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Rockefeller Center

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Covenant Wine Defies the Stigma of its Kosher Label

    It has a stigma. Kosher wine that is. Super sweet, sticky, viscous, and usually poured from a square-ish Manishewitz bottle. Or wan and watery bottles picked up en route to a religious home or holiday dinner. But it doesn't have to be this way. Does it?A recent tasting (that sounds so formal, in rea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2012

    Mad Men Mania: Fans Now 'Draping' in New York City

    It has a stigma. Kosher wine that is. Super sweet, sticky, viscous, and usually poured from a square-ish Manishewitz bottle. Or wan and watery bottles picked up en route to a religious home or holiday dinner. But it doesn't have to be this way. Does it?A recent tasting (that sounds so formal, in rea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    This Week in the Voice: Victoria Jackson, Tea Party Princess

    This week in the Voice, out today: Gus Garcia-Roberts profiles Victoria Jackson, chronicling how the former Saturday Night Live star became a Tea Party darling: "Her comedy career, which took her from Johnny Carson's stage in Los Angeles to 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, long ago squeaked it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2012

    American Kobe Burger at Brasserie Ruhlmann

    Sink your teeth into this baby -- if you can afford it. Sometimes you have to have a hamburger. The fries don't even have to be that great. In NYC, the burger is probably the most ubiquitous meal available -- ahead of pizza, falafel, salad-bar salads, sushi, and a dozen others you can find anywher ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 23, 2011

    Ice Skating For the Holidays

    Sink your teeth into this baby -- if you can afford it. Sometimes you have to have a hamburger. The fries don't even have to be that great. In NYC, the burger is probably the most ubiquitous meal available -- ahead of pizza, falafel, salad-bar salads, sushi, and a dozen others you can find anywher ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2011

    Either They Put the Rockefeller Center Tree Up Really Fast, Or This is a Time Lapse Video

    In honor of Christmas being merely 41 days away, we present to you the above video of the instillation of Rockefeller Center's Norway Spruce. Some fun facts about the tree: It's 74 feet tall, 75 years old, has both a Twitter and Tumblr account, and it's a fucking tree.

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Has Arrived

    ​Mifflinville, Pennsylvania's most famous resident has been chopped down and is now in place, "hoisted," as it were (is that what we're calling it these days?) and waiting to bring you Christmas joy and excessively festive tidings at Manhattan's own world holiday (Rockefeller) Center. He/she i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Town Psyched About Celebrity Tree

    Another tree, another 15 minutes. ​A most exciting thing has happened in Miffinville, Pennsylvania, pop: 2,500. The Daily News has found, because some citizen or elected official could not keep his or her big mouth shut, that a 75-foot-tall spruce tree "now under 24-hour police protection" is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2011

    Another Midtown Tent City Emerges, And This Time It's Full Of Radiohead Fans

    Last May the season finale of Saturday Night Live was prefaced by Lady Gaga fans setting up a mini-campsite in the middle of Rockefeller Center so they could get the chance to see their heroine perform on the show. Not to be outdone by silly fans of pop music, a bunch of Radiohead fans have also sta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    Man Attempting to Jump Off Roof of 30 Rock Has Been Rescued (Updated)

    via @Durrellojello​A man is attempting to jump off the 70th floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the FDNY confirmed. There is currently a fire engine and EMS on the scene. People at NBC have been discussing the situation on Twitter -- including @Durrellojello and Luke Russert. @Durrellojello explain ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Potbelly Sandwich Works Spreading Like Wildfire in NYC

    Sassycrafter/FlickrPrepare for hot and toasty sandwich domination​Potbelly Sandwich Works, the Chicago-based sandwich purveyor that makes straight-from-the-oven sammies, has opened its second New York City location today at 150 East 44th Street (646-289-4202), not even a month after it set up ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    Somebody Is Finally Paying Attention to the Rainbow Room

    WikipediaParty like it's 1934.​Someone is finally cleaning up the mess the Ciprianis made: After being shut for two years, the Rainbow Room is getting a much-needed renovation.

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    Charges Against Lucali's Mark Iacono Dropped; Gordon Ramsay Tweets Photo of Himself "Planking"

    ​A Brooklyn DA dropped all charges against both Lucali pizzaiolo Mark Iacono and alleged assailant Benny Geritano due to lack of cooperation from both witnesses. [NY Post] Jake Klein, who previously apprenticed under Masaharu Morimoto, is taking his Caribbean- and Southeast Asian-style cookin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Lauren Shockey Likes It Hot at Zabb Elee; Sifton Takes Masa Down a Peg

    This week in the Voice, Lauren Shockey orders her food "Thai hot" at the East Village offshoot of Queens restaurant Zabb Elee and is delighted to find a menu that "traverses a maze of sour, tangy, and piquant flavors, each brighter than the next." Sam Sifton shocks the New York restaurant scene by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Dr. Oz Giving Away Free Cab Rides From 4 to 6 Today

    ​Stations have resisted putting anything that they want to do well up against The Oprah Winfrey Show because, well -- Oprah always wins. But since Oprah's last show yesterday, networks are scrambling to hold the attention of one of the largest audiences in the country. Dr. Oz, a friend of Opra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Minamoto Kitchoan's Wonderful Wagashi

    Rebecca Marx​ This week, we've decided to stray far from the all-American cookies, cakes, and ice cream we so love and venture instead to Minamoto Kitchoan, one of the city's foremost purveyors of wagashi, or traditional Japanese pastry.

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    'Elite' NYPD Unit Keeps Firing Guns Accidentally

    ​Members of the Emergency Service Unit of the NYPD -- the "elite," according to the Daily News -- have fired three stray rounds in three months, including a mistaken shot unleashed by a sniper (with a rifle!) during the tree-lighting ceremony in Rockefeller Center. That is, a man charged with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    Barack Obama Holds "Slurpee Summit"; Google Investigated for Antitrust; Rock Center Xmas Tree Lights Up

    ​• President Obama will meet with congressional leaders from both parties today -- a/k/a, the "Slurpee summit," actual Slurpees TBD -- to discuss a number of issues, including the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and tax cuts. Can some ice shavings and food coloring bring peace to this nation ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    That Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Gave Its Life for You, Okay?

    Never forget: This tree, that one year.​About that Rockefeller Center Christmas tree -- this year's is a 74-foot Norway spruce from Mahopac, New York, to be lit up this very evening to the delight of 2.5 million holiday gawkers. The tree in Rock Center is one of those things that New Yorkers t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    WTF? Best of NYC...with Los Angeles Backdrop??

    ​Hey, New Yorkers, we just discovered another reason you should pick up a copy of this week's super-special "Best of NYC" issue of the Village Voice. We have no doubt it's going to be a collector's item. It turns out that our art department, for whatever reason, thought it would make sense to il ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    Bill's Bar & Burger Is Now Open and Serving the Multitudes

    Robert SietsemaBill's burger, up close and personal.​The mothership has finally landed: as of today, Bill's Bar & Burger is officially open for business in Rockefeller Center.

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    Thomas Keller to Open a Second Bouchon Bakery at Rockefeller Center

    Coming soon to Midtown.​Today brings excellent news for fans of Bouchon's monolithic and life-altering Nutter Butter: Thomas Keller will open a second location of the bakery in Rockefeller Center. Flo Fab reports that it will replace Dean & Deluca, and will have 45 outdoor tables and no waiter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Tomorrow Is National Doughnut Day, and There Will Be Freeloading Opportunities in Midtown

    arnold inuyaki/FlickrEven tastier when free.​Tomorrow, untold numbers of our compatriots will observe the festival of fried dough that is National Doughnut Day. In Midtown, that celebration will be commemorated at certain neighborhood Dunkin' Donuts and Krispy Kremes, where Midtown Lunch repor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Faisal Shahzad to Appear in Court Today in New York City

    ​Unsuccessful terrorist Faisal Shahzad, who reportedly had additional targets including Grand Central and Rockefeller Center, and even Connecticut, will appear in federal court in Manhattan today. He has been charged with five counts of felony for allegedly attempting to detonate that car bomb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    What to Talk About at Work Today

    ​In case you were living under a rock (or outside, with a healthy application of spf, we hope) this weekend, we've consolidated a handy list of what the past two days had to offer. Fear the office water cooler no longer! Read on for what's on the lips of all the popular kids:

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    Fast-Food Chains Replace Teens with Robots; Calorie Labeling Forces Some Restaurants to Shrink Portions

    ​Yet another journalist asks why, if Alice Waters has been such a revolutionary in the local, slow food movement, do so some many people hate her. [LA Times] Fast-food chains that once employed teenagers to carry out the most mindless, repetitive of tasks are now turning to robots to do these ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 23, 2010

    STAIR MASTER

    Race to the top of 30 Rock

  • Music

    May 13, 2009

    Summer Guide: Amadou & Mariam's A Global Affair

    Damon Albarn lends this "blind couple from Mali" a dash of Britpop

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    Updike's Uptown Crawl Recreated

    Photo from the Book Bench An early Updike Talk of the Town piece saw the writer quixotically attempt to make his way between the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center without once setting foot on either 5th or 6th Avenue. He called it a "service to readers who are too frail or shy for good- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2009

    $1 Million Rent Kills the Librairie Francaise

    Thanks to TONY for letting us know: the Librairie Francaise is closing. Rockefeller Center has raised the French booksellers' rent from $360,000 a year to -- get this -- $1 million. David Rockefeller accommodated the library in 1935 to lend a touch of class to the new Center, but who goes to Rockefe ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 23, 2008

    Abstract Expressionism: A World Elsewhere

    Thanks to TONY for letting us know: the Librairie Francaise is closing. Rockefeller Center has raised the French booksellers' rent from $360,000 a year to -- get this -- $1 million. David Rockefeller accommodated the library in 1935 to lend a touch of class to the new Center, but who goes to Rockefe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2008

    Daily Flog 8/1/08: Bush aides, Williamsburg hipsters under attack!

    Thanks to TONY for letting us know: the Librairie Francaise is closing. Rockefeller Center has raised the French booksellers' rent from $360,000 a year to -- get this -- $1 million. David Rockefeller accommodated the library in 1935 to lend a touch of class to the new Center, but who goes to Rockefe ... More >>

  • Art

    March 4, 2008

    Helping the Whitney Museum Expand the 2008 Biennial

    Art production fund, to the Armory!

  • Dining

    June 13, 2006

    Frieze and Furze

    Heart-snatching amid much mustard at new Parisian brasserie

  • News

    April 11, 2006

    Grandmothers of Invention

    Older is bitter—when it comes to the war in Iraq. A peek inside the granny-power movement.

  • News

    January 18, 2005

    New Yorkers Hit the Ice to Protest Bush

    Older is bitter—when it comes to the war in Iraq. A peek inside the granny-power movement.

  • News

    January 11, 2005

    Hang a Black Ribbon, Raise a Clenched Fist

    Inauguration Protest: Washington, D.C., and New York City

  • News

    November 25, 2003

    Merry Mayhem

    Inauguration Protest: Washington, D.C., and New York City

  • NYC Life

    August 19, 2003

    Dancing (Naked) in the Dark

    Inauguration Protest: Washington, D.C., and New York City

  • News

    March 25, 2003

    Peace Activists Planning to Disrupt Manhattan

    Inauguration Protest: Washington, D.C., and New York City

  • News

    July 9, 2002

    Into the Misty

    Nam June Paik Lights Up Rockefeller Center

  • Theater

    May 7, 2002

    Theater

    Nam June Paik Lights Up Rockefeller Center

  • NYC Life

    December 11, 2001

    People in Glass Houses

    Holiday Windows in a Sad Season

  • NYC Life

    May 29, 2001

    Art

    Three Months, 11 Exhibits

  • News

    March 13, 2001

    Seizing the Spotlight

    A Stand-Up Comedian Fights the Drug Laws by Working the Media

  • Columns

    October 3, 2000

    NY Mirror

    A Stand-Up Comedian Fights the Drug Laws by Working the Media

  • Art

    June 20, 2000

    Jeffersonian Koons

    A Stand-Up Comedian Fights the Drug Laws by Working the Media

  • News

    May 11, 1999

    Freedom Fighters

    An Unlikely Group of Prisoners' Relatives Battles the Rockefeller Drug Laws

  • News

    January 5, 1999

    Bother From Another Planet

    Aliens Invade New York

  • News

    May 19, 1998

    Camera [in the Can]

    Just in Time for Sweeps Month, TV News Discovers Rest Room Sex

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