Duffy Square

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Duffy Square is the northern triangle of Times Square in New York City. It is located between 45th and 47th Streets, Broadway and Seventh Avenue. It is a popular tourist destination and is well known for housing TKTS, a destination point for those in search of reduced-price theater tickets.

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, Francis P. Duffy, and one in the south depicting composer, playwright, and actor George M. Cohan.

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• STATUE OF PURITY FOR TIMES SQUARE; New York Times Oct 5, 1909
• NYC Parks