A glass staircase on a traffic island.
What could possibly go wrong?

I was just there at the end of March for the first time. I spent alot of time bumming around and also stood in line at the TKTS booth. I think this is a great idea. There are times when you wouldn't mind sitting down for a minute and not have to buy a coffee or something to do so.

Invader Norbert: Along with Opera Angel's mentioned rides, how can you forget Slap Happy Fun?

/what was the name of the centrifuge ride?
//TTA was awesome
///TTA: How I Spent My Vacation was beyond awesome
////under de ocean, under de ocean, we make big commotion under de ocean

A set of steps whose sole purpose is for people to sit on them? Where I come from we call those bleachers.

What happened to "If it aint broke don't fix it" ???

/Nowhere
//Denied

Let the loitering begin....

In loving memorandum of the real Times Square



RIP 1904-1990

At least this sounds functional, unlike the pole to nowhere that they are about to install at Carnegie Mellon University.

Reference

A stairway to nowhere?

I'd rather be riding on the Escalator of Life.

mobby_6kl: I know, I know, but close enough.

Booo.



At least someone got it. Props to Invader Norbert and Opera Angel. Apologies in advance if I missed anyone.

I'm hoping this will remind the tourists that sidewalks are intended to be functional thoroughfares to allow people who actually have somewhere to go to get there. If you want to stand in one place and stare at tall buildings or watch a sketch artist or something, now we'll have a place set aside for that.

I'm not sure what the design for the new TKTS is, as far as where the people standing on line will be, but I hope that the 1,000 people lounging on the stairway won't be in the way of the hundreds on line at TKTS, and vice versa.

/ This may be the greatest thing to happen to New York since the Metrocard.

It was going to be an escalator to nowhere, but then it broke.

"Sorry for the CONVENIENCE." -Mitch

In loving memorandum of the real Times Square


You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

this sounds kinda neat.

take a memorandum: look up multisyllabic words before posting them.

Its pretty amazing to read so many people get things so wrong on so many levels.

This isnt going to be "New Yorks Spanish Steps", but its still going to be pretty popular, wont waste space, reasources, and work quite well.

first, the Square is a gerat place to people-watch, so this will simply offer a new vantage point. Second, people with cameras will appreciate the ability to get an elevated view of the area. The object is self is pretty much only just the roof of a building.

The steps themselves is little more than the roof of the TKTS booth, so its not like it getting dedicated space that could be going to other use. Believe me, if it was a standard flat roof on this building, nobody would have any comment.

The functioning end of the TKTS booth is on the other end than the steps beign, so no conflict there.

The square it sits in already exist, so how will that effect traffic?

oh, and the "glass" part isnt the steps itself:



/New Yorker
//Architect

dugitman

Based on an award-winning design by Sarah Winchester.

I must be the only one who laughed at this. The Winchester House is the coolest place on Earth.

tothekor "I must be the only one who laughed at this. The Winchester House is the coolest place on Earth."

your not alone.

Just be careful which doors you open. That first step is a doozy!

There must be a bustle in the hedgegrove.

Don't be alarmed, though.

Bravo, LemSkroob.

someone should post the picture of the bridge to no where.

/has never seen it

'round these parts we call them things bleachers.

tothekor: I must be the only one who laughed at this. The Winchester House is the coolest place on Earth.

Nah, I dug it too. Then again, the old Winchester place is in my neighborhood.

I think that it is a bit misleading to call this 'stairs'. I don't go to the Yankees game and sit in the 'stairs', I sit in the bleachers.

Bleachers: "Bleachers is a term used to describe the raised, tiered stands found by sports fields or at other spectator events."

Stairs: "a construction designed to bridge a large vertical distance by dividing it into smaller vertical distances, called steps."

So yes, technically it could qualify in the definition of stairs, but it is very very misleading when you read an article without a picture.

Great. Another Spanish Steps. Just what NY needs: A place for people to loiter, smoke, leave trash and cause problems. Cool.

I love the picture and these steps look like a great idea, but contrary to popular belief we New Yorkers do not have little metal disks attached to our feet.

They're called bleachers dumbass.

Farking tourists.
Real New Yorkers don't need to sit... especially in Times Square.

/Too much bum dung lying around.

Theonceovertwice:

Great. Another Spanish Steps. Just what NY needs: A place for people to loiter, smoke, leave trash and cause problems. Cool.

Ah, the Spanish Steps. By far the biggest waste of time tourist trap in all of Europe.

A town with money is like a mule with a spinning wheel...

Hrm... They must be fresh out of chocolate microscopes.

this thing will be clogged with 100 fat tourists from the midwest sitting in the first row (aka the first steps) leaving all the rest unable to get to- well unless you count the three smelly bums towards the top. that are sleeping in their own urne.

/new yorker

It's bleachers seating, not a stairway.

Astra

"Happy World Land, Happy World Land, where the fun never stops at only 80 bucks a pop in beautiful Happy World Land!"

/"gasp and drool"
//got it early, even if I'm a little lot late.

Cue Tevye
\obscure?
\\good movie
\\\the slashies sigh and wonder why their want ads aren't getting a response.