0:00.0	Try to get across that slice it just wider the post.
0:05.0	How have they done enough?
0:07.0	Can they pull it out the back?
0:09.0	Does the ref have a clue?
0:11.0	When you're shouting at the screen, blow your whistle!
0:16.0	There's no feeling like live TV.
0:19.0	However you watch, a TV licence is your must-have pass to over 400 live TV channels
0:25.0	and it also funds the BBC, such TV licence.
0:30.0	The ball drops. I'm Jason Horton.
0:33.0	I'm Rebecca Leib.
0:34.0	And this is Ghost Town.
0:49.0	New York in 1904 was an exciting place to live.
0:52.0	The city was growing exponentially.
0:54.0	It even introduced a revolutionary new subway line.
0:58.0	To commemorate the city's technological leaps and bounds
1:01.0	and the relocation of the New York Times headquarters to Times Square,
1:05.0	Adolf Oaks, the owner of the New York Times, decided to throw a party, a big party.
1:11.0	Oaks had successfully lobbied the city to rename Longacre Square to Times Square
1:15.0	to honour his famous publications New Home.
1:18.0	Though a contemporary New York Times article credits Interborough Rapid Transit Company President August Belmont for having the idea.
1:25.0	Passive Times Tower, built on a tiny triangle of land at the intersection of 7th Avenue, Broadway and 42nd Street,
1:32.0	was at the time Manhattan's second tallest building,
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