Jenny Zhang

The year my mom worked as a secretary at an apparel company in midtown, she would often come home in tears because she had mistakenly called her boss by another coworker's name. 'You know how it is,' my father said, 'they all look the same. It's not your mom's fault. There's just no telling them apart. Same high nose and deep-set eyes.

Chinese Actress

Phillipa Soo

During the winter of 2013, we were running 'Comet' up in midtown - as opposed to downtown - and across the street in the Standard, and that was, like, our third time going at it, from Ars Nova to downtown to near Broadway. We weren't on Broadway. We were near Broadway, as we said.

American Actress

Darin Strauss

Surprisingly, Manhattan casts a sort of undersized shadow onto Long Island. Where I grew up, everyone seemed totally disconnected from the city - ours could have been any suburb, anywhere - though when traffic was thin, it took us only half an hour to get into midtown.

American Writer

Jake T. Austin

It's important to have a fallback and other activities that keep you interested. I started acting when I was about nine or 10 years old. My father was a midtown firefighter so I always wanted to be a firefighter, but then acting came along. I have to have a plan B.

American Actor

Savion Glover

When you find real jazz on the radio dial, it comes in all static-y. It's just like tap dancers. You have to go uptown to find the real hoofers. We only come to midtown if we're called upon.

American Dancer

Andrew Rannells

I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.

Dana White

I like to have my Pinkberry. I have this one store in midtown Manhattan that will stay open for me late.

American Businessman

Midtown refers to a bustling part of the city with high pedestrian traffic and active commerce.

Urban Busy Area

Although named 'midtown,' this area is generally not a residential neighborhood, but a commercial hub.

Not Residential

Midtown can imply a landmark area with cultural significance, known for attractions and landmarks.

Cultural Significance

 to be able to pull this off-- were going to be in trench coats, Russian hats. You see that a lot in New York and it's just so nothing, no one's really going to pay attention to anything. If anything, they'll focus on, well it was a guy with a trench coat and a Russian hat, I can't tell you anything else about him. One of the busiest sections of midtown Manhattan,

John Gotti Sr.'s Rise to...

 the beauty of the modern world is you can actually go and inhabit them twenty years ago you would just spend your whole life dreaming about them and I was so happy that you said it was my signature book because it's still my favorite among my books because at that time I was living in midtown Manhattan

Pico Iyer: A Portable...

 largely through some really spectacular office buildings like Lever House in midtown Manhattan, designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Eventually, the technology advanced to the point where architects could design structures so transparent they practically disappear.

Why glass towers are bad...

 How did he reconnect with his family, the people whom he loved and who loved him? So I decided to follow Jimmy, as I followed people like him for so many years before. We met at the Rosa Parks Transit Center in Detroit, this is a bus depot near midtown.

How Radical Hospitality...

 Central Park into the heart of midtown Manhattan with all the lights all the noises all the people and to have Viper continue to walk into the heart of the beast it was really exciting to see that was the highlight of my trip and

Viper the Courageous PIPE...

 and I use those skills not to study animal behavior but to study how people in cities use city public spaces. One of the first spaces that I studied was this little vest pocket park called Paley Park in midtown Manhattan.

Amanda Burden: How...

 These are trees that would stand out in midtown Manhattan. Nobody knows how old the oldest living Coast Redwoods are because nobody has ever drilled into any of them to count their annual growth rings, and, in any case,

Richard Preston:...

 and wonder why nobody is looking at the historical figures just behind them. I'd go to Central Park and see the rolling topography of Central Park come up against the abrupt and sheer topography of midtown Manhattan.

New York -- before the...

 when she made a shocking discovery. Her paper focused on the Citicorp Center, a skyscraper in midtown Manhattan. And after weeks poring over the building’s plans, she’d stumbled on a potentially deadly mistake.

How one design flaw...

 about midtown Manhattan and this is the beautiful view that you see when you're up here I don't think this could be matched anywhere else in the world other than here