We Were Strangers Once Too, the winning design for the 2017 Times Square Valentine Heart Design Competition, celebrates New York City’s rich immigrant culture. The sculpture, on display in Father Duffy Square in Times Square, consists of thirty-three metal poles inscribed with the origins of foreign-born NYC residents. As viewers walk around the sculpture, the red and pink poles come together to create an iconic Valentine’s Day heart. “Now more than ever New Yorkers need to stand up and say we are proud to live in a city of immigrants,” says a spokesperson for The Office for Creative Research, which designed the sculpture. “We Were Strangers Once Too is our way to acknowledge and say thank you to the diverse communities of NYC for their many contributions historically, currently and into the future.”