"This is the extension of Midtown, the preeminent business district in the world," said Weisbrod.

Published by New York Post on September 22, 2008.

According to Mr. Powers, none of the 10 landlords that control 42 percent of the Midtown office market are overleveraged, which should have a stabilizing effect.

Published by The New York Observer on September 19, 2008.

In these fleeting moments, the clouds caught the shimmering light of day’s end and the streets began to glitter with street lights and neon signs. Framed by the canyons of Midtown, these ephemeral effects, highlighted by a black border on each print, take the shape of upside-down skyscrapers.

Published by New York Times on September 19, 2008.

A nonprofit group that spruces up Midtown is violating the civil rights of four Rastafarian workers by ordering them to hide their dreadlocks under their uniform caps, the feds charged yesterday.

Published by New York Post on September 18, 2008.

Ms. Langfield notes that only a few skyscrapers have accessible spaces at the top: the Empire State Building charges $34, Rockefeller Center charges $18 and Open House NY, the annual design and architecture weekend festival that is scheduled for Oct. 4 to 5 this year, charges a whopping $500 for a tour of the top of the Woolworth Building.

Published by New York Times on September 18, 2008.

A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday claims the four officers, who patrol midtown streets for the Grand Central Partnership, are victims of religious discrimination.

Published by New York Daily News on September 18, 2008.

For nearly 30 breathtaking minutes, New Yorkers stared upward in disbelief as two men hung, trapped, on a scaffold that partially collapsed. The scare happened 70 stories above the ground in midtown.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 18, 2008.

Magnolia Bakery (Sixth Avenue at West 49th Street) "Sex and the City's" favorite cupcake shop hopes to open its third location, this time near Rockefeller Center, before the autumnal equinox.

Published by New York Sun on September 17, 2008.

Playwright Tony Kushner has a big reason to smile this morning, as he's been named the first recipient of the ‘Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award,' aka the Mimi, which carries with it a $200K prize. The award, which was established earlier this year by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, and which honors and promotes artistic achievement in the theater, will be presented at a ceremony on Tuesday, October 21, at 620 Loft & Garden at Rockefeller Center.

Published by The New York Observer on September 17, 2008.

As part of the deal, Barclays would get Lehman's Seventh Avenue office in Midtown Manhattan, with more than one million square feet of office space. Two data centers in New Jersey will also be part of the transaction.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 16, 2008.

More than a week after Upp vanished, she was spotted checking her e-mail twice at an Apple store in midtown Manhattan. She showered eight times at several city New York Sports Clubs, where she had a gym membership, police said.

Published by amNY.com on September 16, 2008.

Unknown to the Garnseys — and probably most New Yorkers — there is a handsome bear specimen not far from Wall Street, in the Alfred E. Smith Playground Catherine and Monroe Streets. It is a grave figure, rendered in 1946 by Paul Manship, the sculptor of Prometheus at Rockefeller Center.

Published by New York Times on September 16, 2008.

The midtown Manhattan incident was one in a wave of fatal construction mishaps in the city dating to last year. On May 30, another tower crane broke apart and fell on an apartment building, killing two workers. Other crane operations were suspended temporarily.

Published by WNBC on September 15, 2008.

The incident on East 51st Street, in busy midtown Manhattan, was one in a wave of fatal construction mishaps in the city dating back to last year. On May 30, another tower crane broke apart and fell on an apartment building, killing two workers. Other crane operations were suspended temporarily.

Published by New York Post on September 15, 2008.

Quick action by a veteran subway operator helped save the life of a man who had fallen onto the tracks and wound up under the train at a busy Midtown station during yesterday's morning rush hour.

Published by New York Post on September 13, 2008.

They said the worker summoned the elevator to the fifth floor of the midtown building around 3 p.m. Friday. He stepped in when the doors opened, but the elevator wasn't there.

Published by WNBC on September 13, 2008.

Prosecutors said Follieri was a sophisticated con man who went to elaborate lengths to carry out his scam and then spent his ill-gotten gains to fly across the world in a private jet with his celebrity girlfriend and to live a life of luxury at his Manhattan penthouse overlooking Rockefeller Center and Central Park.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 10, 2008.

A Brooklyn federal judge handed down the saucy verdict saying that the two battling Patsy's will have to be separately named eateries - Patsy's Pizzeria in Harlem and Patsy's Italian Restaurant in midtown.

Published by New York Daily News on September 10, 2008.

He devoted much of his speech to a recitation of the state’s economic woes and the need for spending cuts, not tax increases, as a first line of defense, to the pleasure of the more than 300 business executives and elected officials who gathered in the ballroom of a Midtown hotel.

Published by New York Times on September 9, 2008.

The Port Authority has drastically cut police patrols around its Midtown bus terminal to pre-9/11 levels - including removing officers from three booths erected after the attacks to thwart terrorism.

Published by New York Post on September 8, 2008.

Midtown South's vacancy rate was nearly 10 percent in August, its highest in years, driven up by vacancies in Chelsea and the Flatiron.

Published by The New York Observer on September 8, 2008.

The three lots, at the corner of Grand Street, will eventually be used to expand the museum to a planned 10,000 square feet. The museum, which first opened in June 2001, was originally situated in a Midtown office building on West 44th Street, until closing in June for the relocation.

Published by New York Times on September 8, 2008.

Midtown's vacancy rate was 8.1 percent in August, down slightly from July and up from 6.3 percent a year ago.

Published by The New York Observer on September 8, 2008.

"It was my goal to be a home-owner in my 30s," said Pagan, 35, a legal secretary in midtown. Jimenez, 33, is a staffer at Brooklyn Law School's career services office.

Published by New York Daily News on September 7, 2008.

Beyonce Knowles finally showed off her wedding ring on the red carpet for Fashion Rocks at Radio City Music Hall on Friday night.

Published by New York Daily News on September 7, 2008.

On Wednesday night, at a meeting of Community Board 5 to discuss the matter, one man denounced the hotel as “a behemoth on our streets.” Most of the 70 residents attending, though, were dismayed at how little notice they said they had had of the plan.

Published by New York Times on September 6, 2008.

Fashion Week launched with a star-studded soundtrack last night at Radio City Music Hall.

Published by New York Daily News on September 6, 2008.

Officials say a construction worker's rigging license has been suspended and he's facing administrative charges after a worker plummeted 40 stories to his death at a midtown Manhattan skyscraper.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 6, 2008.

Attorney Lawrence Saftler said his 38-year-old client had been drinking at Johnny Utah's near Rockefeller Center when injured May 7.

Published by WNBC on September 5, 2008.

Saks Fifth Avenue's flagship store in Midtown has been slammed with its second major in-house theft, prosecutors announced.

Published by New York Post on September 5, 2008.

Four parts of Manhattan constitute the bulk of the boom: Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen; Lower Manhattan; Midtown, and the Upper West Side.

Published by New York Sun on September 5, 2008.

Mitsui Fudosan, which didn’t return a call for comment, has only a small presence in the United States. According to its web site, the only building it currently owns in Manhattan is 1251 6th Ave., which it purchased in 1986.

Published by Crain's New York Business on September 3, 2008.

One of the biggest headaches for them has been the Broadway pedestrian islands - plazas that stretch onto the road - a popular summer feature that Midtown denizens expect will be deserted come the cold weather, even as they still tie up traffic.

Published by New York Post on September 2, 2008.

The conglomerate is looking for so much space, according to the insider, in part because it plans to sell some of the commercial condo space it now occupies in Rockefeller Center.

Published by The New York Observer on September 2, 2008.

Climbers: Three different men scaled the outside of the Midtown headquarters of The New York Times to call attention to various causes.

Published by New York Times on August 29, 2008.

Last December, bearded designer Rogan Gregory and his partner Scott Hahn were invited to a Christmas party at the Midtown home of nonegenarian labor lawyer and free subway advocate Theodore Kheel. Mayor Michael Bloomberg was there, as was Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. ("It was definitely a bit of an older crowd," recalled Mr. Hahn.)

Published by The New York Observer on August 27, 2008.

“I think it’s dangerous,” said Vicki Lee, who nonetheless sat with two friends eating lunch at a cafe table on the esplanade just south of 38th Street. Ms. Lee, a clothing designer at a Midtown fashion company, was careful to sit so that she could keep an eye on the traffic heading downtown.

Published by New York Times on August 26, 2008.

As if New York wasn’t stimulating enough already, the city has provided a new kind of thrill right in the heart of Midtown: an esplanade carved into Broadway where people can sit and relax as cars and trucks whiz by.

Published by New York Times on August 26, 2008.

While it may be becoming less expensive to rent an apartment in Manhattan, some brokers are hesitant to go as far as to label this a renters’ market. “It’s difficult to call it that,” says Sepp Seitz, a Halstead broker active in midtown west and Chelsea. “If you look at rents here, they are incredibly higher than elsewhere. There is still low inventory, and what is renting is going very quickly.”

Published by The New York Observer on August 26, 2008.

The neighborhoods that counted the most conditions last month range from leafy Bellerose, Queens, to boisterous Inwood, Manhattan. Those with the fewest included midtown and Gramercy Park in Manhattan; Crown Heights in Brooklyn; Kingsbridge and Riverdale in the Bronx and Astoria in Queens.

Published by New York Daily News on August 24, 2008.

“Mayor Bloomberg, if he wants to run for mayor a third time, I think it’s a great idea,” Mr. Paterson said in a question-and-answer session with reporters from his office in Midtown Manhattan. “There was a time he wanted to run for president. That wouldn’t have been a bad idea, either.”

Published by New York Times on August 22, 2008.

In all, the robber has struck 30 times -- seven total in Queens, 22 in Brooklyn, and one in Midtown Manhattan -- and has met success in all but two of the robberies.

Published by SI Live on August 20, 2008.

Ken Roller, 27, of midtown, was waiting for his usual large coffee with skimmed milk when he spotted the cash sitting on a Daily News box attached to the cart.

Published by New York Daily News on August 15, 2008.

It's grandly called Brooklyn Oenology, and its first releases of white and red wines can already be found at a range of local shops, including Blanc et Rouge in DUMBO and Morrell in Rockefeller Center. In a coup for her fledgling enterprise, Ms. Shaper's first merlot, vintage 2005, has made it onto the wine list at Gramercy Tavern.

Published by New York Sun on August 13, 2008.

The Bank of America building is a 2.1 million square foot, 54-story crystalline skyscraper located in the heart of Midtown Manhattan.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 12, 2008.

New York City officials say a glass panel being installed at a skyscraper under construction in midtown Manhattan has fallen more than 50 stories.

Published by amNY.com on August 12, 2008.

According to Ung, 8coupons.com boasted 60,000 unique users in July, up from 30,000 users in June, which in turn was up from around 20,000 in May. Ung wouldn’t discuss how much money her company has generated, but by the looks of things she’s doing well: She quit her day job and the company has moved from her home to a Midtown office.

Published by amNY.com on August 12, 2008.

A developer’s at least three-year-old plan for a 61-story Shangri-La hotel and condo project in midtown east is expected to sail through two City Council committees on Aug. 13, paving the way for the entire Council to approve the project the following day and for development to finally begin sometime thereafter.

Published by The New York Observer on August 12, 2008.

Faith Hope Consolo, who runs the retail leasing and sales division of Prudential Douglas Elliman, said even some of the biggest banks are still interested in adding branches in Harlem and other neighborhoods that aren't as well-served as midtown.

Published by New York Daily News on August 11, 2008.

The State Liquor Authority voted 2 to 1 on Wednesday to accept the family’s $500,000 settlement offer, rather than revoke its liquor licenses for more than four dozen violations of state law at nine venues, including the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center, Harry Cipriani at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel and Cipriani Wall Street.

Published by New York Times on August 7, 2008.