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Modern Marvels (1993 – ...)

1993 • 23 seasons • Documentary • TV-PG
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Season 8

Modern Marvels · S8E36 — Times Square

Nov 27, 2001 · 44 min

Synopsis

Times Square, New York City—the so-called Crossroads of the World—is a clamorous reflection of our culture and era. It embodies urban life stretched to its extreme: the most intensely charged, immediate, crowded, and lively place within the world’s most vibrant city. A district unlike any other, constantly reinventing itself, it fell into disrepute during the 1970s, a period marked by crime and degradation, before being transformed in the nineties into something of an unconventional destination