Review-Is Times Square Dead or Alive?

Now, we have the new Times Square. In some ways, the Square has never looked better than today, with the diagonal sloping lines of the Reuters Building, the curving Deco zipper, even the giant mock dinosaur in the Toys R Us. Corporations have made America strong; I don't see anything wrong with corporations coming into Times Square. There are, of course, people who miss the old Times Square, its picturesque squalor and violence and misery and exploitation. Those who pointed at the old Times Square as an instance of everything that capitalism can do wrong now point to the new Times Square as an instance of everything that capitalism can do worse. Where once Times Square was hot, it is now cold, where once varied, now uniform, where once alive, now dead.

This is an ever-changing world. Nothing should stop progressing at any certain time. The old Times Square and the current one are both only a point of its progressing. Our dressing style is always changing; our lifestyle is quite different from the past; we are using emails instead of traditional letters, then, why the Times Square should stop changing? The Times Square also has the right to change his “clothes” and “lifestyle” to adapt to the new world. The contemporary Times Square will also be gone one day and become part of its history. The current generation like us may miss our Times Square one day as well, but we should always look forward to a new Times Square rather than cry for the old one. It is not sensible respect the past in sacrificing the future. Times Square has changed much. However, it's always been bright and exciting, and it still packs the same energy.