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Times Square Alliance

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    December 28, 2011

    Happy Good Riddance Day: Time to Dredge Up Your Worst Memory of the Year and Destroy It

    You may not be aware, but today is an important day on our nation's calendar. It is, yes, several days after Christmas, and several days until the New Year (and the eve proceeding that year). And it is a Wednesday, a/k/a, "Hump Day." But more important than all of that is, it is Good Riddance Day, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    Times Square Meeting Bowls Offer New Opportunity to Sit In a Giant Basket

    via Times Square Alliance​The subways, buses, cramped apartments, and crowded bars of New York City are being joined by a new way to sit in a small space with other people. Please welcome the Meeting Bowls (or "tourist cages," as Animal NY calls them), a new public art installation in Times Sq ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    Times Square to Become One Big Restaurant with Menus, Table Service

    mskogly/flickrExcuse me, garçon!​OK, this whole curbside dining thing might just be getting out of hand. According to the Daily News, the Times Square Alliance has invited restaurants and food vendors to bid for the chance to deliver food to the 100 tables installed in the now car-free plaza. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2011

    Times Square Is Full of Sheep

    via Times Square Alliance​There are sheep all over the northern end of the Broadway pedestrian plaza between West 45th and West 46th Streets in Times Square. They are made of paper, thankfully, and "protected by a foot-tall fence" as part of a public art installation called "Counting Sheep." T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2010

    Ousted from Times Square, Local Hero Returns to Jersey Shore to Execute "Snooki-in-a-Ball"

    ​Rest easy, friends, because our dear, displaced Snooki has found a home for New Years Eve! After being ousted from the Times Square ceremony in which she'd been "supposed to" drop in the ball "like a friggin' hampster," her homeland has taken her in again. Via the New York Times Arts Beat, sh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Times Square Peep-O-Rama Sign Just Totally Emasculated Now

    via New York Times​Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a gritty and wild land in the middle of Manhattan. Sex could be bought, or at least watched for a fee. Lawlessness and perversions abounded! And then, a man named Rudy Giuliani rode in on his metaphorical white horse and the Disney ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    No Longer Naked Cowboy Announces 2012 Bid for President

    ​"America, you can count on me to be conservative through and through!" announced an unusually clothed Robert Burck in Times Square today. Burck, in case somehow you don't know, is better known as the Times Square tourist fixture "The Naked Cowboy" -- a gig for which he dons only a cowboy hat, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    Broadway: Now Offering Free Valet Bike Parking With Your Ticket to Anything But Cats

    ​Starting tomorrow, you'll be able to ride your bike to the Broadway show of your choosing (not Cats, 'cause it's not running), drop it off with a friendly valet, and then pick it up and ride on home after the fat lady sings -- or at your leisure. Now, while the intersection of bike-riding and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Molly Dilworth, Public Artist, Paints a River in Times Square

    "Cool Water, Hot Island" rendering by Molly Dilworth via Treehugger.com​If you live in New York, you probably only pass through Times Square to transfer subway lines -- or to rush into your place of work, head down, all business. But you should really take a moment to check out Molly Dilworth' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    Battle of the Yogis: Times Square and Central Park Duke It Out for Most Major Yoga Event

    ​Monday and Tuesday, the first official days of summer, inspired two major public (free!) yoga events in the city: The Solstice in Times Square and Yoga at the Great Lawn. One boasted its cred as one of the longest-running yoga-thons ever; the other prided itself on being the largest. But whic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Jamie Oliver Praises Mickey D's; Lady Gaga on the Baby Food Diet

    ​The Times Square Alliance is seeking proposals from local businesses to operate concession stands in the pedestrian plazas located on Broadway between 42d and 47th Streets. [NY Times] The National Milk Producers Federation is lobbying the FDA to require that plant-based beverages, like soy m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2010

    At Least One Couple Gets Engaged in Public on Valentine's Day

    JoseSPlano​The story of the botched Rangers game marriage proposal on Valentine's Day is sad, so thank god NYC the Blog caught a successful V-Day public proposal at Times Square. A photographer was trying to get a shot of the Ice Heart set out by the Times Square Alliance on Sunday when he no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    Free WiFi in Times Square for One Year

    ​Yahoo, in cooperation with the Times Square Alliance, today commences free WiFi in Times Square, which will be in place for a year. We haven't sampled it yet, and remember having trouble grabbing a signal when CBS tried it in a big block of midtown in 2007, but Bryant Park's been successfully ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 26, 2008

    Write Your Wish on Times Square Confetti, Thanks to Weird New Candy

    ​Yahoo, in cooperation with the Times Square Alliance, today commences free WiFi in Times Square, which will be in place for a year. We haven't sampled it yet, and remember having trouble grabbing a signal when CBS tried it in a big block of midtown in 2007, but Bryant Park's been successfully ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2008

    TKTS Too Expensive But Not By Much, Says Alliance

    ​Yahoo, in cooperation with the Times Square Alliance, today commences free WiFi in Times Square, which will be in place for a year. We haven't sampled it yet, and remember having trouble grabbing a signal when CBS tried it in a big block of midtown in 2007, but Bryant Park's been successfully ... More >>

  • Art

    January 4, 2005

    Art

    ​Yahoo, in cooperation with the Times Square Alliance, today commences free WiFi in Times Square, which will be in place for a year. We haven't sampled it yet, and remember having trouble grabbing a signal when CBS tried it in a big block of midtown in 2007, but Bryant Park's been successfully ... More >>

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