Tag Archives: Times Square

Bright Lights, Big City

During tonight’s marriage protest in Times Square, I decided to take my disgust to the new mega-Jumbotron above American Eagle at Broadway & 45th, where a purchase allows you “15 seconds of fame” via their in-store camera. The store’s manager disallowed my uber-angry signage, so with an “I Heart(Break) NY” sticker on my hoodie, I returned with Milk art director …

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Evening View – 42nd Street

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Broadway On Broadway 2009

Today’s free annual Broadway On Broadway concert in Times Square concluded with the usual snowstorm of confetti and streamers as the casts of every show lead the audience in New York, New York. Along the way we got performances from the casts of 21 musicals, including a few previews of shows yet to open such as Fela!, Memphis, and the …

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“TeddyCare For All”

As Sen. Ted Kennedy was being memorialized in Massachusetts yesterday, about 1000 New Yorkers rallied in his name in Times Square for health care reform. Will Kennedy’s death help move the battle forward? (Via – Gothamist)

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Morning View – 1-2-3 Platform

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The Naked Mayor

Yesterday I mentioned that NYC’s Naked Cowboy is running for mayor. His plans for the city include a Times Square wedding chapel so that when gay marriage is legal, the city will rival Las Vegas in wedding business. Here’s his pitch.

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Naked Cowboy Running For NYC Mayor

NYC’s most famous busker, the Naked Cowboy, is running for mayor. “The Naked Cowboy” plans to run against Mayor Bloomberg on a platform of “bringing transparency to a whole new level.” A fixture in Times Square for a decade, Robert Burck has made a profitable business from strumming a guitar dressed only in cowboy boots and hat and tight-fitting white …

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Remembering June 1969

Yesterday the cast of Hair, the chorus boys from West Side Story, and the vogueing houses slated to perform at tomorrow’s Love Ball all gathered on the stairs of the new TKTS booth in Times Square to remember the night 40 years ago that sparked the Stonewall Rebellion. In the red headband behind the sailor is openly gay Hair star …

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Car-Free Times Square: Mixed Reviews

We’re six days into Mayor Bloomberg’s six-month experiment and so far opinions are quite mixed. Tourists love it and rush hour traffic on nearby streets is actually moving faster. Shop owners and delivery men are much less happy, saying that deliveries must now be hand-trucked for blocks through crowded sidewalks. Postal workers, UPS, and FedEx are all giving the project …

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Broadway Goes Car-Free

Yesterday NYC began its experiment to make Times Square safer and more pedestrian-friendly, closing an eight block stretch of Broadway to vehicles. According to a city study, midtown traffic will actually be as much as 20% faster, since drivers no longer have to deal with the way Broadway slices across the city’s grid. By all reports, things are working well. …

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DJ Taxi

Times Square, Sunday, 8:30pm Outside a tavern….. Tourist 1: Do you want to go in? The music sounds OK.Tourist 2: Ugh. World music. You didn’t get enough of that in the cab?

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Evening View – Times Square

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One Less Virgin In Times Square

The busiest record store in the country, Virgin Times Square, will be closing in April, much earlier than previously announced. The coming closure of the Union Square location was announced last year, but no final date of business is known. Music retailing, what little is left, has effectively been returned to the place from which it first sprang over 40 …

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In Which I Ponder My Lifetime To-Do List

Tonight’s weather promises to be very ugly for the expected 1 million revelers in Times Square. Winds are expected to gust from 40-50mph, bringing the wind chill to far, far below zero. Nightmare. I had pondered actually going to Times Square tonight, until a dozen or so of my friends collectively threatened to have me committed. Times Square on New …

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17-Story Billboard For Times Square

One of the world’s largest and brightest LED billboards lit up in Times Square last night. Via New York Times: The new Walgreens sign going live in Times Square Thursday is not the largest LED-based sign in the world, but its developers believe that it is the most complex, both in terms of its construction and operation. Rising 340 feet …

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On Sale In Times Square

Jen Chung over at Gothamist found these on sale in Times Square. Nothing for Joe Biden?

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TKTS Giveaway

Midtowners: If you truck over to the new TKTS booth in Times Square (like, right now) Target is paying for the first 1000 Broadway tickets sold. The giveaway starts at 3PM. Broadway legend Bernadette Peters just announced from the podium at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening the revitalized Duffy Square and new TKTS Booth, that the first 1,000 …

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Morning View – New TKTS Booth

Risking the long arm of the Showtune Police, I snuck around the barrier and grabbed this shot of the front side of the new TKTS booth in Times Square, which is due to open this month. The ticket windows are under the bleachers. The classic TKTS booth is (almost) back with a bold new look: the discounted theater-ticket sales window …

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Bubble Battle ’08

Not to be outdone by the Union Square Pillow Fight, yesterday thousands of people crowded Times Square for the Bubble Battle. More pics and videos over at Gothamist and on Flickr. The pillow fight seems more fun, but at least there’s no cleanup from millions of bubbles.

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And Then There Were None

Six months after the announcement that the Virgin Megastore in Union Square will be closing in early 2009, today comes the news of the same fate for the Times Square store, leaving Manhattan with zero music retail chain outlets. Unless you count joints like Best Buy or Starbucks, which I totally don’t. Says the company that bought Virgin Megastores North …

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