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Upcoming Events On the Street “My normal lunch spot is the bench in the Broadway Winter’s EVE AT LINCOLN SQUARE mall on the north side of West 68th Street. I love it. The Monday, November 29, 5:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. BID is always out watering and tending to the flowers. Free entertainment, food tastings, family fun and And, my wife loves to shop at the stores on Broadway.” more along Broadway from Time Warner Center to — Alan Pinter, Product Specialist, Apple Store 68th Street. Kick-off tree lighting at Dante Park, Broadway at 63rd Street. www.winterseve.org “I love the arts — theatre and opera. I am inspired by HOLIDAY MARKET AT COLUMBUS CIRCLE the Juilliard School. I want to go there for college!” December 1 – 24, 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. — Ariel Cooper, Manhattan Theatre Lab High School SW entrance to Central Park at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Educational Campus www.urbanspacenyc.com/columbus-circle HOLIDAY UNDER THE STARS “I’ve worked for the BID for eleven years. There used to AT TIME WARNER CENTER be lots of garbage and graffiti. Not any more. We clean November 18 – December 31, starting at 5:00 p.m. everything! The benches on the malls, the tables and www.shopsatcolumbuscircle.com chairs in the parks, and we keep the streets clean. ” — Eloy Bravo, Lincoln Square BID Clean Team The Lincoln Square District Management Association, Inc. FIRST CLASS 1841 Broadway, Suite 1112 U.S. POSTAGE New York, NY 10023 PAID New York, NY Permit Number 3536 lincolnsquarebid.org Volunteer at Winter’s Eve and get a free gift…call Tim at 212.581.3774! It’s all here! neighborhood news neighborhood news Fall/Winter 2010 Dance, Dance, Dance at Winter’s Eve, November 29th ut on your dancing shoes for this year’s and Great Performances, Europan Bakery Café, Francesco annual Winter’s Eve bash on Pizzeria, Gabriel’s, Gourmet Garage, Grandaisy Bakery, PMonday, November 29! The Josephina, La Boite en Bois, Landmarc, Le Pain evening kicks off at 5:30 p.m. with Quotidien, Luce Restaurant & Enoteca, a Neighborhood Tree Lighting at Magnolia Bakery, P.J. Clarke’s, Picholine, Dante Park at Broadway and 63rd Porter House New York, Rosa Mexicano, Street. Renowned international jazz Sapphire Indian Cuisine, Screme Gelato guitarist, vocalist and bandleader, Bar, Soutine Bakery, Sushi a-go-go, John Pizzarelli, will treat the Telepan, ‘wichcraft, and others. crowd to a few melodies before Up and down Broad- lighting the holiday tree with way you’ll find entertainment WABC-TV’s Sade Baderinwa. venues, including Kids’ New this year is a dance tent on Central at the American Bible West 62nd Street, just west of Broadway. Society with KiDROCKERS and Eileen Ivers, NYC native and the daughter bite sized cupcakes for kids from of Irish immigrants, takes center stage with Magnolia Bakery; Time Warner her band Immigrant Soul. The New York Center with Big Apple Circus, Jazz at Times hails Ivers as “the Jimi Hendrix of the Lincoln Center and student choruses in violin,” while The Washington Post calls her Samsung Experience; the Apple Store “the future of the Celtic fiddle.” Having played and Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein with the likes of the London Symphony Orches- Atrium. Retailers such as Bed Bath & tra, The Chieftains, Sting, Patti Smith, Paula Beyond, Gracious Home, TD Bank, Cole and Al Di Meola, Eileen Ivers will provide lululemon athletica and Best Buy will plenty of music to get your toes tapping. welcome all to enjoy goodies, special Anat Cohen, the sublime tenor saxophone events and fun activities. player and clarinetist, will perform with her A portion of restaurant proceeds brother Avishai Cohen at the American Folk go to City Harvest. Admission is free, Art Museum’s Lincoln Square Branch at but please bring a canned food donation Columbus Avenue between 65th and 66th to Broadway and 63rd Street and help Streets. Her style reflects the influences of feed the hungry. modern and traditional jazz, classical music, Come to Winter’s Eve, rain, snow Brazilian choro, Argentine tango and or shine. For more information Afro-Cuban rhythms. about this year’s entertainment go Hear the Harlem Samba Brazilian Percussion to www.WintersEve.org. Ensemble, musicians from the Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem, present the rich sounds and traditional rhythms of Brazilian Carnival at Richard Tucker Park at Broadway and 66th Street. From 6:00 – 8:30 p.m., 30 local restaurants will set up under tents at Time Warner Center; along Broadway at 63rd and 64th Streets; and at Richard Tucker Park at 65th Street. Look for ® tastings (nominal cost $1-4) from A Voce, AQ Kafe, Asiate at the Mandarin Oriental, New York, Atlantic Grill, ® Bar Boulud, Bar Masa, Bouchon Bakery, Café Fiorello, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola Clean, Safe, Beautiful and Successful! hen asked exactly what the people, businesses and the arts. Lincoln Square Business Improve- “Only those who were here fourteen W ment District does, Monica Blum, years ago know how far we’ve come its President, answers simply, “Clean, and how important these critical services safe and beautiful.” She then adds, “and are,” said Andrew Pucher, Lincoln we promote our neighborhood’s busi- Square BID Chairman of the Board and nesses and wonderful assets.” Vice President of Global Operations FROM OUR PRESIDENT The BID, as it is called, was Management at the Walt Disney established in 1996, when the area was Company. “The District is attractive uzz is building for the 11th Annual in desperate need to residents, Winter’s Eve at Lincoln Square — of attention. Eloy tourists and Bravo, a longtime shoppers our holiday festival featuring an B member of the alike, making evening of fun, food and dance. Restaurants Clean Team crew, it a great place are refining their tasting menus, retail remembers to live, work and shops are planning in-store entertainment garbage in the enjoy the arts.” and promotions and we’re lining up talent streets, graffiti on The clean and to give you another memorable experience building walls and safe streets and in Lincoln Square. desolate parks beautiful parks on Broadway. are a tribute to the September’s debut of Mercedes-Benz Since then, ten men who work Fashion Week in Lincoln Square was a security personnel day in and day out boon for the neighborhood. Using special and eleven sanita- to sweep, shovel, promotions and our Information Carousels, tion crew members paint and patrol. work almost 365 Most of them have the BID encouraged attendees to venture days a year to make Lincoln Square the been at the job for more than eight years. beyond the tents and explore the neighbor- most beautiful neighborhood in the city. They are proud of their work over the hood’s many restaurants and shops. At the BID’s offices on 60th Street, our years and boast personal successes as hardworking staff is constantly finding well, some starting young families and News flash: audible signals for visually ways to improve services and enhance others sending children off to college. impaired pedestrians were recently installed the area for shoppers, diners, and theater- The Lincoln Square BID is a large, on West 65th Street at Columbus Avenue and goers. Outdoor information carousels offer extended family. Whether it’s Winter’s Eve, at Central Park West. The BID, in collaboration brochures and directories, the BID’s new parades, snow storms or the heat of with the Jewish Guild for the Blind and the Web site is a quick and easy resource and summer, the BID works tirelessly to provide Department of Transportation, considers events like Winter’s Eve bring together its core services and much more. this project a work in progress. We are thrilled with this first step and thank DOT. Board of Directors In the new year we say a fond goodbye to Andrew Albert Tom Dunn Andrew Pucher our friends at Barnes & Noble, a wonderful West Manhattan Chamber Lincoln Center for the The Walt Disney Company of Commerce Performing Arts community gathering place and corporate Gary Schutz Robert Battista Abigail Black Elbaum American Bible Society partner to the BID. At the same time, we Gracious Home Ogden CAP Properties, LLC Rudolf Tauscher welcome the new Century 21 department Georgette F. Bennett Mandarin Oriental, New York David Froelke store to Broadway and West 66th Street. Milstein Properties Related Companies Community Board 4 (vacant) Brian Byrne It’s “the ultimate high-end designer shop- Doug Griebel Fordham University George Zeppenfeldt-Cestero ping adventure,” offering chic labels at Rosa Mexicano at Lincoln Center Community Board 7 Gregg Carlovich unbelievable prices. Gary Jacob Zeckendorf Development, LLC Hon. Michael R. Bloomberg Glenwood Management Mayor of the City of New York Luis Castro Lydia Kontos Come visit Lincoln Square’s new website Time Warner Hon. Gale A. Brewer Kaufman Center New York City Council at www.lincolnsquarebid.org. The easy Christine Condello Alan Locker Barnes & Noble Hon. John C. Liu to read, fresh design and new navigation Bonafide Estates, Inc. New York City Comptroller David Cvijic gives property owners, businesses, Leo Mavrovitis Millennium Partners Hon. Scott Stringer residents, employees and visitors quick The Emporium, Ltd. Manhattan Borough President Suzanne Davis Michael O’Neal access to the most up-to-date information Residential Property Owner Restaurateur on the neighborhood. New features include Joseph Doolan Residential Tenant (vacant) an interactive neighborhood events’ TD Bank calendar. You’ll also find a new community The Lincoln Square Business Staff: Monica Blum, President; Winter’s Eve Illustration: section with links to “west side” sites. And, Improvement District (BID) Ralph Memoli, Chief of Staff/VP Dave Calver/Morgan Gaynin, Inc.