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Metro New York Introduces New Real Estate Magazine

The Real Estate Board of New York along with Metro New York has introduced a new glossy magazine to about area real estate.

The quarterly supplement “At Home with Metro” covers real estate, lifestyle, and design in New York.

Every member of the Real Estate Board of New York received a copy of the first issue, as did 12,000 broker’s offices. The magazine was also inserted into Metro New York editions at select locations.

“At Home with Metro offers you a glimpse of the city’s real estate market, and provides readers the tools they will need when buying and renting a new home,” Steven Spinonla, president of the Real Estate Board of New York, said in a statement. “

The magazine is free.

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Taste Of Times Square

If you’re looking for great food and fun, you don’t want to miss the Taste Of Times Square taking place this evening. The food festival begins at 5 PM tonight and takes place at 46th Street between Ninth Avenue and Broadway.

The Taste of Times Square will feature three stages with “local entertainment.” Tickets redeemable for “tastes” and beverages go on sale at 3 PM at the main ticket booth on 46th and Broadway.

The food and music festival will feature eats from chain restaurants like Applebee’s and Hard Rock Cafe as well as other great eateries such as Joe Allen Pizza, Bond 45, Brooklyn Diner, City Lobster and Crab Company and many more.

For more information on this street feast, please visit Times Square NYC.

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Pearl Jam Charity Event At Beacon Theater

Do you enjoy the music of Pearl Jam? Do you enjoy an evening at the Beacon Theater?

Then you don’t want to miss Eddie Vedder and the boys of Pearl Jam when they play a charity show on July 1, 2008. The show will benefit the Robin Hood Foundation which helps to fight poverty in New York.

Tickets for the show went on sale yesterday and cost $100.00 for a minimum donation, giving people access to up to 6 tickets starting at $250.00.

For more information, please visit Robin Hood Org.

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James Taylor - PNC Bank Arts Center

James Taylor will be performing at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey in Friday June 20th at 8:00pm.

James Taylor is a Grammy-award winning artist who has sold millions of records worldwide through his illustrious career. He’s famous for such hits as “You’ve Got a Friend”, and many, many more.

Prices for the concert are as follows:

Lawn General Standing Admission: $20
Terrace: $60.75
Loge and Orchestra: $70.75.

For more information, or to order: Ticketmaster.

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Brooklyn Bridge Celebration

The Brooklyn Bridge has been impressing people for 125 years now, and the famous landmark is hosting a huge celebration there today.

The Brooklyn Bridge first opened for travel on May 24th, 1883.

Brooklyn’s official historian, Ron Schweiger, says we can’t underestimate the bridge.

“It’s an icon for not only New York, but for America,” said Schweiger.

In the mood to walk across the bridge now? You can, via this YouTube video.

Today you can see the unveiling of the Telectroscope if you hurry down to the Brooklyn Bridge.

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Fleet Week New York

Today kicks off Fleet Week in New York. This annual event brings thousands of Marines, National Guard and sailors to the Big Apple and celebrates the work they do at sea.

Fleet Week runs through May 28, 2008. Visitors can enjoy public tours of participating ships at the New York Cruise terminals. There will be a number of displays and demonstrations throughout the week as well as parades and other events.

Featured ships include a Coast Guard Cutter, USS Kearsarge, USS Nitze (DDG 94), USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55), USS The Sullivans (DDG 68), USS Monterey (CG 61) and three Canadian ships.

For more information please visit Fleet Week.

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CitySol

CitySol in New York City is a unique music festival in that it also caters to a green agenda. A number of performers are slated to perform.

The bands join a diverse line-up including Ecstatic Sunshine, No Surrender, Shilpa Ray (ex- Beat the Devil), Burkina Electric, So Percussion, Selan and Blitz the Ambassador, and all will perform at the free event on a 100% solar-powered stage.

Located at Solar One’s East River-side venue in Stuyvesant Cove Park, the festival will run June 26-29 and attempts to “provide a new venue for creative artistic collaborations, while engaging young New Yorkers in an advocacy campaign to bring about stronger policies in support of clean, renewable solar power in New York State.”

Quite the lineup, indeed. For more information: CitySol.

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Gérard Mortier To Head New York City Opera

Gérard Mortier is headed to New York to run the New York City Opera, a move that has caused it’s share of trepidation. Mortier has been known for putting on shows that scandalized patrons before, and the City Opera faces a number of unprecedented challenges.

For his part, Mortier doesn’t see what all the fuss is about.

“It brings me back to the beginning of my career, working in smaller houses,” he said. “I will be 65 this fall, and I didn’t want to run another big international company. I like the house and came very often. I brought singers from City Opera, like Samuel Ramey and Carol Vaness, to Germany. I support the company’s basic precepts. I want to bring change, but not change everything.”

The City Opera will be on the move for over a year until renovation is complete on the New York State Theater.

For more information: NYC Opera

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New York Taxi Drivers Thanked

New York taxi drivers tend to get a bad rap, and many people would say it’s well deserved. But people got to see a side of the New York taxi driver which is rarely mentioned, when a violinist performed for 200 taxi drivers at Newark Liberty International Airport.

“The atmosphere is very interesting, to say the least” Mr Quint told The Times. “Right now, it really feels I am among my friends.”

Mr Quint, 34, promised to give the unusual performance after Mohamed Khalil, a taxi driver, returned the 1723 Antonio Stradivari “ex-Kiesewetter” — on loan from a wealthy philanthropist — when the musician left it behind in his taxi.

The violinist and his girlfriend climbed into the car driven by Mr Khalil at Newark airport shortly after midnight on April 21.

Of course the taxi driver returned the violin, and the rest is history.

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Celebrities Still Making Big New York Real Estate Deals

The word “recession” is bandied about every day, and certainly it applies to lots of people in the United States. But don’t forget there’s a super-rich upper class of people known as “Celebrities”, and the recession is hardly putting a dent in their aspirations. In fact, New York real estate deals involving celebrities are on the rise.

The New York Observer, The New York Post and The New York Daily News have all published recent stories about celebrity real estate transactions in the city, as have real estate Web sites such as Curbed.com and the Real Estalker blog.

Celebrities such as Scarlett Johansson, Carole Burnett, Madonna, and Bono have all been involved in truly massive sales in Manhattan in recent months. The asking prices are high, but the celebs have been getting their money. It seems safe to surmise that the recession isn’t hurting the folks with big money.

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