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News New Times Square Center To Open Sept. 2; B.I.D. Expects 20 Million Visitors A Year On Sept. 2, the chandeliers and lights inside the old Embassy Theatre at 1560 Broadway (between 46th and 47th Streets) will glow again, as the building begins its new life as the Times Square Visitors Center. The previous Center, on 42nd Street, was housed in a building that collapsed Dec. 30, 1997.
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On Sept. 2, the chandeliers and lights inside the old Embassy Theatre at 1560 Broadway (between 46th and 47th Streets) will glow again, as the building begins its new life as the Times Square Visitors Center. The previous Center, on 42nd Street, was housed in a building that collapsed Dec. 30, 1997. The Times Square Business Improvement District expects the 5,000 sq. ft. center will draw 20 million people annually. Patrons will be able to buy full-price theatre tickets at the venue, as well as get sightseeing information, take bus tours, get multilingual tourism information, use six automated tellers and internet stations, buy MTA metrocards, exchange currency and buy international newspapers.

Designed to comply with the venue's landmark status, the building's renovations were made by F. J. Sciame Construction Company, at a cost of $1 million. The original Embassy was built in 1925 and used as an MGM movie theatre. In the change-over to this landmarked (1987) venue, the seats will be removed and a new, patterned floor will be put in.

BID President Gretchen Dykstra said of the Center, "It will be open all day, every day...the perfect example of building the new Times Square on the roots of the old."

Members of the press will be allowed into the Center Sept. 1 to witness a historic re-lighting of the venue's chandeliers.

-- By Robert Simonson and David Lefkowitz

 
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