NEW YORK (AP) – Being situated at the “Crossroads of the World” means a high profile and vulnerability to the unexpected – as the military recruiting station in Times Square demonstrated again on Sunday.

The target of anti-war protests in the past and damaged by a still-unsolved bombing incident earlier this year, the small building was in the spotlight again when a taxi hit several bystanders on the sidewalk in front of it, police said. Six people were taken to a hospital with apparently minor injuries, they said.

Police said two cabs collided around 10 a.m., sending one taxi onto the sidewalk. No other details were immediately available.

The recruiting station, which serves all the armed forces, stands on a traffic island in the heart of Times Square, an intersection usually thronged with tourists and other pedestrians. It was not known whether the station, which wasn’t damaged, was open at the time.

It has occupied that site for more than half a century and is the busiest of the nation’s 1,600 military recruiting posts, setting records with about 10,000 applicants per year.

The center was remodeled in 1999 to conform more closely with Times Square’s more glitzy appearance, adding a new glass facade and an American flag formed from neon tubing.

In October 2005, the station was targeted by an anti-Iraq war group calling itself the Granny Peace Brigade. Eighteen activists, mostly women in their 80s and 90s, were arrested on disorderly conduct charges but later acquitted.

A bomb exploded next to the building on March 6, damaging its facade, shattering windows and prompting a massive police response.

No injuries resulted from the 3:45 a.m. blast, and police were unable to trace an abandoned bicycle they believed the bomber might have ridden.

Police theorized that the incident might be related to bomb explosions at the Mexican consulate in October 2007 and the British consulate in May 2005.