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The article offers information on the peak period of autumn in New York and events held at the Madison Square Park in 2012 such as the performances of 30 jazz combos on November 10 and the union Square Greenmarket that was temporarily relocated to Fifth Avenue at 24th street due to hurricane Sandy.

A federal appeals court ruling has affirmed a lower court decision rejecting the claims of two protesters who were arrested when they refused to leave a no-demonstration zone opposite Madison Square Garden during the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. Calling the challenge of providing security for the crowded area around the Garden ''altogether extraordinary,'' the court said the city had not violated the First Amendment when it restricted the protesters to a demonstration zone on Eighth Avenue. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Over the last decade, as the contemporary art world has grown to planetary size -- more galleries, more fairs, more art-selling Web sites, bigger museums, new biennials almost by the month -- it has sometimes seemed as if a new kind of cultural figure has been born as well: the international curator, constantly in flight to somewhere. The phenomenon is not wholly new. Roaming European curators like Harald Szeemann and Germano Celant set the terms in the 1960s. But the art world's transformation has transformed the curatorial field, and this week you needed go no further than a few places in Manhattan to sample its increasingly global sweep. One afternoon in a meeting room near Madison Square Park a young Australian curator who specializes in aboriginal art was sitting next to a Yale-trained painter-art-professor-curator from Tennessee, who sat across a table from fellow curators from London, Beijing, Mexico City, Madrid (by way of Brazil) and Berlin (though working in Albania). In previous months curators from 20 other countries, many of them far from contemporary art's beaten paths -- Sri Lanka, Latvia, Nigeria, Bulgaria -- had been in the city for the same reason. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I went in wanting to be an I-beam. I settled for being a brick in the foundation, way down at the base: solid, sturdy, dependable. And oblivious to what was going on above me, which was a ''human tower'' seven levels high, being assembled on a rooftop near Madison Square Park, with two people on each level, standing on the shoulders of the people below. I fretted: Would it lean like the famous one in Pisa? Would it fall to the ground like the 13th-century tower clock in Finale Emilia, Italy, that was done in a few weeks ago by earthquakes and aftershocks? (No, and no.) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Dear Diary: Not long ago, I got off the express bus at Madison Square Park with a friend to attend a business dinner at a smart restaurant nearby. A young man holding an instrument case rushed over to my friend and asked if he would sell the black shirt that he was wearing. The young man explained that he desperately needed the shirt: he was late to play a gig and had no luck finding a black shirt at nearby stores. My friend could name his price and he would gladly pay it. After a moment's hesitation, my friend took off his sport jacket, removed his shirt and handed it over, saying, ''Fifty dollars!'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CHICAGO -- In 2009 the multimedia artist Jessica Stockholder used brightly colored plywood platforms and metal bleachers to turn a section of Madison Square Park in New York into a kind of abstract painting, ''Flooded Chambers Maid.'' Children instantly appropriated it as a playground, and adults used it as an informal seating area. This week her latest work, ''Color Jam,'' begins a summer-long occupation of an intersection in the Loop in downtown Chicago. By wrapping the four corners of State and Adams Streets (and parts of buildings there) in swaths of burnt orange, lime green and turquoise -- think of Christo meets Hans Hofmann -- she deconstructs this slice of the business-as-usual world and transforms it into a playful and imaginative realm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Madison Square Park, between Fifth and Madison Avenues at 23rd Street, held its children's fair on May 19 with music, games, popcorn and cotton candy. The children, in their summery hats, resembled butterflies. They were the ideal foil for the thatched-roof children's playhouse surrounded by flowers seen later in the day at a benefit for grown-ups at Old Westbury Gardens, the former estate of the Phipps family on Long Island. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

STAND in the bright green expanse of Madison Square Park with a Shake Shack burger in your hand, and you will see three early 20th-century skyscrapers that speak of the square's longtime commercial identity: the Flatiron Building, the Metropolitan Life Tower, and the gold-crowned New York Life Building. Indeed, the square has had a commercial flavor for so much of its existence that it is easy to forget its earlier, if ephemeral, incarnation as the social center of fashionable New York. In the Civil War era, elegant brownstones adorned the north, east and south edges of the square, and a lavish mansard-roofed mansion built by Winston Churchill's grandfather stood across Madison Avenue from the park's northeastern corner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spring's blossoms have reached a peak with the wisteria. At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the pergolas of Japanese wisteria, some 30 inches in length, range from deep mauve to nearly white. On some, the tiny blossoms look like roses; others have the more typical pod shape. There are four topiaries around the Worth Monument near Madison Square Park. Wisteria also can be found at Rockefeller Center and a community garden on the West Side. The cascading blossoms remind me of what I saw in Paris last month: the elongated look of women in stripes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

IT was sometime in the mid-1980s, Carol Peligian recalls, that she told her broker not to telephone her until she'd found her an apartment among the run-down, sparsely populated commercial blocks of Fifth Avenue between 14th and 23rd Streets. The broker's response was succinct: ''You're out of your mind.'' Ms. Peligian's husband, Robert Boghosian, was scarcely more enthusiastic. But Ms. Peligian, an artist, recognized New York as a great shape-shifting organism; she felt that the decidedly unglamorous area below Madison Square Park might have a future to match its richly textured past. At the time, that stretch of Fifth Avenue was ''like a canyon: it was abandoned, it was vast and boarded up,'' she said. ''But it had a faded old beauty just waiting to be cared for a little bit.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ON one of the few nights this winter when the temperature sagged below freezing, the host at La Mar Cebicheria Peruana led my party to an upstairs table without offering to take our coats. This was a surprise, because the coat check had been in full swing on a warmer night weeks earlier. In September, Gaston Acurio, the prodigious restaurateur and chef from Peru, opened this eighth branch of his expanding ceviche chain on Madison Square Park where Tabla once held court. The designer Stephanie Goto, hired to redo the two-story space, cast off its warm subcontinental palette in favor of a shimmery, tropical cool. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DEAR DIARY: The salesperson at the Urban Angler store suggested I take a fly rod across the street to Madison Square Park to make a few test casts before making my purchase. After several casts across the grass, I was approached by a uniformed park official. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE 2012 professional bull-riding season began on Jan. 6 at Madison Square Garden in a Cheyenne-meets-Seventh Avenue display of five rounds, 40 riders and 80,000 pounds of bucking livestock. From Friday night, when the world's top riders came out of the chutes, to Sunday afternoon, when Cody Nance of Paris, Tenn., took first place on Sticker Shock, the dirt-flinging, cowboy-tossing spectacle -- born, it is said, in 16th-century Mexico -- lived up to its trademarked name as the Toughest Sport on Earth. For those unfamiliar with such things, the Professional Bull Riders -- also known as P.B.R. -- have been around since 1992 and, each year since, have held events at locations around the country, from Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Tex., to the Pit in Albuquerque, N.M. It was the sixth straight year that the league kicked off its season in Manhattan, and this year's celebration included New York touches: there were business deals announced with Lucas Oil and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, interviews with VH1 and Telemundo, and a ringing of the closing bell on Wall Street. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Madison Square Presbyterian Church was one of New York's shortest-lived houses of worship. Designed by Stanford White, this Palladian building opened on 24th Street in 1906 and was razed in 1919 to make way for insurance offices. Architects and preservationists mourned its demise and descended on the wreckage for souvenirs. Chunks of the building ended up widely scattered. Susan Tunick, an architectural historian who runs the Friends of Terra Cotta in New York, has just finished tracking them down. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CORRECTION APPENDED Brooks Brothers returned this month to Broadway in the East 20s, near Madison Square Park, after 96 years away. Don't go back looking for butlers' livery with buttons bearing your family crest, however. The new 7,200-square-foot Brooks Brothers Flatiron Shop is intended more for the collegiate set than the carriage trade. In the casually chockablock showroom at 901 Broadway, on the corner of East 20th Street, sack suits are paired with ski vests and Harris tweed jackets are shown next to blue jeans or sweat pants. The store occupies part of what was Lord & Taylor's flagship long ago. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

$37/SQUARE FOOT $27,750 approximate annual rent [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE unshaven guy working the mini-cannoli booth in Madison Square Park glanced from side to side, making sure the vendors next door were busy with their samosas and shaved ice. Stuart Dahan was ready to talk about cannoli 3.0. His daughter, Brielle, and her fiance, Anthony Fontana, already make three-inch-long mini cannoli, hand-rolled with flavors like cake batter and Kahlua. But in New York's competitive treats market, they may be just too big. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

OPENINGS The first United States flagship for MARIMEKKO, the 60-year-old Finnish brand famous for its Pop Art-like textile designs, officially opens this weekend at 200 Fifth Avenue, (212) 843-9121; us.marimekko.com. Like its next-door neighbor, Eataly, Marimekko has taken over a vast space and carries something for everyone: home decor, dishware, fabric yardage, personal accessories and clothing for men, women and children. On Saturday, a fleet of Marimekko artists from Helsinki will gather in Madison Square Park from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. to help you create your own free key chains or necklaces out of brightly colored fabric remnants. ... The cheeky cosmetics line BENEFIT opened its first New York boutique last week at 454 Broadway in SoHo, (212) 769-1111; benefitcosmetics.com. In addition to its complete range of irreverently named makeup products, the pink, white and black 2,000-square-foot space is equipped for eyebrow shaping, body waxing and airbrush tanning in its Pretty Rooms (no appointments necessary). But the biggest thrill for die-hard Benefit devotees is bound to be the original bottle of 1977 Benetint, the best-selling lip and check stain, displayed with all the reverence of an '82 Lafite. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anybody who attends the Metropolitan Opera or Fashion Week or shops at Eataly, the new temple of pasta and prosciutto near Madison Square, may think that all due respect is being paid to Italians and their contributions. But he or she has not met Joseph J. Grano Jr. When Mr. Grano, a proud third-generation Italian-American, looks around the city, he sees his countrymen getting short shrift. But he has cooked up a $25 million solution: a museum devoted to Italian heritage that would be the main attraction on a 124-year-old Victorian pier under renovation in Lower Manhattan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

You don't often get a chance to put a puck past the Bruins' Tim Thomas, the best goalie in the N.H.L. this season. When the rare opportunity arises, you'd better convert. The Rangers had their chances Wednesday at Madison Square Garden, but they scored only twice, falling, 3-2, to end their three-game winning streak. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Flatiron district, home of its namesake skyscraper and the jewel-like green space known as Madison Square Park, is a place of endless reinvention. Later this year, for example, Mario Batali's Eataly, an emporium of gourmet restaurants and food markets, is scheduled to open at 200 Fifth Avenue, and the owner of the iconic Flatiron Building plans to convert it into a luxury hotel. For a close look at this always-morphing area, take the N, R or W line to the 23rd Street subway stop. And come hungry. In another of its incarnations, the district is a restaurant destination. NOON The Flatiron Building, 175 Fifth Avenue, is just steps away from the 23rd Street station. Once known as the Fuller Building, after the family that built it, the Flatiron, which opened in 1902, is one of the city's first skyscrapers. But it has another notable trait: The building sits apart from others, enabling viewers to see it all by itself. ''It's the only skyscraper where you can take a picture, from streetscape to skyscape, with no interruptions,'' said Miriam Berman, author of ''Madison Square: The Park and Its Celebrated Landmarks.'' Admire it in its unique, splendid isolation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

NEW YORK An article in some copies last Saturday reported that Jeff Ragsdale, a 32-year-old computer consultant, had tried to make up with his girlfriend, Megan Brady, by wearing a sandwich board in Madison Square Park that apologized for being ''verbally abusive.'' Subsequently, questions were raised about whether this public lovers' quarrel had been staged. A closer look at whether it was a hoax can be found at nytimes.com/cityroom, which first reported the account. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BY day it's the Canal Street of Midtown, a blurry tumble of frantic shop fronts in an epic half-mile panorama, Perfume-Hairpieces-Jewelry-Sweatshirts-Sunglasses. But by night the stretch of Broadway from 26th to 31st Street, between the Shake Shack and Herald Square, gives a foretaste of what promises to be a hip new hotel center. This section of Broadway got its big break in the 1870s, as a new entertainment district coalesced north of Madison Square, bringing hotels and restaurants. The marble-fronted Grand Hotel, at the southeast corner of 31st Street, opened in 1868, followed in 1871 by the gangly 300-room Gilsey Hotel, at the northeast corner of 29th. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the sports event which includes, the National Hockey League (NHL) Winter Classic at Fenway Park and stage sports at the Madison Square Garden in New York City. The author mentions that in Fenway Park there is no track and field while the Garden has the Millrose Games. He claims that the Madison Square Garden is considered as one of the greatest throughout the world.

The article reports on the debate of few media members at the Madison Square Garden, New York concerning the viability on the signing of Allen Iverson in the basketball team New York Knicks. It says that the debate happened after its was announced that Iverson and the Memphis Grizzlies had agreed to part ways. On the other hand, the basketball team was ranked ninth in the 30-team league in scoring at 101.4 points per game.

The article offers information on the annual "Battle of the Badges" which will be held on October 9, 2009 at Madison Square Garden's Wamy Theater in New York City, New York (NY). The boxing competition will be participated by the members of the New York City Police Department and the fire fighters of the NY City Fire Department. The honorary coaches for the event will be Mark Breland, the former world welterweight champion.

Coins in the Fountains Q.I was walking past a fountain in Madison Square Park the other day. The water was off, the fountain was dry as a bone, and a parks department worker (I hope) was inside the fountain vacuuming up the coins. Where do all the coins go? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Josh Cochran, an illustrator from Brooklyn, working on a mural at an HSBC branch near Madison Square Park on Thursday. The bank's employees collected ''value words'' from passers-by, and Mr. Cochran's job was to incorporate those contributions into his artwork on a window at the branch. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Tommy did not go pee-pee at Julia's office. He didn't have to go then and he didn't have to go at 11:30 a.m. on a recent Thursday, when a woman called Mommy asked him. Tommy romped around on a manicured trapezoid of grass in Madison Square Park, across from the Metropolitan Life Building. He whipped his blond head and yardstick-height body into somersaults and handstands, he jumped and rolled and skipped. He did not have to go to the bathroom. I was sitting outside the green expanse, on a bench, with a container of unwashed blueberries. The man next to me was reciting Hamlet, to no one in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IT was a brilliant spring morning in Madison Square Park, and the uptown end of the central lawn was already crowded with children playing on a multicolored triangular platform that looked as though it had been made from giant Lego blocks. The children clambered up and down, tossing balls, yelling gleefully and digging in a square of blue rubber mulch that lay on the ground beneath this structure. Their mothers and baby sitters lounged alongside them, sitting on the platform or watching from a set of adjoining turquoise bleachers. At first glance this assemblage might have been mistaken for a particularly inventive playground. But it was actually a piece by the artist Jessica Stockholder, who was watching from the sidelines with Debbie Landau, the president of the Madison Square Park Conservancy, which commissioned the work. Both of them laughed in amazement at the unfolding spectacle. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The action was expected to focus on Rangers forward Sean Avery and Devils goalie Martin Brodeur, who were meeting for the first time since last spring's playoffs, when Avery called Brodeur ''Fatso.'' But for the Rangers, the match was a team effort as they coasted to a 3-0 victory over the struggling Devils on Monday night at Madison Square Garden. The win boosted the Rangers' precarious playoff chances. They have 89 points, 3 more than eighth-place Montreal and 4 more than Florida. They trail sixth-place Pittsburgh by a point. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE signposts of Madison Square as it appeared in the mid-'60s are fewer and fewer. The luster has been restored to the Flatiron Building. A gleaming apartment tower is climbing to the sky at Madison and 23rd Street. On the east side of Broadway, at 23rd Street, a high-rise condominium has replaced an entire blockfront of low buildings. But a vestige of that era remains affixed to the facade of the condominium on Broadway, a plaque that stands as a haunting reminder of a tragic event. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ON any given day in Madison Square Park, New Yorkers seem more willing to wait on line for a single Shake Shack burger than they might at the Louvre for a glimpse of the ''Mona Lisa.'' After four years of attracting devotees who stand on hourlong lines at its 20-by-20-foot stand, Shake Shack, Danny Meyer's burger and milkshake joint, plans to open a larger indoor restaurant in mid-October on Columbus Avenue and West 77th Street. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

''ARE you with a child?'' This is not a question concertgoers often hear. But at Madison Square Park on Thursday, it was the price of admission for a show by Trout Fishing in America, a folksy duo from Arkansas who are best known for the music they play for children. The concerts are part of the Tuesday and Thursday lineup of events at the park during the summer, thanks to the Madison Square Park Conservancy, perfectly timed to take place before the day gets too hot and the lines at the Shake Shack get too long. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It was an idyllic Wednesday evening in Madison Square Park -- still air, verdant grass, a relaxed crowd, with barefoot children milling about -- when Cia Leigh Cherryholmes got to singing about war and God. Taking on the persona of a mother who has sent her son off to fight, she aimed ''This Is My Son'' at the heavens -- ''You gave us yours/And I gave them mine'' -- before bemoaning ''People who don't/Care that they're free/at the cost of his life.'' While she sang the crowd was hushed, in what appeared to be a mix of reverence and shock. For the previous hour of their free show, the nine-year-old family bluegrass band Cherryholmes -- Jere and Sandy Cherryholmes; their daughters, Cia Leigh and Molly Kate; and their sons, B. J. and Skip -- had been neither political nor particularly religion minded (save for a thrilling a cappella variation on the spiritual ''Mary Don't You Weep''). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MADISON SQUARE PARK CO-OP $775,000 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The al fresco dining season has begun, and sidewalk cafes, patios and gardens are opening up all over the city, including these in or near Madison Square Park. A VOCE [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents information on a series of public art programs scheduled for next year at the Madison Square Park in New York City. There will be art in the park year round starting next year including installations by four foreign artists. The works of Stuttgart Internet artists Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied will be displayed from March 20 through April 27, 2008. Seven new works of British sculptor Richard Deacon will be on view from May 1 through August 31, 2008.

The article offers information on the video installation "Around the Park," by William Wegman in the Madison Square Park in New York City. The video will be shown simultaneously on four outdoor television monitors. It features two Weimaraners named Penny and Bobbin, which have been dressed like people. Wegman has shown how people spent time in the park by reading, interacting, eating and driving.

The article reports about the installation of the first pay toilet in Madison Square Park in New York City. The toilet is the first of 20 long-awaited pay toilets, to be installed by a Spanish company, Cemusa Inc., under a project of the Department of Transportation in the City. Kerry Gould, of the Department informs that nine more pay toilets will be in use by the end of 2007. Cemusa has agreed to pay the city about $1.4bn over 20 years. It expects to recover it from selling advertisements.

The article focuses on sculptor Ursula Von Rydingsvard. The early years of Ursula have been spent in refugee camps as her parents were forced to go back to Poland during World War II. She excels in carving wooden sculptures in several attractive forms. Ursula also uses graphite powder in her sculptures to give them a burnt look. An exhibition of four of her sculptures titled "Mad. Sq. Art: Ursula von Rydingsvard," is being held at Madison Square Park, New York City.

The article presents information on the restaurant 230 Fifth located in Madison Square Park in New York City.

Reports on the installation of the new Sol LeWitt in Madison Square Park in New York City.

Presents a question and answer advisory regarding the origin on the statues of Roskoe Conkling and Chester A. Arthur in Madison Square Park, New York City.

Three years after the restoration by real estate specialists, the largest block of high-quality office space currently available in Madison Square Park, New York City is about to come to market officially. Cushman & Wakefield Inc., a brokerage an services company has begun quietly marketing the 51 Madison Avenue space. While the prospects of New York's overall office market remains subdued, Paul Glickman and A. Mitti Liebersohn, the two leasing agents for the 51 Madison Avenue property, say they expect the space to attract Midtown companies that like the Madison Square Park area but have been unable to move there because of a shortage of large blocks of amenity-laden space.

Reports that hockey teams of New York City's Police and Fire Departments squared off for the annual event at Madison Square Garden.

Focuses on Madison Square and city planning in New York City in summer 2001. Redesigning of the district boundaries by the Landmarks Preservation Commission; Efforts of city planners to accommodate the push for more residential development without upsetting the existing commercial and industrial base; Details of projects in the area of Madison Square Park.

Reports that the Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated the Madison Square North Historic District in New York City.

Editorial. Commends the revival or restoration of the Madison Square Park in New York City.