Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
#1Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
Posted: 12/13/13 at 3:11pm
#2Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
Posted: 12/13/13 at 3:16pmBecause Obama!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#2Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
Posted: 12/13/13 at 3:20pmFor those of us who drive within the City I can only imagine what traffic will be like during this time. That being said, I'm thrilled to see what they do with Times Square. Very exciting.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#3Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
Posted: 12/13/13 at 3:21pmBecause there is nothing more important on the planet than American football. The NFL is one helluva successful non-profit corporation.
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Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#4Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
Posted: 12/13/13 at 3:52pmBroadway from 33rd to 48th Streets. How much is this going to wind up costing us?
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Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#5Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
Posted: 12/13/13 at 3:55pmHas anyone told Patti LuPone yet?
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
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#6Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
Posted: 12/13/13 at 4:15pmIs this going to be like Summer Streets event they hold every August ? If so, it sounds like a lot of fun, although I am sure not for those who work in the area.
BudFrump23
Broadway Star Joined: 5/20/03
#7Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
Posted: 12/13/13 at 4:50pmThanks, New York. I almost forgot that I chose to work in a theme park and not a city.
I'm as jumpy as a virgin at a prison rodeo!
#8Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
Posted: 12/13/13 at 6:17pmPeople who work in that area will have just sighed a sigh of relief that that Damn Tree is gone, now this!
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
#9Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
Posted: 12/13/13 at 7:59pmGetting to the Equity building is going to be a picnic.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
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#10Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
Posted: 12/13/13 at 8:49pmSo people won't be able to get to the theaters or they'll be stopped at a certain area? Am I confused?
#11Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
Posted: 12/13/13 at 8:58pmWait, am I totally ignorant for not knowing the NFL was nonprofit? That's sickening.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
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#12Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
Posted: 12/13/13 at 11:35pm
Kad:
Critics cry foul as NFL defends nonprofit status (Oct 2013)
#13Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
Posted: 12/13/13 at 11:53pm
That article Liza posted does a good job mitigating what I thought that might mean; the League (the conglomeration of 32 tax-paying for-profit organizations) being a not-for-profit promotional organization for the sport makes some sense to me. I think it's more a problem of optics than practical swindling that some might imagine.
I don't think it's nearly as big a deal, in the long run, as the federal antitrust exemption that MLB boasts, for example.
As for the OP, this is fairly standard as far as I'm aware for a Super Bowl to have a weeklong festival of activities on prominent display in the host city. It just hasn't ever been held in a city like NYC since this NFL Experience became tradition. Times Square is a natural fit for what the NFL wants as its tourist base, just happens to be a markedly busier location than recent previous cities' locations (New Orleans, Indianapolis and Dallas the last three. I remember Indianapolis' made a big splash because they set up a massive zipline right through downtown - imagine that in Times Square??)
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
#14Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
Posted: 12/14/13 at 12:54amSometimes I miss living in Hell's Kitchen. This isn't one of those times.
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#15Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
Posted: 12/14/13 at 9:23amDid anyone notice that the building in the concept art id Macy's?
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#16Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
Posted: 12/14/13 at 12:11pm
Isn't the Nederlander on 41st Street? What if you want to see NEWSIES?
If Patti LuPone would like to join me in my "Bring the Hookers Back!" protest that weekend, please tell her to call me.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#17Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
Posted: 12/14/13 at 12:28pm
"If Patti LuPone would like to join me in my "Bring the Hookers Back!" protest that weekend, please tell her to call me."
When they put in the pedestrian walkways, it was Patti LuPone that said, "What am I supposed to do, say to a tourist Excuse me I have a show to get to."
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Liza's Headband
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#18Times Square Will Be Under Lockdown For A Week Before 2014 Super Bowl
Posted: 12/14/13 at 1:25pm
"Isn't the Nederlander on 41st Street? What if you want to see NEWSIES? "
You have to park further away and then walk....
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