The project was scaled down from its original proposal, reducing from four floors to three and from 50 hotel rooms to 31. However, the modifications weren't enough to gain council support.

TIMES SQUARE (WABC) -- A new statue in Times Square has a lot of people talking, from praise to allegations of racism and sexism. It depicts a young black woman dressed in everyday clothes ...

When promoting her cookbook, Rachel Carlisle had to think out of the box Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared on PS, Stylecaster, Business ...

With 'Am Yisroel Chai' blaring, a new Torah was marched in Times Square in the heart of New York City, in honor of the 70th birthday of Rabbi Shea Hecht. The Torah will bring joy to children battling ...

The View, a newly opened restaurant taking over the top of the New York Marriott Marquis, a concrete hulk of a hotel in Times Square, belongs to neither stratum. In the decades since the hotel ...

Recently, a food vendor was shot in Times Square.That could have been me. I’ve worked as a street vendor in Times Square for more than 20 years, and while the neighborhood has come a long way ...

The taxpayer-funded effort transformed the headquarters of the American Red Cross, near Times Square, into a go-to destination for migrants to file paperwork for asylum and temporary work permits ...

In an interview in late April at the paper’s headquarters in Times Square, I asked Kingsbury what she considered to be her biggest achievement in the past five years. She made a sweeping motion ...

A new 12-foot-tall bronze statue of a Black woman unveiled in New York’s Times Square has sparked controversy on social media. The sculpture “Grounded in Stars” was created by Thomas Price ...

It really speaks to me to see a Black woman — a plus-size woman — standing in the middle of Times Square,” Faulkner told Hyperallergic. “I think it reflects what I hoped this country would ...