the Times Square New Year's EveCelebration, commissioned Waterford Crystal and the Philips Lighting Company to craft the Ball Displayed here, for the celebration on December 31st 2007. This Ball is covered thieh 672 Waterford Crystal triangles and illuminated by 9,576 Philips Luxeon LEDs. The Lighting designer if Focus Lighting. The Times Square New Year's Eve  Ball is the property of the owners of One Times Square, Jamestown and Sherwood Equities, and was replaced in 2008 by the current Ball, now permanently situated atop One Times Square.

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ㅎㅎ 그렇다는군요 ^^;

Times Square New Year's Eve Ball

가운데 부스에서 브로드웨이 티켓 Broadway Thckets 을 팔고 있네여 ^^ 티켓박스 tkts에서도 할인된 공연표를 팔기도 하지만 이곳에서 사니 줄을 길게 안서 좋더군요~

브로드웨이 티켓

그 옆에서 예전 고전 영화를 틀어주고 있고 ^^ 사람들이 이것 저것 묻고 있더군요~

nycgo.com 이라는 홈페이지 주소가 눈에 띄네여 ^^

nycgo.com

뉴욕시공식안내홈페이지 The Official New York City Guide http://www.nycgo.com/

에 들어가보니 뉴욕관광과 관련된 정보가 잘 정리되어 있네여~ 단 영어로 되어있어요~

The Official New York City Guide

우측에 보니 언어선택을 할 수 있네여 ^^ 한국어 Korean 을 선택을 하니 한국어 페이지가 있는게 아니라 뉴욕시공식안내홈페이지 The Official New York City Guide를 구글번역 Google translate 를 통해 보여주는 군요~ 해석이 어색하긴 하지만 그래도 볼 만 하군요~ ^^

구글번역 Google translate

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.nycgo.com/&hl=en&langpair=auto|ko&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8

뉴욕시공식안내홈페이지

다시 뉴욕 타임스퀘어 인포메이션 센터 / NEW YORK TIMES SQUARE INFORMATION CENTER 로 돌아와보죠 ^^ 그 안에~ 뉴욕 NEW YORK 및 타임스퀘어 TIMES SQUARE 와 관련된 각종 기념품을 판매하고 있더군요~

옷도있구요~

옷

열쇠고리요 ^^ 많이 흔들렸네여~... 생각보다 비쌌던것 같아요 5불 전후 였던것 같던데~

열쇠고리

컵도 있고.. 사진도 있고요 ^^ 둘러볼만해요~

타임스퀘어 TIMES SQUARE 라고 적혀 있는 물통<?> 도 보이는군요~ 타임스퀘어 TIMES SQUARE 만 적혀 있는데~... ㅎㅎ

타임스퀘어물통

각종 셔츠와 모자 등도 보이고요 오페라의 유령 관련 퍼즐도 보이네여 ^^

셔츠 모자

ㅎㅎ 나오다 보니 시카고뮤지컬을 선전하는 배우와 함께 한컷 찍었어요 ^^
배우 표정이 압권이죠? ^^~ 저도 뉴욕양키즈 공식 모자 하나 샀고요~
손에 여러가지 뮤지컬과 관련된 전단지를 들고 나왔네여~...

들고나온 전단지 팜플렛을 스캔해 봤어요 ^^

타임스퀘어 TIMES SQUARE 에 대한 설명과 지도가 들어있어요~
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TIMES SQUARE
YOUR GUIDE TO THE
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TIMES SQUARE

뒤쪽에는 타임스퀘어 TIMES SQUARE 에 대한 설명이 들어있네여 ^^
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TIMES SQUARE
WHERE MODERN AMERICA WAS INVENTED
Times Square: where modern America was invented. It's not a square at all. Just a ten-block bowtie where an old Native American trail - Broadway - meets Seventh Avenue. Until the 20th,century, Long Acre Square, as it was known, was a busy commercial center, a fancy neighborhood, a secretive address for brothels and the home of horse stables.

Then in 1903 The New York Times began building its headquarters there and convinced the city to change the area's name to Times Square on April 8, 1904. That October, the Times Square subway station opened. And then on December 31: 1904, the official opening of the Times Building was accompanied by a New Year's Eve celebration that continues to this day, centered on that same bulldlng.
 
- ENTERTAINING AMERICA
This is where Americans devise new ways to entertain themselves. Following the brothels, Times Square quickly became home to the densest collection of theaters in America. These theaters showcased not Old World opera, but the new popular culture born of America's immigrant stew vaudeville and musicals, jazz and the movies.

- SIGNS OF THE TIMES
The most popular spectacles of Times Square have always been free - the electrical signs that gave Broadway its reputation as "The Great White Way." Over the course of the past hundred years, Times Square has become the outdoor laboratory for new ways to communicate and advertise in a vast metropolis and throughout the nation.
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1903년 뉴욕타임즈에서 건물을 지어 1904년 4월 8일 타임스퀘어라고 명명했군요 ^^ 100년이 넘었네여~

WHERE MODERN AMERICA WAS INVENTED

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- MAKING NEWS
Times Square is also where American news was made. It wasn't just that the  country's most important newspaper was produced here or that the "zipper" around the Times Building told New Yorkers of the world's news instantaneously. It was here that writers like Walter Winchell and Damon Runyon perfected the punchy reporting style, the gossip column, and the use of slang that redefined what news was how it was to be written and reported, and what counted.

- LAND OF DESIRE
Times Square has literally sold sex for well over a century, with prostitution and sex theaters defining the area for much of the post-World War II era. But in a larger sense, Times Square was a place where boundaries could be pushed and broken, and desire expressed. It is no accident that, in Times Square, women could challenge the rules of dating, and gays and lesbians could find a greater level of freedom than they found elsewhere in the city.
 
- THE CROWD
Times Square blossomed in the first third of the twentieth century, only to slide into notorious decay in the face of the post1945 world of television, suburbs, and racial strife. As Times Square has returned in the past two decades, the crowds that first made the place have also returned, quickly displacing 

the memories of the down years. Today, Times Square remains the place where New 'Yorkers celebrate, not just on New Year's Eve and not just at moments of great national achievement, but every day when the lights go down.
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그 안에는 타임스퀴어 근처의 볼거리에 대해 간단하게 안내되어 있네여 ^^
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SIGHTS TO SEE

- DUFFY SQUARE
46th Street (between Broadway & 7th Avenue)
The newly redesigned and revitalized Duffy Square is a new icon at the Crossroads of the World. Perkins Eastman has transformed Choi Ropiha's competition-winning concept into the most sophisticated all-glass structure in the world, which shines atop a Duffy Square plaza redesigned by William Fellows. Duffy Square hosts the world-famous     TKTS booth, where reduced-price tickets to Broadway's best are sold. The plaza also features two statues - the first is a tribute to World War I hero and pastor of the nearby Holy Cross Church, Father Patrick Duffy, and a second honors Broadway legend George M. Cohan.

- ONE TIMES SQUARE
42nd Street (at Broadway & 7th Avenue)
Every December 31st, an estimated audience of over one billion worldwide watch as the famous New Year's Ball is lowered from the flagpole atop One Times Square (the original headquarters of The New York Times, for which Times Square is named).

- MUSIC AND LAUGHTER
The Brill Building at 1619 Broadway changed the course of music history. Some refer to the building and its environs as "Tin Pan Alley," home to the likes of Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. On nearby Music Row (48th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues), you can still see one of the world's greatest concentrations of stores and shops serving musicians and composers. Meanwhile, comedy's biggest superstars can be found onstage at local stand-Up hotspots like Carolines on Broadway.

- ATTRACTIONS & STORES
Be sure to visit neighborhood attractions such as Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, Ripley's Believe it or Not Odditorium, ESPN Zone, the Hard Rock Cafe, Planet Hollywood, Mars 2112 and two 0 NYC's most impressive movie houses. Times Square’s flagship store include Hershey’s, M&M’s, Toys “R”
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SIGHTS TO SEE

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Us, American Eagle, Sephora and Walgreens. Form a galaxy of chocolate to an indoor carousel and animatronics dinosaur, Times Square is the place to truly experience "retailtainment"!

- SIGNS, SIGNS, SIGNS
The Hershey's sign is the tallest. Walgreens' is the largest. Coca-Cola's is an electronic marvel, M&M's is among the most fun and MTV's features some of the most creative content. And they're all changing all the time! But which Times Square "spectacular" captures your attention?

- THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT
As the entertainment capital of the world, it's no surprise that Times Square is host to some of today’s hottest TV shows. Every morning, spectators gather outside Times Square Studios to watch the live broadcast of Good Morning America.

- RESTAURANT ROW
46th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)
Times Square's own foodie mecca is the quintessential example of everything that makes the Crossroads of the World unique. On this tree-lined strip of brownstones, you can enjoy cuisine from allover the world, sample the styles of celebrity chefs like B. Smith and Lidia Bastianich, and stargaze at Broadway headliners in some of their favorite haunts.

- HISTORIC THEATERS
Times Square hosts more historic theaters than almost any place on earth, and some of the neighborhood's best known playhouses have been lovingly restored by the Jujamcyn Organization, Disney and the New 42nd Street, Inc. Highlights include Shubert Alley, home to the gorgeous facades of some of the grandest Broadway theatres and host of famous productions for over a century, as well as the gloriously restored New Amsterdam and New Victory Theaters on 42nd Street.
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ㅎㅎ 뉴욕에 볼거리 너무 많군요^^

HISTORIC THEATERS

뉴욕시공식안내홈페이지 The Official New York City Guide http://www.nycgo.com/ 에서 나온

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Official Visitor Map 2010
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2010년 공식 방문객 지도 이네여 ^^ 뉴욕지도를 들고다니면서 보기 괜찮아요~

Official Visitor Map

뉴욕시공식안내홈페이지 The Official New York City Guide http://www.nycgo.com/ 에서 나온
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Official Visitor Guide Winter 2010
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2010년 공식 방문객 가이드 이네여 ^^ 뉴욕의 여러 볼거리에 대해 설명되어 있어요 단 영어로만 되어 있어요 ^^;

Official Visitor Guide

씨티가이드뉴욕 NY City Guide for New York City http://www.cityguideny.com/

에서 나온 씨티가이드 CITY GUIDE 이네여 ^^
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NYC'S ORIGINAL CITY GUIDE
MARCH 18, 2010
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영어로 되어 있으며 뉴욕의 간단한 소개와 쇼핑거리 전시회 및 박물관 공연 호텔 등에 설명되어 있어요~

NY CITY GUIDE

뉴욕 다국어가이드 NEW YORK Miltilingual Guide http://www.vgp.com/ 에서 나왔네여~
스페인어 독일어 중국어 이탈리아어 포루투칼어 일본어 영어 불어 한국어 등으로 설명이 되어 있어 좋더군요~

Miltilingual Guide

다국어가이드 Miltilingual Guide http://www.vgp.com/ 홈페이지에 들어가보니

Miltilingual Guide

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영어와 같은 화면에 한글로 설명이 되어 있네여~ ㅎㅎ 좋군요~

다국어가이드

그 이외에 각종 전단지 입니다 ^^

하드록카페
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Hard Rock CAFE NEW YORK

남태평양 ^^ 요건 잘 모르던건데~
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시카고 ^^ 유명하죠~
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THE MUSICAL CHICAGO

영화로도 나와서 크게 인기를 끈 뮤지컬 맘마미아네여
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한국어 설명이 없어 조금 아쉽지만 ㅎㅎ 그래도 유명하죠~

THE LION KING

빌리엘리어트~ ㅎㅎ 유명하죠~
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BILLY ELLIOT

뮤지컬 코메디
101마리의 달마시안
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101 DALMATIANS MUSICAL

ㅎㅎ 소개해 드릴 것이 너무 많네여~ 그래도 뉴욕 타임스퀘어에 가신다면 잠시라도 시간을 내서 들리면 좋을 것 같네여~ ^^ 아 화장실을 이용하고 싶으실때도요 ㅎㅎ