Tag Archives: midtown

Built in 1928 on the site of Anderson Cooper’s great-grandfather’s mansion.

Just the entrance, actually, since the store itself is underground. I’m not an Apple customer, but I walked in just to see the store and found about 200 people snaked around around store’s aisles in a line to buy the iPhone 4. Still. Months after it came out. Craziness.

David Mamet’s Race actually closed a couple of weeks ago. Next up at the 82 year-old Barrymore is Elling, starring Brendan Fraser and Jennifer Coolidge, which opens in November. The Ethel Barrymore is the last surviving Schubert theater specifically built for a performer of the day.

Today we helped my loyal companion Aaron move into his new digs in Hell’s Kitchen. The views in all directions are killer.

The MTA is dragging their feet on repairing the rotting and crumbling edges of midtown’s subway platforms, even though their own report nine months ago showed that the wooden edges in some stations are falling apart. The crumbling conditions can be found on platforms for the downtown F at 34th Street and the uptown B and D at 47-50 Streets/Rockefeller …

The food at the street meat truck in midtown at 53rd and Sixth is so famously good that you’ll find a block-long line of hipsters and tourists there at any hour. It’s so great, in fact, that it’s worth stabbing somebody to death when they cut in line. The “Gyro Line Cut” trial is finally underway. I’m just surprised this …

The furry video below this post reminded me to let you know about Drenched, this Friday’s pool party at the super-fancy Grace Hotel near Times Square. Haven’t been yet, but the photos make it look like you can get drinks from the pool! Promoter Joe Fiore also does the fantastic Furball parties, so expect a hirsute heaven.

The annual United Nations General Assembly begins today and NYC is under a tight security lockdown. Midtown subway stations are swarming with cops and ominous men in dark suits. Many East Side streets are closed. Heightening tensions is this: Investigators overheard conversations that indicated an attack might be carried out on New York’s subways in a style similar to the …

The fourth incarnation of Madison Square Garden sits atop Penn Station in midtown, about a mile and a half from the actual Madison Square, where the first Garden was built in 1879. The current Garden was built in 1968 at the cost of the grand above-ground Beaux Arts portion of Penn Station (which you know if you are watching Mad …

One of many replicas of Robert Indiana’s LOVE sculpture is located on Sixth Avenue in midtown NYC. Is this the original? Wikipedia is unclear.

Without fanfare or press conferences, two lanes of Broadway from 42nd Street south to Herald Square have been permanently closed for the construction of a 7 block-long public esplanade to be outfitted with planters, seating, and a bike lane. In a surprising reshaping of the urban landscape, the city is creating a public esplanade along a portion of one of …

Gotham nightclub FUBAR was destroyed in a construction disaster on Manhattan’s East Side this afternoon, just about a mile from my apartment. A 15-story construction crane collapsed, destroying an entire five-story apartment building and FUBAR. At least three people were killed. Something is seriously wrong with construction oversight in this town, this shit is happening every week. More photos.