Every year more than 46 million people come to New York City, and primarily the areas of Duffy Square, Herald Square, Theater District and so forth. As the year ends, it is anticipate that this year even more people are going to show up for the New Year's Eve party in Duffy Square. Duffy Square is also know as Father Francis D. Duffy Monument. It is at the northern triangle of Times Square located between 45th and 47th Streets, Broadway and Seventh Avenue. It is a major destination for tourists and is well known because it houses TKTS, a place for getting discount tickets..

 

In the 18th and 19th centuries Lowes Lane connected Bloomingdale Road to Eastern 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, but Bloomingdale Road survives under the name of Broadway.

Duffy Square was once dominated by a fifty-foot, eight-ton statue entitled Purity (Defeat of Slander) by Leo Lentelli in the early twentieth century. Now the square has two statues, one in the North of the square's namesake, Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York's Fighting 69th Infantry Regiment, and one in the south depicting composer, playwright, and actor George M. Cohan by sculptor Georg J. Lober. (sources Wikipedia)