Marshall Bermans kritikerroste beskrivelse av Times Squares historie. Fra dette trafikkerte krysningspunktet ses utviklingen av amerikansk kultur - teateret og Broadway, jazzen og populærmusikken, til dagens hyperneonifiserte utstilling for tv og multimedia. En bok for dem med interesse for New Yorks historie.

The discourse of nostalgia in Times Square often gravitates toward the 1940s, the age of World War Two and its prosperous aftermath. Survivors an memoirists of these years portray a New York that may have been physically distinct from the rest of America, but that culturally blended in with it and that had the capacity to incarnate it. In Alfred Eisenstaedt's Life photopgraph of the sailor and the nurse embracing in the Square as the Japanese surrender, we see an historical moment free of the tension between "New York" and "America" that marked American culture in the sixties and seventies, when I was growing up... -fra boken