Colony Records, Broadway Music Landmark, to Close
Colony Records, the famed sheet music and memorabilia store on Broadway at 49th Street in Manhattan, will close its doors after 64 years, the store has confirmed.Richard Turk, a co-owner of the store,...
View ArticleTourists Use iPads and Other Digital Devices to Navigate New York City
A simple stroll around Times Square is enough to show that iPhones, iPads and other smartphones and tablets have virtually replaced paper maps, guidebooks and even digital cameras among the tourists...
View ArticleSocial Responses: How Would You Fix Times Square?
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View ArticleHow Vulnerable is Times Square to Attack?
R.P. Eddy is considered to be among the most authoritative voices on national security in the country. He previously served as the director of Counterterrorism at the National Security Council during...
View ArticleCapitalism Works for Me: True or False? New Yorkers Say False
Capitalism works for me... true or false? New Yorkers votes on Friday: 109 false, 93 true.A 20 feet x 9 feet sign with a voting podium was in Times Square. The piece was was created by New York artist...
View ArticleStreet Redesign Advice From NYC DOT: Move Swiftly and Cheaply -- and Don't...
How quickly did people flock to a newly pedestrianized Times Square, after New York City revamped it four years ago? "We put out the orange barrels and people just materialized into the street," said...
View ArticleOn Times Square Pedestrian Plaza, It's Back To the Future for de Blasio
Bill de Blasio had made a convincing case for being pro-innovation when it came to New York City's evolving streetscape.But his answer during Tuesday night's debate on pedestrian plazas in Times Square...
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PHOTOS: The Mayor May Not Be Permanent, But the Times Square Pedestrian Plaza...
No five-borough mayoral victory lap would be complete without talking about the transformation of Times Square, so Michael Bloomberg checked off that box by cutting the ribbon on the city's latest...
View ArticleYour Questions Answered: How to Navigate NYC on New Year's Eve
At 3pm today, the NYPD will begin opening the designated viewing areas around Times Square, where a million people are expected to gather for the celebration. Below, we answer questions about how to...
View ArticleThe History of the New Year's Eve Ball Drop
Gathering in Times Square has long been a New Year's Eve tradition, even before the first ball drop.The New York Public Library's Carmen Nigro said it began in 1904, with the opening of the New York...
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Broadway Prepares for 'Super Bowl Boulevard'
The Super Bowl is being played in New Jersey, but New York City hosting the pre-game festivities known as the NFL Experience. And starting this Wednesday, 13 blocks of Broadway will be converted into...
View ArticleNo Need to Tip Sponge Bob: Police
The New York Police Department has been handing out fliers in Times Square telling tourists that photos with costumed characters are free and that tipping is optional.Belkys Almonte was visiting from...
View ArticleHas Art Become Too Popular?
All over the country this month, 50,000 billboards and bus shelters and video screens will display images of famous American works of art. The project is called Art Everywhere, a push by an outdoor...
View ArticleTimes Square Characters May Get Regulated
Spider-Man, Elmo and other costumed characters who roam Times Square could soon have to follow new rules when they pose for photos with tourists.Citing recent incidents of harassment and assault by the...
View ArticleChinese Artists Want Your Help Mopping Times Square
Times Square has no shortage of attractions. But Chinese art collective Polit-Sheer-Form-Office hopes their upcoming art performance will get people to stop... and help mop?The performance is called...
View ArticleTimes Square the Way It REALLY Used to Be
You can call Marielle Anzelone a super-nostalgist.The Times Square she pines for is the one that was there before the Disney Store and the American Airlines Theatre. It was the one that pre-dated even...
View ArticleSocial Security Overhaul; The Trans-Pacific Partnership; A Dollar Slice
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is proposing an overhaul of the Social Security system which would include cutting off benefits for retirees with incomes of $200,000 or more. Time political reporter...
View ArticleTimes Square as a Model for the World
Mike Lydon, urban planner, principal of The Street Plans Collaborative, and co-author of The Smart Growth Manual and of Tactical Urbanism: Short-Term Action for Long-term Change (Island Press, 2015),...
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Young Public School Artists Light up Times Square
The Times Square Advertising Coalition unveiled on Wednesday a five-day public art presentation featuring artworks by public school students from the five boroughs. The works were selected from the...
View ArticlePondering a Times Square Without Billboards
If you had to classify the streets that run through Times Square, 7th Avenue and Broadway, what would you call them? Streets? Avenues? "Principal arterials," perhaps?If you guessed the last answer, you...
View ArticleMayor Says He Won't Tolerate Characters Harassing People in Times Square
Women who go topless while wearing colorful body paint in Times Square may be facing a crackdown, along with the other characters crowding the area. Mayor de Blasio says he wants to "very aggressively"...
View ArticleCity May Replace Times Square Plazas With Traffic
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has a cure for the costumed characters and painted topless ladies in Times Square. In an interview with 1010 WINS on Thursday, he said the city should dig up the...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson; Our Local Delegation on Iran; Panhandling in Times Square
Senator Chuck Schumer made waves when he announced his intention to vote against the Iran deal. The Forward's Nathan Guttman discusses how the rest of our local elected officials plan to vote. Plus:...
View ArticleShould Times Square Replace Its Nude Models with Honking Cars?
The mayor's suggestion to tear up the pedestrian plazas in Times Square to deal with the Times Square "desnudas" - women wearing mainly body paint who seek tips for photos with passers-by - has...
View ArticleCan Harlem Get Police Attention Without Times Square's Topless Women?
A Democratic state assemblyman who represents Upper Manhattan wishes his district was getting the type of regard that Mayor Bill de Blasio and other officials have given to Times Square because women...
View ArticleCan Topless Women and Tourists Co-Exist in Times Square?
A task force convened by Mayor Bill de Blasio met today to discuss the future of Times Square. The group is looking at how to address aggressive tip soliciting by costumed characters and topless women...
View ArticleNYPD Beefs Up City Security After Paris Attacks, But That Doesn't Mean People...
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has said that the New York Police Department was beefing up a visible police presence following the terror attacks in Paris — both out of an abundance of caution and to...
View ArticleShredding Bad Memories for the New Year
The New Year is a time for change, and dozens of people marked the occasion by symbolically shredding their worst memories from 2015. Some brought physical documents and pictures, while others wrote...
View ArticleCity Council Taking Aim at Times Square's Costumed Characters
The Times Square of the near future may no longer be an obstacle course of Elmos, Mickeys and Statues of Liberty.New York City Council member Corey Johnson recently introduced a new bill that would...
View ArticleHow a Brokered Convention Would Work; Cruz vs. NYPD on Monitoring Muslims; A...
Coming up on today's show:We'll talk about the mechanics of brokered conventions with WashingtonPost's Philip Bump. Hear how one candidate can win a primary, but a different candidate can still get...
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Walk Here, Stand There: Coming to Times Square
Tim Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance, follows up on Wednesday's City Council hearing and explains his proposed plan to designate specific areas of the Times Square plaza for different...
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Remembering the Cheap, Tawdry, Downright Immoral Times Square
When you walk shoulder to shoulder through Times Square—where it looks like the sun is out at any hour of the day—it is difficult to imagine that this modern, Disneyfied tourist convergence was once a...
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Every Night, Ads Turn into Art in Times Square
Some New Yorkers might not know this, but every night at 11:57 p.m. on the dot, many of the electronic billboards hanging over Times Square stop flashing ads and turn into an art exhibit for three...
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How Skyscrapers Have Changed Since September 11th
When two planes crashed into the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, architects knew skyscraper design would never be the same.One of those was Dan Kaplan, a senior partner at the firm FXFOWLE. He watched...
View ArticleTimes Square Visitors Say Good Riddance to 2016
It was out with old, as people lined up Wednesday afternoon in Times Square for a chance to write down whatever experiences they wanted to shred from 2016.A mobile Shred-It truck had come to cart away...
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In the Heart of Times Square, A Love Note for Immigrants
A temporary public art piece in Times Square is sending a message to New York City's many immigrants: "We Were Strangers Once Too." That's the title of the installation, on view until March 5,...
View ArticleNYPD Calls Sword Death of Black Man an 'Assault' on the City's Diversity
New York City officials are calling the death of a black man who they say was repeatedly stabbed with a sword by a white U.S. Army veteran from Baltimore "an assault" on the city's inclusiveness and...
View ArticleBronx Man Charged With Murder for Driving Into Pedestrians in Times Square,...
Updated: Friday, 7:00 p.m.The New York Police Department says 26-year-old Richard Rojas, of the Bronx, was charged late Thursday with second-degree murder, 20 counts of attempted murder and aggravated...
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At least 1 person killed after car hits and injures pedestrians in New York...
First responders are at the scene as people help injured pedestrians after a vehicle struck pedestrians on a sidewalk in Times Square in New York, U.S., May 18, 2017. REUTERS/Jeremy SchultzAt least one...
View Article#AskTheMayor: Times Square Attack, Vision Zero and Subway Delays
Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC, including the attack in Times Square on Thursday in which a car ran over dozens of pedestrians, the...
View ArticleWhen the Pay Phone Rings, Answer It
Three phone booths are back in Midtown Manhattan, but they don’t work like typical phones. Part of an art installation by Afghan-American artist Aman Mojadidi in partnership with the Times Square...
View ArticleFederal Charges Brought Against Midtown Bombing Suspect
Federal prosecutors charged 27-year-old Akayed Ullah with crimes related to detonating an improvised explosive in a subway tunnel during rush hour Monday morning. "The location and timing of his...
View ArticleAnnouncing globalFEST 2019!
globalFEST at the Copacabana, Jan. 6, 2019Tickets: $65 and up. Secure a ticket via IndieGoGoGlobalFEST, the long-running showcase celebrating new artists, old perspectives, and expansive cultural...
View ArticleUnison
Despite the persistent rain in New York a few days ago, the usual crowds celebrated New Year's Eve in Times Square, shoulder to shoulder. We are, after all, in this together. When we do things not only...
View Article'Everyone's on Edge Right Now,' Times Square Workers Say After Brief Stampede
On Tuesday evening, Times Square descended into mass panic after crowds mistook the loud noise of a motorcycle backfiring for gunfire. Asked about the stampede the following morning, workers and...
View ArticleBroadway Returns: 'On Broadway' Documentary
[REBROADCAST FROM AUGUST 19, 2021] Director Oren Jacoby joins us to discuss his new documentary, "On Broadway," which opened in NY on August 20. The film explores the inside story of Broadway’s last...
View ArticleMix of relief and optimism from Asylum seekers arriving at Times Square Hotel
A sprawling tent encampment on Randalls Island meant to house single men seeking asylum sits largely empty by all accounts. But families have continued to arrive in New York City — and many of them...
View ArticleWhere Will NYC Casinos Be Located?
A coalition that includes Broadway theater owners and restaurateurs have voiced opposition to plans for a casino in Times Square. Dana Rubinstein, New York Times metro reporter, explains why these...
View ArticleAugust 29, 2023: Evening Roundup
Service on the 1,2 and 3 subway lines are back up and running, after a water main break disrupted the morning commute for more than 300,000 New Yorkers. Plus, WNYC’s Sean Carlson talks with Laurie...
View ArticleNYC's Tourists Are (Mostly) Back
New York City's tourist numbers are steadily climbing up, with one noticeable exception. Greg David, contributor covering fiscal and economic issues for THE CITY and director of the business and...
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