Celebrating 40th of TKTS : It’s curtain call for one of Brooklyn Heights’ leading men
The iconic TKTS booth in Times Square has just turned 40 β and one of Brooklyn Heights’ own chairs the group that created the concept and has kept it rolling in good times and bad.
βIt’s extraordinary it has been alive so long,β said Earl Weiner, the chairman of the Theatre Development Fund, a group created in 1968 to aid then-struggling Broadway.
βIt has sold 58.5 million tickets,β he said of TKTS, which also proudly operates an outlet at Downtown Brooklyn’s MetroTech. βWe’ve brought $1.9 billion to the industry.β
Not-for-profit TDF operates the booth in Duffy Square, which sells discounted same-day tickets for Broadway and Off Broadway shows.