Gothamist: Time Warner Center Opens

February 5, 2004

Time Warner Center Opens

The possibly the biggest media-real estate event of the year, and certainly the only one to to boast both Governor George Pataki, Sony Chairman Nobuyuki Idei and Showgirl Elizabeth Berkley as guests, was the opening of the Time Warner Center last night. A reported 5,000 guests enjoyed an evening of cocktails, hores d'oeuvres, and Jewel's yodeling in the new $1.7 billion building. The great thing about throwing a party as a media conglomerate is that your talent comes cheap: Paula Zahn (CNN) cohosted with Jon Stewart (The Daily Show), who no longer works for Time Warner but might just wanted to check out the scene. The TW Center is home to 40 stores and 10 restaurants, though the Times questioned whether the TW Center can make "vertical retailing" work. According to Zahn, "This will give the malls on Long Island some competition." Yep, that's exactly the base the TW Center is trying to encroach upon: People who frequent Long Island malls, versus people who shop along Fifth, Madison, or in SoHo.

The Times' Alex Kuczynski gives the local color, calling it an event in a "Federico Fellini-meets-Michael Bloomberg kind of way," which, as Gothamist understands it, means the night involved lots of adulterous men, hookers, clowns, and billionaires turned civil servants. Cool!

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Comments (6)

By pjh

[1] | 02/05/04 09:23AM

yeah right Paula..i live in nyc but i think ill jackasss it out to strong island so i can get that 2 for 1 at the pottery barn....touch yourself paula

By Phil

[2] | 02/05/04 11:36AM

Well, I guess that Paula Zahn and Elizabeth Berkelely pretty much constitute "talent" in the same sense. That ill-thought-out Long Island mall comment is about the deepest piece of "news analysis" I've ever heard her present.

By Coolfer

[3] | 02/05/04 12:13PM

Time Warner opens a new building and doesn't invite The Darkness to play? Or Jet? C'mon, let's liven things up. So they roll out Jewel and her recently straightened teeth? Jewel isn't exactly the flagship artist she once was. Last album: sank like a rock.

By joey

[4] | 02/05/04 12:42PM

Haven't you heard? E-Berk is so hot right now. She's starring in a new Broadway show with Bronson Pinchot. Yes, THAT Bronson Pinchot.

By Mindy

[5] | 02/05/04 06:40PM

I have to say it was a pretty surreal affair. People in ball gowns and black tie dancing it up in a mall. We spotted Wolf Blitzer in the crowd.

By astronga

[6] | 03/29/04 06:33PM

hey does anyone have any pics of the interior of Whole Foods Market? i need some.

thanks