Tag Archives: Times Square

Federal investigators say that Faisal Shahzad, arrested at JFK yesterday for the attempted car bombing of Times Square, has implicated himself and says that he was acting alone. The law enforcement official who said Mr. Shahzad had implicated himself also revealed more details of the transaction. He said authorities had found Mr. Shahzad through the email address he had given …

Federal investigators have arrested a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan in connection with Saturday’s failed car bombing in Times Square. The suspect was arrested at JFK while apparently attempting to flee the country. The man, Faisal Shahzad, was believed to have recently bought the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder that was found loaded with gasoline, propane, fireworks and fertilizer in the heart …

Although they insist that there is still no evidence to support the Taliban’s claim of responsibility for Saturday’s car bomb attempt in Times Square, federal investigators now say they have clues that the incident may not have been domestic in origin. The failed car bombing in Times Square increasingly appears to have been coordinated by more than one person in …

The NYPD has released surveillance video of a “balding white man in his 40’s” leaving the vicinity of the SUV left in Times Square on Saturday night. In a chilling surveillance video released late last night, the man is seen at the end of Shubert Alley peeling off a sweatshirt he’d been wearing over a short-sleeved red shirt, furtively glancing …

A Pakistani sect of the Taliban is claiming to be behind yesterday’s failed car bomb attack in Times Square. Homeland Security officials and the NYPD say no evidence has yet been uncovered to verify the Taliban’s involvement. According to the Associated Press, a one minute video allegedly released by the group says the attack is revenge for the death of …

Times Square was evacuated and several Broadway shows were canceled last night after police found an unexploded bomb inside of a burning car. “It appears to be a car bomb left in a Pathfinder between Seventh and Eighth” Avenues on 45th Street, said Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman. The device, he said, contained “explosive elements” …

Here’s an early shot of the DADT protest getting underway in Times Square, via JMG reader Scott. That’s rainbow flag creator Gilbert Baker on the right, getting ready to unfurl one of his banners. Just to Baker’s left is Oscar-nominated art director Charley Beal.

Via Queer Rising: In an act of civil disobedience, Lt. Dan Choi and Capt. Jim Pietrangelo and Robin McGehee have been arrested at the White House gates on Thursday while protesting the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. We are in solidarity with Choi, Pietrangelo, Robin McGehee and all other protesters nationwide. Join us as we protest the Army Recruitment …

Casting has been announced for Broadway Backwards 5, the fantastic annual Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS show in which performers sing songs written for the opposite sex. Appearing this year: Nick Adams, Martine Allard, Gary Beach, Dan Butler, Tituss Burgess, Mario Cantone, Len Cariou, Raúl Esparza, Harvey Evans, Tony Goldwyn, Ann Haarda, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Aaron Lazar, Michele Lee, …

The Drenched pool party returns to Times Square’s Grace Hotel tomorrow. The last one was mobbed and I had a blast (although I was one of the few non-swimmers, preferring to hover safely in the two bars that overlook the pool.) The best part was when the upstairs coat check got full and folks had to change into their bathing …

The White House is angry at the Weatherproof clothing company for installing a Times Square billboard that implies the president is endorsing one of their jackets. Outerwear company Weatherproof used a recent news photo of the president in front of the Great Wall in Badaling, China, for the advertisement, with the tagline “A Leader In Style.” The White House said …

For the last decade New Yorkers have bemoaned the Disneyfication of Times Square with its mall chain restaurants, its themed nightclubs, and its now well-scrubbed and well-fed middle American patrons. And with the below news, the Disneyfication of Times Square has become complete and literal. Disney is going theme park with its new Times Square retail store. Perhaps trying to …

But only the kind of XXX you get in bowling, as the company that owns Union Square’s Bowlmor Lanes plans a posh $20M venue in the former New York Times Building. Bowlmor is owned by Strike Holdings, and at its downtown headquarters, Thomas Shannon, the chief executive, spoke about the old bowling, and the new bowling that might save New …

And a Merry Toshiba!

Yesterday was Times Square’s annual Good Riddance Day, in which the public was invited to “say goodbye to all those bad memories of 2009.” Posted “good riddance” messages and items were ceremoniously shredded and hauled away. On the positive tip, the Times Square Alliance is also hosting a New Year’s Eve Wishing Wall, where your posted dreams and desires for …

I don’t know what I was thinking.

The numbers for the new year arrived in Times Square yesterday via pedicab in preparation for the ball drop two weeks from today. You can pose for photos with One and Oh in front of 1540 Broadway for the next week. (Via – Gothamist)

Upset about a pending tax on cosmetic surgery, plastic surgeons and office temps saving up for a boob job protested in Times Square this weekend. Don’t tax our ta tas! That was the word Sunday from New York women outraged over a Washington proposal to add a 5% tax on all elective cosmetic surgery – everything from boob jobs to …

Within a couple of hours of today’s vote in the NY Senate, rainbow flag creator Gilbert Baker had made a 50-foot yellow “NY CRIME SCENE” banner and hundreds of pissed off New Yorkers had joined him in Times Square to express their anger to the national networks and thousands of tourists. NOTE: I ran into a couple of despised politicos …