Grand Central Terminal

Cast In Concrete #6: Scott Stenten And The Sound Of Two Hands Tapping (On A Guitar)

Cast In Concrete tracks Vijith Assar as he records New York City's street musicians. If you'll be busking nearby soon and would like to appear in a future installment, please let him know. Who: Scott Stenten Where: Grand Central Terminal, Graybar Passage When: November 10th, 2011, around 9 p.m. I ... More >>

How to Handle Penn Station Without Popping a Xanax

There's an advertisement on the subways that you might have seen. It describes a project in the works - the largest public works extravaganza in the country - known as East Side Access: a portal from Grand Central Terminal that will outsource time and trains from Penn Station. As the sign says, "Com ... More >>

LIRR: Smooth Operator or Rife With Problems?

The Long Island Rail Road isn't just fraught with fraud: Looks like the MTA's plan to hook up the LIRR to Grand Central Terminal might be delayed a third time, the New York Post reports. What this means? The long-awaited, $7 billion connection wouldn't be complete until 2019, four years after the ... More >>

City Elaborates on Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Midtown Knock 'Em Down Plan

Yesterday, the Voice wrote on reports that Mayor Mike wants to speed up rezoning schemes near Grand Central Terminal, so that out-of-date, short buildings can be replaced with modern towers. The Mayor's idea would run from East 39th Street to East 59th Street, between Third and Fifth Avenues -- and ... More >>

Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Old Midtown Buildings: Knock 'Em Down!

Just before his term wraps up, Mayor Mike might try to jump start zoning changes in Midtown: He wants developers to replace obsolete buildings near Grand Central Terminal with super-modern skyscrapers. The Daily News notes that Bloomberg's push would run from East 39th Street to East 59th Street, b ... More >>

Poetry in Motion: Verse Has Returned to New York's Subways

If reading books or papers on the train doesn't quite satisfy your lit fix, Runnin' Scared has some wonderful news! Shortly after launching a new arts in transit app, the MTA today announced the restoration of Poetry in Motion, which places poems alongside art in the transportation system. Poetry ... More >>

10 Iconic Foods of New York City, and Where To Find Them

​Ultra-creamy New York cheesecake may be the world's richest dessert. Hotbed of culinary fusion, NYC is not only a repository of cuisines from around the globe, but the place where many important dishes originated, if not by pure invention, then as uniquely compelling adaptations of things t ... More >>

Make Flex Donuts Chef Zac Young's Bacon Peanut Caramel Corn

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and while most people will be buying a heart-shaped box of chocolates for their loved ones, why not say "I love you" with a more awesome food: bacon. Specifically, Flex Mussels pastry chef (and Top Chef: Just Desserts cheftestant) Zac Young's bacon peanut c ... More >>

Grand Central Apple Store Opens, Is Gigantic

​Thousands of people crammed into the Apple store in Grand Central for its opening today, and we decided to pop in and check it out. For a 23,000 square-foot flagship store, the new Apple store occupying the east balcony of Grand Central Terminal is pretty invisible. In fact, the most striking ... More >>

Flex Doughnuts Pops Up in Grand Central Station Again

Lauren ShockeyDoughnuts galore from Flex Doughnuts​Flex Doughnuts, the sweet counterpart to Flex Mussels from pastry chef Zac Young, has returned once again to Grand Central Station. Like its pop-up last year, Flex Doughnuts will be located in the Zócalo outpost in the food court on the dinin ... More >>

Holly Van Voast, Frequently Topless Lady, Gets Topless in Court

Van Voast, via @lensjockey​News from the naked beat: Holly Van Voast may be one of New York's most publicly nude personas, having stripped in Times Square, the Staten Island Ferry, Grand Central Terminal, and, most likely, in her own home, in the name of nudity activism. (You may have seen her ... More >>

NYPD Passing out "Gear Guards," Marking Phones with Invisible Ink for Straphangers

Is your gear protected? Your phone marked with invisible ink? In response to increased crime on trains, NYPD officers have been passing out "gear guards" at various subway stations this week to make sure passengers' backpacks and purses are safe from pick pocketing thieves.

Chiles & Chocolate Follows Beer Table and Toby's Public House From the Slope to Manhattan

nsnn.com​While Brooklyn and Manhattan's dining exchange program has generally followed the pattern of the latter's restaurateurs colonizing Williamsburg, Park Slope is leading the reverse charge into Manhattan.

Phone Hacking: A Guide to Journalistic Jackassery

​Each week, Death by Science sends out an all-points bulletin for the latest science and technology news, tracks it down and beats a confession out of it. This week, we dive into the seedy world of phone hacking. Beware, it is a process so treacherous, so disgusting and so complex that you may ... More >>

Doomsday Just 15 Days Away This May 21, Subway Ad Warns

​Just a reminder: Doomsday is coming on May 21, a scant 15 days away. So start collecting bottled water and flare guns. We learned this from a woman passing out fliers near the shuttle stop in Grand Central Station. We also learned this from an advertisement in the East 96th Street subway sta ... More >>

The MTA Can Text...Sort of

​If you're a Metro-North commuter, the MTA will now text you train schedules and other important information as to the status of your ride. Well, not the MTA, exactly: A technology company named CooCoo is providing the service updates, which are already available for Long Island Rail Road cust ... More >>

Kardashians Identify "Place They Will Never Go" on NYC Subway Map

​Kim and Kourtney Kardashian experienced their very first ever subway adventure, and boy howdy, was it fun! Kim announces, "We went to Grand Central Station and took the subway for the first time ever! That's definitely something I had to check off of my NYC to do list!!!" Kim seems to have he ... More >>

Don McNeill, Documenter of the Hippie Explosion, 1945-1968

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 15, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 44 A Death in the Family by Leticia Kent We have had a death in the family. Don McNeill accidentally drowned last Saturday night near his rented summer cottage in Monroe, New York. He was 23 years old. T ... More >>

"Bloomberg's Galpal" Diana Taylor Isn't Running for Senate, but We Might Be Able to Get Campbell Brown's Husband or Kara DioGuardi's Dad

​Yesterday Diana Taylor, a former state regulator better known in the local press for her relationship with our billionaire mayor, joined the list of local political celebrities being floated for a shot at Kirsten Gillibrand's seat. Today, she dropped off the list. Taylor said in a statement t ... More >>

MTA Wants High-Speed Wireless Internet on Metro-North and LIRR Trains

​According to the Post, the Metropolitan Transit Authority is asking for bids from service providers to make high-speed wireless internet available to riders on Metro-North and LIRR commuter trains serving Westchester, Connecticut and Long Island. The final plan may or may not be free to non- ... More >>

Bob Blank's Gold Standard

The NYC producer ruled even those dance floors he never ventured onto himself

The City's Best (And Not So Best) Progressive Theater

En garde, avant-garde!

Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free

​Model trains travel from New York to the North Pole at Grand Central Station. Sadly, the bizarre holiday laser light show on the reverse zodiac roof of the main hall doesn't start until Monday. The holiday market is already going on.

Lucrative toilet blogger opportunity opens up

​OK, it's an obvious bid for free media, but you have to balance that with the needs of excretion fans. Charmin is holding auditions on Nov. 5 for "five super-fun, enthusiastic people" who "really, really enjoy going to the bathroom" to serve as Times Square Toilet Ambassadors from Thanksgivi ... More >>

Fall Guide: Our Retro Dining Picks

10 places that have persisted—somewhat miraculously—among the ceviches, tiny Neapolitan pizzas, and banh mis.

Trump's Ravitch Attack: The Back Story

Anyone wondering about the real source of Donald Trump's venom for newly-minted lieutenant governor Richard Ravitch might want to take a peek in the city's back pages. Trump's blast at Ravitch made state-wide news Monday when he gave New York Post political editor Fred Dicker a copy of his two- ... More >>

Helping the Whitney Museum Expand the 2008 Biennial

Art production fund, to the Armory!

Social Engineering

All aboard at Grand Central with headless models and StoryCorps

The Foil Baron

Ballroom or bathroom? Rudolf Stingel's Whitney retrospective reveals an art of bulimic extremes

Herring Today, Gone in a Few Weeks

Public Space Is the Place

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble's brotherly love invades a square or circle near you

Transit Showdown

Susan Sontag Hair Extensions, Anyone?

'Bust' and local artists rescue the ailing holiday craft fair

In Praise of Personal Journalism

Throwing off the shackles of the conventional press

DV Suicide-Bombing Drama Lacks Narrative Urgency

Escape From Zoo York

The fast and the furriest: Animating season opens with the journey of a manic menagerie

Listings

Close-Up On: Sunnyside

Suspended Animation

Serfs Up

Peasant Blouses, Vreeland, and Mickey Mouse

Dream Weavers

The Fall 2002 Fashion Shows

20 Love

New York's Most Romantic Restaurants

Three and Out

Women's Football Gets Crowded

The Taste of Fear

Subway Surfers Risk Their Lives Atop the City’s Trains. Only Mad Fools Take the Dare. Only the Lucky Survive.

Mind Body Spirit: Time for Tea

Our Theatrical Century

After 100 Years of Experiment, What'll the Theater Do for an Encore?

History Repeating

History Repeating

All Aboard!

Stephan Koplowitz Does Windows

And the Bead Goes On

Of Finish Fetish and Liza Lou's American Glamorama