Snøhetta may have opened up an office in New York to oversee big commissions like the Times Square redesign and the 9/11 visitors’ center. But its latest project--a humble pavilion overlooking Snøhetta mountain at Dovrefjell ...READ»
Building on the success of last year's live web stream of the event, this year New York's Times Square New Year's celebration is getting an official iPhone and Android app. So now you can celebrate New York City's big party anywhere on the planet. Instead of, you know, where you are. READ»
Remember when Times Square was the raunch capital of New York, the kinda’ place where The Devil in Miss Jones passed for great film and pasties for high fashion? This is how square the neighborhood has gotten: The last peep show ...READ»
While visiting New York this week for the American publication of his latest book "Cities for People"--a kind of manual for making walkable cities--Jan Gehl invited me to sit with him in Bryant Park to observe the sidewalk ballet and discuss what he calls “the needs of the urban habitat of homo sapiens.”READ»
Artist Molly Dilworth wins a competition to paint over the recently pedestrianized square; the soothing blues that will supposedly cool the streets down.READ»
The drama about the Times Square bombing event is continuing, and now a suspect is in custody, thanks to science and forensics. But it looks like the suspect's grip of science wasn't so hot: His bomb probably wouldn't have been as ...READ»
When Faisal Shahzad allegedly drove his Nissan Pathfinder, packed with explosives, into Times Square on Saturday, he was likely aiming for a place dense with tourists, theatergoers, sidewalk hucksters, and at least one naked cowboy -- ...READ»
Have you been to Times Square lately? You may have seen this Best Buy billboard. At first glance, it looks like just another billboard made out of funky bric-a-brac, but look a bit closer and you'll notice that it's made out of old ...READ»
Janette Sadik-Khan cut through the congested knots of Manhattan traffic with a novel concept: Close some roads to cars. Green Light for Midtown, a project launched last May, has turned lanes of Broadway in Times Square and Herald Square into pedestrian zones--and sped up traffic.READ»
