Midtown-Times Square

Neighborhood · Manhattan

From Herald Square at 34th Street north to 59th Street, Midtown-Times Square covers the heart of Midtown Manhattan, taking in the Garment District and the Diamond District on West 47th Street.

  • 0.88 square miles
  • 25,575 residents, 2020 Census
  • 162 street corners
  • 14 subway stations
  • 71 bus routes

Times Square, once known as Longacre Square, sits where Broadway meets Seventh Avenue and 42nd Street and is the center of the city's Theater District. Rockefeller Center, a complex of commercial and entertainment buildings, includes Radio City Music Hall and a plaza that holds a skating rink and a Christmas tree in winter. The New York Public Library's Beaux-Arts flagship on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street dates from 1911.

Sources: Midtown Manhattan (Wikipedia); Times Square (Encyclopaedia Britannica); Rockefeller Center (Encyclopaedia Britannica); Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (New York Public Library).

Map

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Midtown-Times Square borders eight areas, and Avenue of the Americas holds more of its corners than any other street, 26 of 162.

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  • Midtown-Times Square
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 5 Av/59 St lines N R W
  • 57 St-7 Av lines N Q R W accessible
  • 57 St lines M accessible
  • 7 Av lines B D E
  • 50 St lines C E
  • 50 St lines 1
  • 5 Av/53 St lines E F
  • 49 St lines N R W
  • 47-50 Sts-Rockefeller Ctr lines B D F M accessible
  • 42 St-Port Authority Bus Terminal / Times Sq-42 St lines 1 2 3 7 A C E N Q R S W accessible
  • 42 St-Bryant Pk / 5 Av lines 7 B D F M
  • Grand Central-42 St lines S accessible
  • 34 St-Penn Station lines A C E accessible
  • 34 St-Herald Sq lines B D F M N Q R W accessible

Getting around

Fourteen subway stations and buses on 71 routes stop in or at the edge of Midtown-Times Square.

  • 14 subway stations
  • 7 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 19 local bus routes
  • 52 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • M1
  • M2
  • M3
  • M4
  • M5
  • M7
  • M10
  • M12
  • M20
  • M31
  • M34-SBS
  • M34A-SBS
  • M42
  • M50
  • M55
  • M57
  • M104
  • Q32
  • T260

Express bus routes

  • BM1
  • BM2
  • BM3
  • BM4
  • BM5
  • BxM2
  • BxM3
  • BxM4
  • BxM6
  • BxM7
  • BxM8
  • BxM9
  • BxM10
  • BxM11
  • BxM18
  • QM1
  • QM2
  • QM4
  • QM5
  • QM6
  • QM10
  • QM12
  • QM15
  • QM16
  • QM17
  • QM18
  • QM20
  • QM21
  • QM24
  • QM63
  • QM64
  • QM68
  • SIM1C
  • SIM3
  • SIM3C
  • SIM4C
  • SIM6
  • SIM8
  • SIM10
  • SIM11
  • SIM22
  • SIM23
  • SIM24
  • SIM25
  • SIM26
  • SIM30
  • SIM31
  • SIM33C
  • X27
  • X28
  • X37
  • X38

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Manhattan corner.

  • 3,046 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 18.8 a corner, on average
  • 13.4 the average Manhattan corner

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 97 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
85
Accessible pedestrian signals
26
Turn calming
11
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
3
Safety Improvement Projects
3

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more bus-lane camera tickets than red-light or school-zone speed tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 0 school-zone speed camera tickets
  • 18,728 bus-lane camera tickets at four corners
Most bus-lane tickets
Madison Avenue & East 50th Street, 8,043

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 25,575 residents in Midtown-Times Square, about 29,100 per square mile.

  • 19,914 homes, 2020 Census
  • 1,736 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 308 residential lots hold buildings from 1923 or earlier, and 72% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
9.6 acres of Bryant Park, as NYC Parks maps it within Midtown-Times Square
Designated landmarks
The Fashion Tower, the Mecca Temple, the Springs Mills Building and the Brill Building, among others

Streets and trees

Trees
1,304 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, maidenhair tree and London planetree
Street with the most corners
Avenue of the Americas, with 26 of the area's 162
Height above sea level
From 32 feet at 8th Avenue & West 37th Street to 84 feet at 7th Avenue & West 58th Street
Honorary street names
12 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists three schools and three libraries in Midtown-Times Square.

Public schools
2
Charter or private school
1
Libraries
53rd Street Library, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) and Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 38 bike-share stations stand in Midtown-Times Square. The City's public art inventory lists 14 works in the area, among them William Earl Dodge (1885), James Gordon Bennett Memorial (1895) and William Cullen Bryant (1911).

  • 38 bike-share stations
  • 14 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 2,455 major felonies at places in Midtown-Times Square.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Midtown-Times Square

  • 2,688 major felonies in 2024 233 fewer in 2025
  • 6,581 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Midtown-Times Square, the NYPD recorded another 821 major felonies.

Police precincts
18th (most of the area), 14th, 17th
Major felonies recorded at places in Midtown-Times Square, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 1,144 major felonies at places in Midtown-Times Square, against 1,201 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.