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Reply The most striking element of the plan is the glassy, 750-to-900-foot tower that would be built atop Macy's recognizable 19-story department store building that dates to 1902. (FXCollaborative) MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — After more than a century in Herald Square, Macy's has unveiled a proposal to transform the area surrounding its flagship store through a new office tower, pedestrian plaza and subway station improvements. The most striking element of the plan, which was released Monday, is the glassy tower that would be built atop Macy's recognizable 19-story department store building th...

Nurse set to start new job decides against it after being victim of random punch     NEW YORK (WCBS) — A Missouri nurse who just moved to New York City for a new job says she was assaulted by a stranger near Penn Station. The incident sent her packing for home. Taylor Dowling arrived from St. Louis two days ago ready to start her dream of living in the Big Apple. The 25-year-old and her parents were walking back to their hotel from dinner at around 7 p.m. on Wednesday when Dowling says she was randomly punched in the head near 34th Street and Ninth Avenue. She told CBS2’s Natalie Dud...

PICTURED: Man 'who hit an NYPD detective with a stick' while he probed robbery appears in court and is ordered to have a psych evaluation as crime spirals in NYC Akeele Morgan, 25, appeared in Queens Criminal Court for an arraignment relating to a brazen daytime attack on Monday in which he allegedly hit an NYPD detective over the head with a stick However, the arraignment was delayed when Morgan failed to cooperate with the court on Tuesday  When Morgan finally did appear to agree to talk to his lawyer, he said he would only talk directly to the judge When Morgan appeared before the judge,...

Manhattan: Dan Biederman’s column misses the mark on what has been wrong and missing at Penn Station (“Keep up momentum to fix Penn Station and its environs,” April 9). What is wrong is that we are still living with the decision made in the late 1950s to raze the original Penn Station and its triumphant public spaces and to later replace them with a subterranean transit hub in the basement of Madison Square Garden and 2 Penn Plaza.

eye on the news Midtown’s Miracle on Ice In Bryant Park, the Bank of America Winter Village was a bright spot of a bleak season. New York Arts and Culture Our long, dark winter is over. So is the Bank of America Winter Village, which shut down in March, with construction crews dismantling the skating rink and the assortment of food, drink, and retail stalls in Bryant Park. In the context of New York’s massive losses over the past year—31,853 people dead from Covid-19, 626,800 jobs still gone—the success of a modest place to skate, eat, and shop may seem negligible. Bu...