Roseland Ballrom, the iconic dancing and concert hall set in what was once the cultural center of the Universe (i.e. Times Square), is se...

Walking up Eighth Avenue in Hell's Kitchen the other night I noticed that the building I once referred to as William Waldorf Astor...

Last week, I posted an item about how the four statues that adorned Times Square's century-old I. Miller shoe store building had dis...

One of the first closures I wrote about on this blog, back in 2006, was of Barrymore's , the Theatre District eatery. It was one of f...

Broadway's Little Theatre—known for the past 30 years as the Helen Hayes Theatre, and Broadway's smallest house—recently commemor...

Virgil's, the huge Times Square BBQ joint, recently got a big new sign and bright red awnings to go with it, I noticed. They also exc...

Here are a set of old triplets on W. 46th Street east of Broadway in Times Square. Aren't too many left in this area with this level of...

Found this page of ads in an old theatre magazine from the late 1940s. My choice? As much as I like me some frogs legs Provencal, I want to...

I was browsing through an old magazine when I found this 1919 ad for the I. Miller shoe store in Times Square. The Miller building, which ...

Is this patch of ugly old buildings, on W. 46th Street east of Broadway, the last ungentrified section of squeaky clean Times Square? It...

On second thought, I'm not that hungry. On a side street just off Times Square.

The Bowlmor Lanes sign on W. 44th is just the sort of wonderful neon placard that you want and expect  to see in Times Square. Must have co...

Not only is "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" the most beleaguered and probably worst show on Broadway, it has the poorest marquee....

I don't look for authenticity in Times Square much anymore. Maybe that's why I've never gone inside Ray's Beauty Supply on ...

In an area already populated with obscene "stores" dedicated to merchandising the most horrifying junk food known to man, the Pop...

Scratch one more of the few affordable old bars left in Times Square. The Rum House, long embedded inside the Edison Hotel, on W. 47th St...

I may be utterly skewered for saying this, but there's something about this Times Square Applebee's sign I like. I know Applebee...

The new ground floor bar at the old Times Square steakhouse Frankie & Johnnie's is officially open. It opened last Thursday. My h...

I thought, based on a recent  visit to Times Square, that the old steakhouse Frankie & Johnnie's new ground-floor bar would be ope...

Here's the big old ugly, flashy, kinetic American Eagle building on 46th and Seventh, where the old Howard Johnson's used to be. ...