Tag: Times Square
There are two certainties in life: New Year’s Eve will never live up to the hype and you will constantly be surrounded by people waxing nostalgic about the good old days. Unfortunately for the good old days, they weren’t all that good. No matter what era you pick in New York City’s history, it has […]
Five museums — New York’s Whitney, Washington’s National Gallery of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art — will be taking over 50,000 various outdoor advertising spaces in August, from electronic billboards to bus shelters to subway ads, coast to coast. The Dallas Museum of […]
The above ad, for the medical marijuana-reviewing site Weedmaps, was supposed to begin playing on a Times Square video billboard Tuesday. Weedmaps had approval from Neutron Media, the company that owns and operates the space, but when representatives went to see the looping advertisement this week, it wasn’t playing. CBS, whose logo appears on the billboard, […]
Passengers at the Times Square-42nd Street station tattled on two clowns Wednesday night leading to the subway performers’ arrest. Since the two didn’t have permits, they were charged with “loitering with the purpose of entertaining,” and hauled off to a Midtown police station. Though they seemed in good spirits. “They sang the Beatles song ‘Goodnight’ […]
There’s only one thing worse than Times Square during New Year’s Eve, and that’s Times Square during this year’s Super Bowl. MetLife Stadium in New Jersey — where the so-called New York Giants and Jets play — will be hosting this year’s event featuring the Denver Broncos facing off against the Seattle Seahawks. But because […]
Artist and activist Steve Lambert’s traveling piece Capitalism Works For Me! is a large illuminated sign and a voting podium. You vote “yes” or “no” on whether capitalism works for you and the results are tallied and displayed on the sign — in real time. Today, it was installed in Times Square, on Broadway between 46th […]
Last night, a crazy guy was running in the street near Port Authority and trying to get hit by cars, so he was confronted by NYPD officers at the corner of 8th Avenue and 42nd Street. He reportedly reached into his pocket, and pulled out his MetroCard and mimicked shooting police with it. Two officers […]
Yes, Times Square Cookie Monsters are capable of such feats of strength as punching toddlers in the face, but they’re also only human. On that note, redditor DX-SUCK-IT (cool name) captured the man in blue taking some time off to ogle a few body-painted topless women (Andy Golub in the house?) during a recent visit to […]
This nice-looking new timelapse focuses on the NYC’s most played-out neighborhood: Midtown. And though its iconic skyscrapers, theaters, and, uh, video ads are well-worn subjects even for tourists, the area’s bright lights and constant bustle do make for pretty excellent timelapse material, and the camera-work on this thing is stunning. There are a few stray […]
It’s hard to imagine Times Square before it became the Disneyfied, Toys-R-Us-bag-toting-tourist-and-kiddie-infested postcard of Capitalist America that we hate so dearly today. Luckily, we’ve come across the photo collection of Gregoire Alessandrini to remind us that those days were more than just folklore. While attending a local film school in the mid-90’s, Alessandrini always carried […]
