Understand
This district stretches from 34th St, through the heavily commercial West 30s up to 59th St beyond which is Central Park, and lies west of 6th Ave. The West Side is home not only to the famed "Great White Way" Broadway, but to the emerging business district centered on the now thoroughly Disneyfied Times Square. The Theater District centers on the outlandishly commercial "New" 42nd Street and heads up Broadway and 7th Avenues, melding to the west with the resurgent neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen and its commercial strip on 9th Avenue, and to the north with the newly-built Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle. The area becomes increasingly residential as you go north or west, and more commercial to the east and south. Many of Manhattan's largest hotels including the Hilton and the Sheraton are located on 6th or 7th Avenue in this area.
Times Square Information Center
Multilingual tourist counselors, free maps and brochures, tickets for Broadway shows and sightseeing tours, and free internet access on their Yahoo computers.