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• 51 W 51st Street Toots Shor's and the art of celebrity male bonding

  Shor moved on to his own establishment in 1940. Toots Shor's Restaurant (51 W 51st Street) would be an instant success, ruling for two decades as the neighborhood lounge for some...

  Published by The Bowery Boys | New York City History on June 12, 2009.

• 50 Rockefeller Plaza Zut Alors! French Bank Needs a New U.S. HQ

  ...back in 1994 that Société Générale moved its U.S. headquarters from 50 Rockefeller Plaza to 312,000 square feet at the McGraw-Hill building. (The New York Times made...

  Published by The New York Observer on March 31, 2009.

• 50 Rockefeller Plaza Square Feet: Manhattan Awash in Open Office Space

  ...to offer for sublet more than 300,000 square feet that it currently leases in 50 Rockefeller Plaza...

  Published by New York Times on December 3, 2008.

• 7 West 51st Street Whew! Parkoffs Cement $28 M. All-Cash Deal in 48 Hours

  The Parkoffs bought the 67-year-old building, at 7 West 51st Street, for $28 million. In so doing, they may have inadvertently started a trend. This October...

  Published by The New York Observer on November 5, 2008.

• 11 West 51st Street Chase sells Rockefeller Center bank site for $28M

  Chase sold the four-story building at 11 West 51st Street, now occupied by Venezuelan Mercantil Banco Universal, to a real estate investment trust on August 14, according to city property records posted today.

  Published by The Real Deal on October 2, 2008.

• Midtown CITY'S SPECTACULAR NEW W. SIDE STORY

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

  Published by New York Post on September 22, 2008.

• Midtown The City Visible: Little Sky Country

  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.

• Midtown Big Broker John Powers: 'Will Be a While Before We See Hope'

  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.

• midtown Workers Dangle 70-Stories High After Scaffold Fall

  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.

• midtown Rastafarian guards sue over dreads

  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.

• Midtown KEEP IT UNDER YOUR HAT

  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.

• Midtown Barclays reaches deal for Lehman Bros.

  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.

• midtown Missing Harlem teacher Hannah Upp rescued from NY Harbor

  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.

• 7 West 51st Street Banco Popular sells former US HQ for $28M

  The nine-story office building at 7 West 51st Street near Fifth Avenue has approximately 43,000 square feet of commercial space. Banco Popular North...

  Published by The Real Deal on September 16, 2008.

• 50 Rockefeller Center Midtown may take lumps along with Financial District

  Bank of America rents 400,000 square feet at nearby 114 W. 47th St. It was trying to find subtenants for that space - but could keep it to house workers from Merrill. Bank of America also has offices at 50 Rockefeller Center, 100 W. 33rd St. and 335 Madison Ave.

  Published by New York Daily News on September 16, 2008.

• midtown OSHA CITES CONTRACTERS IN DEADLY CRANE COLLAPSE

  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.

• midtown OSHA Cites Contractors In Deadly Crane Collapse

  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.

• midtown Building Super Dies In 5-Story Elevator Shaft Fall

  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.

• Midtown MAN SURVIVES SUBWAY SCARE

  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.

• midtown Judge dishes out name change for feuding eateries

  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.

• Midtown Paterson Won't Rule Out Tax Increases

  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.

• Midtown In Little Italy, a Former Bank Will Now Hold Immigrants’ Memories

  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 PA BIGS LOWER THEIR GUARD

  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 Manhattan Office Market: The Narrative Holds

  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.

• Midtown Manhattan Office Market: The Narrative Holds

  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.

• midtown Visit to a house led couple to a housing lottery

  "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.

• Manhattan CB 5 Chelsea: A Venerable School, and a Future Hotel

  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.

• midtown Administrative charges in deadly tower fall

  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.

• Midtown More School Construction Is Urged for Manhattan

  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.

• Midtown BUST AT 'RANSACKS' FIFTH AVE.

  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.