Who Needs the Beach?

This Memorial Day, 5/25 at NOON, Check Out Film & Fun in the newly-reconfigured Times Square

Times Square Alliance hosts first ever full length motion picture event on The Great White Way. Made possible by Turner Classic Movies and Clear Channel Spectacolor. What: FREE public airing of the Oscar winning 1949 film “On the Town” starting Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly. When: Memorial Day, May 25th at NOON. Where: Broadway & 47th Street Why: In celebration of Memorial Day Weekend, the opening of the new “Green Light for Midtown” Pedestrian Plazas and the last day of Fleet Week in NYC.

JUST ADDED: FREE RIBS!!!!

This Memorial Day, join Virgil’s Real Barbecue from Noon until 2pm in front of Times Square Information Center (7th Ave between 46th & 47th St) to enjoy a sampling of Virgil’s Ribs – while supplies last.

The "Original Times Square Barbecue House" Virgil’s Real Barbecue has been serving traditional Southern barbecue and hospitality since 1994.

Details:

On Memorial Day, Monday, May 25, part of Times Square will be converted into one of New York City’s latest pedestrian promenades when Broadway from 42nd Street to 47th Street closes to traffic per Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to ease midtown traffic congestion and make the area better for pedestrians. 

To celebrate the new Times Square, the TIMES SQUARE ALLIANCE will be presenting an afternoon of film and fun. The highlight will be at 12 noon when, in honor of New York’s Fleet Week and the hundreds of servicemen and women on leave in New York, the public can settle down in chairs provided by the Alliance to enjoy a free screening of one of the most popular and quintessentially New York films, “On the Town,” the 1949 MGM musical comedy starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, about a trio of sailors looking for love and laughs while on shore leave in New York City.  The film, made possible by Turner Classic Movies and Clear Channel Spectacolor, will be broadcast on Clear Channel Spectacolor’s “SpectacolorHD” video screen on 47th and Broadway.

First thing in the morning, The Alliance will be setting out beach chairs for the throngs of New Yorkers and tourists alike expected to be on hand to enjoy the City’s newest pedestrian-friendly plaza, and throughout the day there will also be street performers enlivening the new space on Broadway, which will have just been closed to cars as part of Mayor Bloomberg’s “Green Light for Midtown” initiative.

Also in Times Square for Memorial Day Weekend...

Motown in Manhattan

The USO Entertains our Armed Forces

Saturday, May 23, 6pm-9pm

The USO of Metropolitan New York will be honoring sailors and other military during Fleet Week 2009 with a concert for the public and all military that passes through Duffy Square from 6pm - 9pm, featuring motown era legends The Drfiters and The Platters. together with the USO's Liberty Bells.

Did You Know...

The United Services Organizations ("USO") was founded in Times Square, New York in 1941 in response to a request from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to provide morale and recreation services to uniformed military personnel. This request led six civilian agencies -- the Salvation Army, Young Men's Christian Association, Young Women's Christian Association, National Catholic Community Services, National Travelers Aid Association and the National Jewish Welfare Board -- to unite in support of the troops. The USO was incorporated in New York February 4, 1941.