Madison Square Park, Mel Kendrick’s Markers, and The Flatiron Building

Today’s the coldest day yet this winter in NYC.

After you finish your meeting at your very toasty New York Virtual Office, head over to Madison Square Park. It’s cold and the trees are bare, but the Park is stunning in every season.

Here are a few pictures, taken today, in the Park:

Madison Square Park, Mel Kendrick’s Markers, and The Flatiron Building

Mel Kendrick’s Markers in the Park, facing North West

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A&E’s hit show Paranormal State is ending their 11 city Paranormal State Tour right here in Madison Square Park, today.

They’re there till 5pm – so you still have some time to stop by, get your free Scream ringtone, meet the investigators, have your picture taken and share your experiences.

You can have your picture taken against a green screen and they’ll stick in a spooky ghost.

You can also share any paranormal experiences that you’ve had on video to appear on the ParanormalStateTour.com

A few more pictures – of the tour – on the coldest day in New York yet this winter at 30°F (feels Like 16°F):

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Have you fallen in love with the South of France? Are you looking forward to relocating there?

The question is, how can you maintain a presence in the United States? You’ve already sold your home in the US and are in the process of moving yourself and your family overseas. So now, how can you live abroad and still keep a safe and secure presence in the US to receive your account statements, mail from family and friends, checks?

A virtual office business address rental just may be the solution for you!

Virtual offices are not just for businesses! We, at VH International Business Solutions, Inc., can provide you with a safe and secure way to receive and forward your personal mail – anywhere in the world!

Enjoy starting your expat life in the South of France! We’ll take care of your US presence!

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As the year draws to an end and a new year approaches, it’s for most, a time to reflect on the past and a time to contemplate and focus on goals for the future. A New Year’s resolution for many involves starting a new business.

This is where VH International Business Solutions’ NYC virtual office solution can help.

One of the first things you should consider is a virtual office before embarking on the costly route of renting your own full-time office. Virtual offices help establish and maintain a professional image while slashing overhead costs of renting a tradition physical office.

Why rent the office when you can simply rent the office address?

Need to meet with clients, associates or vendors at your NYC virtual office? No problem! A full-service virtual office isn’t necessarily all virtual. The only virtual thing about a full-service virtual office is that you don’t need to be physically there on a daily basis. We are fully staffed, and have meeting facilities available for your use on an as-needed-basis. Simply book time by the hour when you need it – that’s it.

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Technology is evolving by leaps and bounds, and there are no limits to what one could do with it. Today, you can choose to work from your home office and still have a physical office in New York. Sounds impossible? It isn’t, and even available to you at a very affordable cost.

We’re not just talking about a wall lined with mailboxes, a counter person and basic voicemail services either; It’s more than just a mailbox service.

VH International Business Solutions offers a premium office equipped with the latest in staffed executive office and virtual office services including meeting room space, private office, mail handling and forwarding, and phone and fax business telecommunications services, all managed by trained professionals and high tech software. It’s possible for you to be working from anywhere in the world and still have a full serviced NYC office address for your business.

Virtual offices are not only good news for home based entrepreneurs, but very beneficial for businesses and companies looking to cut-back on their high office costs. Companies can save on not only excessive overhead costs such as rent and related utilities, but there’s no such thing as having to deal with sick leaves, paid vacations etc. Companies will enjoy all the benefits of having a standard office such as reception, guest waiting areas and private conference rooms – a complete office without the costs.

All it takes is about a business day to establish your own New York office and begin client meetings the following day. You can have all the benefits of having a real office without any overhead worries.

You also have the perks of going international by establishing a virtual office in a major cosmopolitan city such as New York City; your correspondence is mailed to your virtual office and, no matter where you’re located, your mail is forwarded to you upon request or pre-established schedule.

You can also have a professional receptionist answer your business calls, in your company name and email you your messages, or, establish your own 212 phone number and have incoming calls transferred directly to your own number, wherever you are. You also have the flexibility of receiving your 212 faxes right into your email inbox.

Virtual offices are here to stay, becoming the office of the future, and thanks to VH International Business Solutions, they are much more cost effective and better than renting a place. Additionally, the right virtual office can not only be beneficial for your company but can also bring about a more professional aura to your home-based business. So if you are thinking of having an office in New York, surely consider New York’s premier virtual office provider with over 20 years experience – VH International Business Solutions.

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The Adjustment Bureau, directed by George Nolfi, has been in the neighborhood often lately filming in Madison Square Park.

The movie, currently in production with a scheduled 2010 release, stars Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, John Slattery, Terence Stamp, and Daniel Dae Kim.

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In October, scenes for “The Other Guys” were filmed all throughout the neighborhood.

The movie, directed by Adam McKay, is scheduled for release in August of 2010. The movie stars Dwayne Johnson, aka “The Rock”, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Wahlberg, Will Ferrell, Eva Mendes, Michael Keaton, Ray Stevenson, Damon Wayans Jr., Craig Robinson, and Rob Riggle to name a few.

Here’s a video shot from Worth Square showing Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson jumping off of 1123 Broadway.

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Madison Square Park Conservancy is now listed on Facebook’s Chase Community Giving Application !

Support Madison Square Park as one of your favorite non-profit organizations by following the link below. It only takes a minute, and your vote will bring Madison Square Park one step closer to receiving funding from Chase! Round 1 closes on December 11, so vote today!

http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/

And remember, spread the word to your Facebook friends by using the application’s share functions!

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The tree, a 24 foot Fraser Fir, is here and ready for the lighting tonight:

Photo: Mad. Sq. E-News #165

A 97 year old tradition continues tonight, on Tuesday, Dec. 8, when the Madison Square Park Conservancy’s annual tree lighting ceremony takes place in Madison Square Park. Once again, the Flatiron Partnership is one of the co-sponsors.

The Mad. Sq. Holiday program will get under way at 4:30 p.m. at the park’s Northern Plaza, with seasonal music provided by the New York Life Singers and by AudraRox, a rock band for children. Both groups have performed at the lighting in previous years.

On Christmas Eve in 1912, Madison Square Park was the scene of the first such event. It was the earliest community tree lighting in New York City, and one of the first in the nation. Some 10,000 onlookers were there, standing on freshly fallen snow, according to The New York Times, and thousands more came by for a musical show that entertained the celebrants until midnight. A 63-foot conifer, called the Tree of Light, was adorned by more than a thousand red, green, blue and white bulbs and topped by a glowing Star of Bethlehem. That occasion is today commemorated by the Star of Hope monument at the southern end of the park.

Source: December Flatiron Newsletter

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Statue of Antonio Stradivari in Cremona, Italy

Every Monday at 12:30pm, WMP Concert Hall offers a 45 minute long chamber music concert to the public, and it is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The idea of the concert series is to offer high quality music to their neighbors while they take their lunch break.

Monday, December 14 at 12:30pm
Cellist Sarina Zhang with Pianist Alexandra Joan

On Monday, December 14th at 12:30pm, cellist Sarina Zhang will perform a program featuring works by Debussy, Kodaly and Tchaikovsky with pianist Alexandra Joan.

At the age of 13, Sarina Zhang has accumulated a mantel full of top awards as both pianist and cellist. Most recently, she has won the Juilliard Pre-College Dvorak Cello Concerto Competition and been named a 2009 Davidson Fellow by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development. In April 2009, Sarina won the New York Ensemble 212 Young Artist Competition. In 2008, she was awarded the 1st place in Connecticut International Young Artist Competition for piano and the 2nd place for cello, and the special prize in the New York Grand Prix International Piano Competition. In 2007, Sarina captured the 3rd place in Virginia Waring International Piano Concerto Competition, the 1st prize in MTAC California Piano Solo Competition, and the 1st place in Los Angeles Violoncello Society Scholarship Competition. Some of her other past awards include winning 2005 International Russian Piano Music Competition (young musician category), 1st place in both piano and cello in 2005 Goodlin Scholarship competition, 2006 ASTA State (CA) Solo Competition for cello, and 2006 San Diego Symphony’s Young Artists Competition.

At age 8, Sarina was featured on the national radio program “From the Top” as a pianist, and featured again 3 years later as a cellist. She was featured on PBS’ “From the Top, Live from Carnegie Hall” TV series in 2007. From 2004 to 2007, Sarina was the youngest member and assistant principal cellist in the San Diego Civic Youth Orchestra Symphony and in July 2006, she went on an orchestra tour to stockholm, sweden, helsinki, Finland, St. Petersburg and Moscow. Sarina has collaborated with San Diego Symphony, New City Symphony, the Northridge Symphony Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Esemble 212, In April of 2009, she played the Beethoven’s No.1 piano concerto with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Civic Orchestra under the baton of Leonard Slatkin, and returned again in Sept to play two works on two different instruments-Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Tchaikovoky’s “Rococo Variations” with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Highlights of her past performances include an appearance in the prelude to a Discovery concert for La Jolla Music Society, a recital in Athenaeum Music and Arts Library’s Mini-Concert at Lyceum Theatre in San Diego, California International Chinese Music Festival, Juilliard Pre-College recital, and multiple appearances in the Aspen Music Festival’s Spotlight recitals in the past two seasons.

In her coming seasons, Sarina will be making debuts as both pianist and cellist with the Corpus Christi Symphony and the California Symphony. She will also give solo recital in Middle keys 2010 Concert series in Florida. Sarina is currently enrolled in the pre-college division at Juilliard School studying piano with Yoheved Kaplinsky, cello with Richard Aaron, and composition with Manuel Sosa. Her formal teachers include Titiana Stignev, Vladimir Viardo, Zitta Zohar, Lu-yan Guo and Darrett Adkins. Sarina has performed in master classes for Natalie Gutman, Vladimir Feltsman, Hans Boepple, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Ralph Sloan.

French-Romanian pianist Alexandra Joan is an active soloist and avid chamber music musician. A regular performer in Europe, she has appeared in Germany, Switzerland, France and also in Israel and Montenegro. She made her chamber music debut in New York in 2007 at Alice Tully Hall, and most recently made her Carnegie Hall solo debut presented by the Lagesse Foundation. She also performed at David Dubal’s lecture series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.

Along with the masterpieces of the 18th, 19th and 20th century, Alexandra Joan performs new music frequently and is also an advocate of the music of George Enesco. Ms. Joan’s appearances in international Festivals have included Roque d’Antheron International Piano Festival in France, Guebwiller, Colmar International Festival (Vladimir Spivakov), Oberstdorf Festival in Germany and other prestigious festivals and concert series in France. Ms. Joan has performed as soloist with “La Follia” Chamber Orchestra, The Montbeliard Orchestra, The Mulhouse Symphony Orchestra in France and The Orchestra of Radio and Television in Montenegro. Her solo and chamber music performances have been featured on Radio France, Radio Suisse Romande (Switzerland), on Montenegro Television and WQXR in New York.

Ms. Joan has been a recipient of several important awards in France. She has received the “Vocation Prize” from the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation in 2005 and the ADAMI Grant in 2006 and 2007 to study in the United States. In 2001, she won the 3d Prize at the Andorra International Piano Competition. Born in 1984, Ms. Joan began her studies at the Colmar Conservatory with Rena Shereshevskaya and gave her first public performance at the age of six.
In 2004 she completed her Bachelor of Music Degree at the Paris Conservatory under the tutelage of Brigitte Engerer. She worked with artists such as Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Itamar Golan, Vladimir Krainev, Vera Gornastaeva, Staffan Scheja, Pnina Salzman and Emanuel Krasovsky. A recipient of the Florence Gould Scholarship. Alexandra Joan recently graduated from the Juilliard School of Music where she completed her Graduate Diploma as a student of Jerome Lowenthal’s.

WMP Concert Hall is located at 31-33 East 28th Street, between Park and Madison. No food or beverages are permitted in the concert hall.

Future Shows:

Monday, December 21st @ 12:30pm:
Violinists Paolo Alberghini and Bruno Peña, Violist Kristin Sawyer, Cellist Sokol Nikaj and Pianist Enika Gjokoreci

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