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Five Great Do-It-Yourself Things To Do for New Years, NYC

1. Make a tortilla hat with an indentation on top for salsa, then wear it to a New Years Party. Encourage your best friends to double dip! Really, standing and shivering in Times Square for eight hours without peeing or drinking any alcohol (!) is about the worst way to spend New Years that FiTR c ... More >>

LET THERE BE NEON!

Joe McKendry discusses his new book on times square

What's Happening This Week: Taste of Times Square and ABC Pang

Monday, June 11 Taste of Times Square There's going to be a outdoor pop-up food festival today on 46th Street between Broadway and 9th Avenue. Taste of Times Square features international flavors from restaurants around the city. Click here for a full list of participating restaurants. Tuesday, J ... More >>

Say Goodbye to Ellabess, Snack Box

​Whom did the restaurant gods not smile upon this week? Ellabess, the restaurant inside the Nolitan Hotel, closed after service on Valentine's Day and will reopen this spring with a new concept. [Eater]

Year of the Takeout: Day 25

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In Spite of Letterman's Love Letter to Steak 'N Shake, Actual Food Disappoints

Figuratively speaking, David Letterman blew the chain in Macy's (or maybe we should say Marshall Field's) window. The city has seen a recent influx of fast-food chains from other places, the most recent being Steak 'n Shake, specializing in the elemental combination of hamburgers ("steak," in hype ... More >>

Coffee Cup Motifs in NYC's 59th Street Subway Station

​Don't fall in! In the last 10 years or so, lots of subway stations have been revamped, many with mosaics intended to reflect some associations with what's above the station on the street. Some of these motifs involve food and entertainment -- there are fish in the Delancey Street station, ... More >>

NYPD to Halt Crackdown on Adorable Disney Characters

​Maybe there is justice in the world. The NYPD will no longer pursue and ticket with abandon the various fur-clad creatures bringing joy and frivolity (or, annoyance and hassling) to your Midtown commute. The plentitude of Minnie and Mickey Mice, Elmos, Pusses in Boots, Grinches, Spidermen, an ... More >>

74 Arrests Made at Occupy Wall Street Protests; MLK Memorial Dedication; Demonstrators Killed in Yemen

​A total of 74 people were arrested yesterday as Occupy Wall Street protesters marched from Zuccotti Park to Times Square. 24 people were arrested and charged with criminal trespass at a LaGuardia Pl. Citibank. Witnesses and protesters say some of those arrested were trying to close their acco ... More >>

Penguin Prison Filming Video For "Don't Fuck With My Money" at Occupy Wall Street

Another addition to the growing list of musicians supporting Occupy Wall Street: Chris Glover, the native New Yorker behind the electro-pop project Penguin Prison will be filming a video for the song "Don't Fuck With My Money" tomorrow morning. The synth-wiggle track has been around longer than th ... More >>

Times Square Could Get Occupy Wall Street Billboards

EpicStep, a kickstarter-esque website that crowdsources funds for billboards, has pledged to pay for an Occupy Wall Street billboard if 20,000 people vote for it on their website. People can vote on the design and city where it will be built, and if enough people vote, EpicStep will fund it. If 200, ... More >>

"You Are Here" Signs Are Coming To NYC

Dept of Transportation​Think the city isn't quite friendly enough to tourists yet? The smokelessness and chain stores and malling and that gigantic staircase in Times Square aren't enough for the yahoos and dignitaries who might come here to spend a buck or maybe even a buck and a quarter? W ... More >>

Rat King Kisses Pet Rat Again, Still Gross

The guy who put a rat in his mouth on the subway is back! A Redditor's mom spotted him in Times Square working the freak-show circuit and spoke with him for a little bit. Apparently the "rat king" has been raising Draco, Henry, and Lucky from their birth. He even calls them his "babies." According ... More >>

Chasing Massage Parlors Out of Times Square (Also: A Fateful KISS Ad)

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 14, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 50 New York's 100 kneadiest cases by Joanna Mermey "For only $20 a gentleman can be mentally masturbated at Relaxation Plus, a swank East Side massage parlor," says manager Harry Dushey. "A man goes to ... More >>

Craft Brewers Collaborate on New Beers; U.S. Now Largest Wine-Consuming Nation

​All 400 cases of Australia's most expensive wine, a recently released Shiraz called Laird priced at $700 to $800 a bottle, have been sold. [Wall Street Journal] A number of good cocktailing options have cropped up around Times Square, including the newly revamped Rum House. [NY Times] The u ... More >>

Man Aims to Control Times Square's Screens Without Use of Shenanigans

​Stop us if you've heard this one before: a man attempts to project content from his cell phone onto a giant screen in Times Square. Actually, don't stop us; we reported earlier this month about two men who made a viral video in which they did just that. It turned out to be a clever marketing ... More >>

Times Square Hacker Hoax: A Viral Video For Limitless, But With No Special Effects

​On Monday the internet was momentarily excited by a video in which two men claimed to hack the big screens in Times Square using just an iPhone, a weather balloon, a transmitter, and, as we said at the time, "something called a 'video repeater.'" We were correct to think a "video repeater" do ... More >>

Did a Hacker Take Over the Screens in Times Square With an iPhone? Probably Not!

In the above YouTube video, the user BITcrash44 claims to hack the video screens in Times Square using just an iPhone, a weather balloon, a transmitter, and something called a "video repeater." But like anything amazing that happens on the Internet, a lot of people doubt it's real. It might just be ... More >>

I Dished Bloomberg and Snooki on Lawrence O'Donnell's Show

​During last week's blizzard, I was kooky-crazy enough to take my life in my hands and ride my freakin' bike! And I found it a kind of wet and wild adventure, almost like surfboarding (but with rats instead of sharks around me). But the next day, when I took my bike out, all the snow had set ... More >>

Marcus Samuelsson Remembers His Humble New York Beginnings

​"I love old Times Square; it's the first place I got to when I was 18 and landed in New York. They were filming a music video with Eric B and Rakim, with LL Cool J and some other guys in the background. People stole our bags, but despite that, I remember feeling like I had arrived." -- Marcus ... More >>

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 >>

Winter Guide: Cozy Up to New York's Warming Restaurants

La Roux Are Playing A Surprise Show Today at the Renaissance Hotel in Times Square

"Surprise performance in NYC tomorrow," La Roux's Elly Jackson tweeted yesterday. "Ill be performing a few songs in a secret location." Well, now we know where: 3 p.m., at Times Square's Renaissance Hotel. How this is going to work we have no idea, but anthemic English synth-pop and Times Square m ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

NY Times Glosses Over Their Own Free Money While Slamming Condé Nast, Financial Industry

​Today's New York Times features a fascinating look into big-money New York and the constant reach-arounds given by local government to the corporations that make this city what it is, for better or worse. "Companies We Keep, and Pay For" describes the subsidization process, in the form of gia ... More >>

The 10 Best Things to Eat Around Times Square, NYC

​The $4 fried whiting sandwich from Kim's Aunt Kitchen is a culinary dream come true, and you can't get a better one, even up in Harlem. Three weeks ago, in something of a bad mood, we reviled The 10 Worst Things to Eat Around Times Square, and they were really, really bad--including a mayo-g ... More >>

Times Square Drives Away Everyone Except One Last Homeless Guy

Walt Disney​All of you bitchers-and-moaners harping about how the bad old days of New York are the only days of New York (don't get me wrong, I hate a Starbucks in the East Village as much as you do, but there's something to be said for not getting mugged on the way to Key Food) -- well, anywa ... More >>

TERROR VAN TIMES SQUARE EVACUATE OMG False Alarm

​An abandoned van in Times Square occasioned the evacuation of buildings and streets in the area this morning. The Dodge van was found to contain only clothing, though police might be examining any underwear found therein for explosives. Early reports said the van had been there for several ... More >>

Baby Doll

YEA YEAH

Matt and Kim are so happy together

Naughty by Nature: Kat Long's The Forbidden Apple

Sleaze, please! Vice and virtue duke it out in the big smutty city.

Battle of the Aggressively Green Times Square Billboards!

Coca-Cola proudly announces its 30-odd Times Square signs will be wind-powered for New Year's Eve and presumably thereafter. "We are proud to lead this renewable energy movement on the Great White Way," says a spokesman. Changes to the main billboard alone "will be the equivalent of taking 75 cars ... More >>

They Call Me PRESIDENT Obama!

TKTS Too Expensive But Not By Much, Says Alliance

Life Is Short. Have an Affair, New York.

What adultery site Ashley Madison was thinking when it scandalized Times Square

Tonight at Six: Professor Alvarado

A keyboard, dancing dolls, and the art of staying young

And Don't Forget . . .

Ten champions from previous lists that retain their culinary glory

Books

Hang a Black Ribbon, Raise a Clenched Fist

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

Defeat Bush: The Guide

No one is overqualified to work for John Kerry

Hello Dalai

Thousands Of New Yorkers Await The Dalai Lama's First Visit Here Since 1999

Listings

The Green Team

Does the Voice Whispering in Mark Green’s Ear Have His Own Agenda?

Kin Flick; Kindred Spirits

Rage Against the Caffeine

Reverend Billy Preaches the Anticorporate Gospel to Starbucks

Erotic City

Up In The Old Hotel

What will one elderly Woodstock resident do with the insurance windfall from a Times Square construction accident? Buy a hot plate.

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