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On May 1, 2010, a terrorist attack was attempted in Times Square in Manhattan, New York, United States. Two street vendors alerted NYPD after they spotted smoke coming from a vehicle, and a car bomb was discovered. [ 1][ 2] The bomb had been ignited, but failed to explode, and was disarmed before it caused any casualties. [ 1][ 3][ 4] Two days ...
New York City Ballet ( NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine [ 1] and Lincoln Kirstein. [ 2] Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company's first music director. City Ballet grew out of earlier troupes: the Producing Company of the ...
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City. It is formed by the junction of Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 42nd Street. Together with adjacent Duffy Square, Times Square is a bowtie -shaped plaza five blocks long between 42nd and 47th ...
Located in Fort Schuyler, history of the US maritime industry including commercial shipping, the merchant marine, and the port of New York. Merchant's House Museum. Greenwich Village. Manhattan. Historic house. 19th-century family town home. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Museum Mile. Manhattan.
Palladium Times Square (formerly PlayStation Theater, Best Buy Theater and Nokia Theatre Times Square) [ 1 ] is an indoor live events venue in New York City, located in One Astor Plaza, at the corner of Broadway and 44th Street. It was designed by architect David Rockwell and opened in September 2005. The venue has a large standing room ...
Hotel Astor was a hotel on Times Square in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, United States. Built in 1905 and expanded in 1909–1910 for the Astor family, the hotel occupied a site bounded by Broadway, Shubert Alley, and 44th and 45th Streets. [ 1] Architects Clinton & Russell designed the hotel as an 11-story Beaux-Arts ...
34 Street–Hudson Yards. / 40.7558389°N 74.0019611°W / 40.7558389; -74.0019611. The 34th Street–Hudson Yards station is a New York City Subway station in Manhattan 's West Side on the IRT Flushing Line, and is the western ( railroad south) terminus for the 7 local and <7> express services. It has two tracks and one island platform ...
The World (originally opened as WWF New York) was a World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE) themed restaurant, nightclub and retail store in Times Square in New York City, leased in the Paramount Theatre building. The venue was best known for featuring in segments on Monday Night Raw, and having Sunday Night Heat emanate from its complex, hosted ...