The TKTS Ticket Booth in Times Square's Duffy Square--a New York theatre institution that has offered theatregoers same-day discount tickets for 32 years--will temporarily move into the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel on May 1st as the new Duffy Square booth undergoes construction.
The Marriot Marquis is located one block south of Duffy Square's TKTS. Construction is soon to begin on the new, improved Duffy Square booth, while its famous signs will be taken down starting this weekend (during which business there will be continued as usual). Signs will guide ticketbuyers to the temporary booth. The new Duffy Square booth is expected to be operational by early winter.According to a letter sent out by the Theatre Development Fund (which created the famed discount booth), TKTS "will move into a temporary home in the kiosk mid-block on the ground level of the Marriott Marquis...The proximity of the temporary site to the permanent site means that with adequate signage we should be able to redirect customers easily. There is a great deal of space for the lines and we will be able to increase windows to move them quickly."Videos