The heady days of New York epitomized by Wall Street excess and rampant wealth may seem a far-flung memory, but the city still retains its buzz, its high-octane spirit that is the essence of its magical personality as a place where anything can happen.
They say that if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere, so here are some tips to help you make the most of New York.
Two people are injured when a stunt man loses control of a car in Times Square
Strong winds, frigid temperatures and blowing snow froze celebrators from around the world as they ushered in 2009 in New York's Times Square on Wednesday night.
Extra security has been ordered while the city preps for a freezing night of celebration
It's every city's favorite excuse for a party. Here are ten spectacular ways to ring in 2009.
Taylor Swift, Ne-Yo and Kellie Pickler will also join hosts Ryan Seacrest and Fergie for New Year's Eve
As the markets plunged again on Friday, the reactions from working people, business owners and investors ranged from optimism to despair.
Two weeks ago in midtown Manhattan, time stood still -- literally. After the country's debt surpassed $10 trillion, the marquee-sized debt clock in Times Square, which has kept a running tally of the U.S. national debt for nearly 20 years, ran out of digits. For a nation already struggling with a bleak economic reality, it was a less-than-reassuring display. Several news organizations quipped about such a literal "sign of the times," while the satiricial newspaper The Onion offered its own brand of gallows humor: "If everyone just donated one dollar, we would have enough money to buy a new clock."Luckily, citizens won't have to pitch in. New York real estate firm The Durst Organization, which owns and operates the clock, plans to install an updated model sometime next year that can display a quadrillion dollars. In the meantime, the company has hacked the current display to provide a temporary solution -- replacing the dollar sign at the front of the number number with an extra digit.
You may want to try this at home. Suresh Joachim (YOH'-kum), of Toronto, and Claudia Wavra (wahv-RA'), of Germany, claim to have broken the world record for continuous movie watching, after seeing 57 films in 123 hours
The heady days of New York epitomized by Wall Street excess and rampant wealth may seem a far-flung memory, but the city still retains its buzz, its high-octane spirit that is the essence of its magical personality as a place where anything can happen.
They say that if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere, so here are some tips to help you make the most of New York.
Two people are injured when a stunt man loses control of a car in Times Square
Strong winds, frigid temperatures and blowing snow froze celebrators from around the world as they ushered in 2009 in New York's Times Square on Wednesday night.
Extra security has been ordered while the city preps for a freezing night of celebration
It's every city's favorite excuse for a party. Here are ten spectacular ways to ring in 2009.
Taylor Swift, Ne-Yo and Kellie Pickler will also join hosts Ryan Seacrest and Fergie for New Year's Eve
As the markets plunged again on Friday, the reactions from working people, business owners and investors ranged from optimism to despair.
Two weeks ago in midtown Manhattan, time stood still -- literally. After the country's debt surpassed $10 trillion, the marquee-sized debt clock in Times Square, which has kept a running tally of the U.S. national debt for nearly 20 years, ran out of digits. For a nation already struggling with a bleak economic reality, it was a less-than-reassuring display. Several news organizations quipped about such a literal "sign of the times," while the satiricial newspaper The Onion offered its own brand of gallows humor: "If everyone just donated one dollar, we would have enough money to buy a new clock."Luckily, citizens won't have to pitch in. New York real estate firm The Durst Organization, which owns and operates the clock, plans to install an updated model sometime next year that can display a quadrillion dollars. In the meantime, the company has hacked the current display to provide a temporary solution -- replacing the dollar sign at the front of the number number with an extra digit.
You may want to try this at home. Suresh Joachim (YOH'-kum), of Toronto, and Claudia Wavra (wahv-RA'), of Germany, claim to have broken the world record for continuous movie watching, after seeing 57 films in 123 hours
The DWTS and Spamalot star will lead the Times Square event
Most New Yorkers and visitors to Times Square know of The Naked Cowboy.
The New York Police Department has released photos of a bicycle and a suspect in Thursday's Times Square recruitment center bombing.
Investigators trying to track down the person who set off a small bomb in front of a military recruitment center in Times Square have dismissed one lead and are casting doubt on another.
Letters claiming responsibility for the bombing of a military recruiting station in New York's Times Square arrived in the Washington offices of several members of Congress on Thursday, just hours after the blast, authorities said.
A small but potentially fatal blast in Times Square snarls traffic and has eerie similarities to two previous unsolved attacks
Avoid the mile-long lines at the Times Square TKTS booth by buying discounted Broadway tickets using one of these eight approaches.
Harry Macklowe isn't afraid of bad weather. Three years ago a storm came up while the New York developer was sailing with friends near the Corsican coast on Unfurled, his 112-foot yacht. His wife, Linda, and their guests, attorney Samuel Lindenbaum and his spouse, took refuge in their cabins. They were all seasick. Macklowe, however, donned foul-weather gear and happily went up on deck to help sail the yacht with his captain and crew. "It was amazing," Lindenbaum recalls. "Harry was competing with nature - and he won!"
Another year, another opportunity to reflect and look forward.
New York celebrates the centennial of its most famous New Year's tradition Monday, as organizers of the Times Square ball drop have given the crystal globe an environmental makeover.
It's time to drop the ball in New York City. But this time, the stat keepers don't have to chalk up another turnover for the Knicks. This time New Yorkers can actually cheer as they watch the giant orb fall in Times Square.
Take the family out this weekend: Richard Corliss picks the top three must-see Christmas spectacles in the Big Apple
The talk-show host discusses going back to work during the writers' strike, the new threat to TV and another New Year's Eve
Lindsay Lohan's dad, Michael, was getting into the holiday spirit on Tuesday night in Manhattan.
As a snowstorm swept New York City last week, FSB joined members of the Writer's Guild of America East (WGAE) gathered to protest in Times Square, where savvy entrepreneurs took advantage of the striking writers' congregation to get exposure for products aimed at alleviating the miseries of extended stretches in the frozen outdoors.
I Am Legend paints an appropriately gloomy picture of postapocalyptic New York, says Richard Corliss -- but it's an odd locale for one of Hollywood's most winning actors
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." -- Thomas Edison
It was only half an hour into Black Friday, and a customer at the Toys 'R' Us flagship store in Manhattan's Times Square was already yelling, "The Zunes are done!"
Valentine's Day has come early for Paris Hilton, who is launching her new fragrance, Can Can, with richly colored, heart-themed print ads featuring the heiress in a stunning red dress.
She's best known for building other people's brands, but Lazarus herself is one of the biggest names in advertising. With a blue-chip client roster that's the envy of Madison Avenue, the head of WPP's Ogilvy & Mather runs one of the most prestigious agencies in the world. Fortune's Matthew Boyle asked her your questions - and ours - on everything from Mattel's recall crisis to what it's like to be on the GE board.
A visit to the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty and the Pyramids is on the itinerary of most jet-setting travelers.
The estimated jackpot for the Mega Millions lottery has reached a record $370 million, spurring throngs of hopeful winners to scoop up lottery tickets in 12 participating states ahead of Tuesday night's drawing in New York's Times Square.
A record 1 million revelers are expected to pack Times Square to ring in 2007, the Times Square Alliance said Sunday.
For the hundreds of Black Friday shoppers crowded in front of the Toys R' Us in Times Square, thoughts of T.M.X. Elmo - not sugar plums - danced through their heads.
THE SHAWS, LITCHFIELD, CONN.
Choosing a hotel in New York City has long meant deciding between two less-than-winning options: splurging beyond your financial comfort zone, or resigning yourself to what could be a fleabag. Not anymore -- and the middle ground is far more stylish than you might expect.
Technology revolutions have touched every aspect of daily life, except one: light.
Small waves, one after the other, lap the shore. Two Sri Lankan villagers walk along the water's edge, searching for bodies washed up by the tide. They come every morning, leave without answers. Some days they find nothing. Today there's a torn shoe and a piece of broken fence.
Monopoly, invented in 1935, is getting with the times.
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Would you pay more to sprinkle Times Square with pictures of yourself and your family on New Year's Eve?
So obviously, an activity-packed destination is a must. But which destination? That depends on the kinds of activities most likely to engage your particular brood: the bright lights of the Big Apple, where we hear there's a lot to do, or the rugged charms of a Colorado dude ranch, where the nonstop diversions include fly fishing, white-water rafting and, of course, horseback riding. --D.R. AND K.A. ...
A helium-filled balloon taking part in New York's annual Thanksgiving parade hit a lamppost near Times Square on Thursday, causing a light to fall and injure two sisters from Albany, officials said.
Call up a mental image of bygone America--men in fedoras, women in stoles--and chances are it will be in black and white. We tend to see the past in monochrome, which is why color photographs from ...
No matter what age your kids are, the potential pitfall of any family vacation remains the same: boredom. Children need constant entertainment, especially when removed from their natural habitat. S...
Floyd Hayes, a British-born, New York-based adman auctioned off the rights to his voice on eBay last month for $750.
Pete Hamill's Manhattan never gets old.
If you ask me, New Year's celebrations are proof that we are essentially optimistic creatures.
The rowdiness of New Year's Eve in Times Square, New York was interrupted by a moment of silence for the victims of the tsunami disaster in southern Asia.
Law enforcement officials are using chemical sensors to test air quality at Times Square in advance of Friday night's New Year's Eve celebration.
Figuring that business travelers spend most of their time in hotels asleep, both Westin and Marriott have been pushing plush beds in their ads. Westin says its campaign has been so successful that ...
New York's transit agency is considering selling corporate sponsorships to the city's subway stations, bus lines, bridges and tunnels, according to a published report.
A liberal advocacy group reached an agreement Thursday with Clear Channel Communications that will allow an anti-war billboard to go up in New York's Times Square in time for the Republican National Convention.
A liberal organization filed a federal suit Monday against Clear Channel Communications alleging breach of contract for its rejection of a billboard that would have placed an anti-war message in Times Square.
In an age when you can check your watch against the time on your cellphone, those alternating time and temperature readouts on banks and office buildings may seem passé. But when Luke Williams and ...
A banker and a man who imitates apes were among the hundreds of people who lined up in Times Square Thursday looking for their bit of reality TV renown.
This one will make you or break you. You've got three hours before that final presentation to a key client, and you're as prepped as you can possibly be. Now what? Option A--for "anxiety-inducing"-...
Please listen carefully, Mr. Roark," newspaper mogul Gail Wynand instructs the architect hero of Ayn Rand's 1943 novel, The Fountainhead. "I wish to undertake the construction of the Wynand Buildin...
The focus of security concerns shifted coasts Thursday from Times Square's confetti-filled atmosphere at midnight to the chilly but flowery Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, where police officials said they expected no damper on the day's festivities, despite the nationwide orange terror alert.
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head Capitol Just when rock was verging on brain death, along comes A Rush of Blood to the Head--which lives up to its title. Grandiose, ambitious, and utterly addic...
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Not everyone is buying the IRS' less oppressive image. Dozens of Asian-American entrepreneurs in Los Angeles say the IRS has unfairly targeted them for audits and has selectively charged an "ozone ...
$98 Waterford's crystal Times Square Collection paperweight is a replica of the ball that will drop at midnight for the first time this New Year's Eve. Click on www.waterford-usa.com for dealers.
Could the national debt soon be an endangered species? Although $7.5 trillion in outstanding notes and bonds won't fade away quickly, the capital is agog with the notion that both the deficit and t...
Theater fans may talk about the lullaby of Broadway, but there's nothing soothing about paying as much as $100 for an orchestra seat on the Great White Way, $199 a night for a hotel room in Times S...
So this guy is walking along the sidewalk on Third Avenue when he sees a man lying on his back in the gutter. "Are you okay?" the guy asks. "Oh, I'm fine," the man in the gutter says. "I just found...
For a world filled with thumbs practiced at clicking TV remotes to avoid commercials, we certainly are a species willing to sell out and wear advertising. To capture the essence of Homo promotus, F...
Disney on 42nd Street? The mind boggles. In February 1994, when the Walt Disney Co. announced it would be staging theatrical productions on "the Deuce"--the porn-plagued, drug-infested, crime-ridde...
Once that big ball in Times Square has fallen, you've lost the opportunity to capture all kinds of tax deductions that must be lined up before the year's last midnight. This means that if you're li...
Presidential candidates might learn something from men's clothing seller Tommy Hilfiger, whose diversity-laced marketing has made his collegiate clothes as chic in country clubs like the Congressio...
NOT MANY PEOPLE realize just how stunningly big the commercial real estate debacle really is or how savagely it will continue to sweep through the U.S. economy. For a frame of reference, imagine th...
Company travel budgets may be shrinking, but that needn't crimp your style. Here's some good news: -- Suite comfort. The trend to all-suites hotels continues. For the cost of a hotel bedroom, you g...
It has been nine years since the present writer vented his view of preservationism, and nothing much has changed in the interim, including his view. The last time we went around this track, the big...
Not a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. In late April a seat changed hands for $1 million, the highest price ever until the next day, when another seat sold for $1.1 million. It may not mean muc...
Many real estate developers scoffed when J. W. Marriott Jr. announced plans to build a $200-a-room luxury hotel in New York's sleazy Times Square (FORTUNE, October 31, 1983). But the Marquis is set...
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