After four years of fighting, the Union was restored through the force of arms. The problems of reconstructing the Union were just as difficult as fighting the war had been. Because most of the war was fought in the South, the region was devastated physically and economically.
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It is named Times Square for The New York Times. The New York Times was enticed to the area, called Longacre square by the opening of the subway in 1904. As one of the concessions, The NYT requested the name change to match Herald Square, named for The New York Herald and Greeley Square, named for Horace Greeley, publisher of the New York Tribune.