'Kissing Booths' Are Coming to Times Square

Times Square, home to famed sensual sights like the Naked Cowboy and, uh, Gropey Cookie Monster, is about to get even racier. This Valentine’s Day, giant, golden hearts will pop up at the busy crossroads, complete with caves that offer visitors the opportunity to suck face.

The “Heart of Hearts” installation is the product of local designers at Collective–LOK, who won a Times Square Arts competition and plan for nine hearts reaching 10 feet into the air. “Times Square is the heart of New York City—a blur of bright lights and billboards, noise, steam, passion and possibilities,” they write. “It is spectacle made manifest, day and night. For Valentine’s Day we offer the Heart of Hearts, a space for both intimacy and performance within this spectacular atmosphere.”