"We didn't know beforehand that next year's race was going to cost more, " said 29-year-old Wei Jen Lim, a Midtown West resident who competed Saturday, of the 34% cost increase.

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Ben Benson's Steak House a 30-year-old West Midtown staple for finance moguls, athletes and other high-rollers is closing next month.

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Extell Development Co. earlier this month filed plans with the city for a 600-unit rental building at West 41st Street and 10th Avenue, betting on the burgeoning residential area west of Midtown Manhattan.

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According to FDNY reports, high winds are already responsible for damaging a high-rise construction crane on West 57th Street in midtown Manhattan.

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Let us explain: Apparently some regions in the South and West aren't as wired as midtown Manhattan, so a company called Space Data found a way to make money by repeatedly launching weather balloons with cellular transmitters called SkySites, and charging what must be astronomical fees for getting your cell-on in the boonies.

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The extension would improve access from the suburbs through Midtown, the yet-to-be-built Hudson Yards development on the West Side and along the existing No. 7 train corridor into Queens.

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Jo Sensini, from Chiswick, west London, was on the 26th floor of the New Yorker Hotel in midtown Manhattan with her two sons and a friend during the storm.

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In 1982 rezoning to move development west to Times Square worked all too well, significantly tamping down growth in Midtown East, now at a pitiable 0.06% over the past decade.

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