BY SCOTT GWIN for CinemaBlend Beginning its third week in release Star Wars: The Force Awakens continues to dominate the box office. Most movies with massive openings tend to drop off more quickly than others, but the seventh Star Wars film continues to buck that trend, slipping just 40% each weekend, retaining a death grip on […]

Revelers began celebrating New Year’s Eve in Times Square as early as 1904, but it was in 1907 that the New Year’s Eve Ball made its maiden descent from the flagpole atop One Times Square. Seven versions of the Ball have been designed to signal the New Year. The first New Year’s Eve Ball, made […]

Thursday night there will be millions celebrating New Year’s Eve around the world.   Where are the top ten places across the globe to sing Auld Lan Syne (which, by the way, simply means ‘times gone by”) while ringing in the New Year? National Geographic has listed the top ten celebrations from New York City […]

From The Financial Brand Website These days the piggy bank is taken for granted — it’s a coin bank, shaped like a pig. Kids love them. But where did they really come from? Why do people around the world stuff loose change into small pink pigs? The origin of piggy banks dates back nearly 600 […]

On December 10th, WWBC celebrated its 45th anniversary at the annual Christmas and Holiday Party, held in our 10th floor reception area.  Many current as well as former clients attended as did current and former WWBC team members. Alan Bain, the company’s founder and president, gave some remarks wherein he cited the longevity of the […]

By Sarah Pruitt Christmas shopping for kids has only gotten crazier in the last few decades. Every year, it seems, there’s at least one must-have toy that has shoppers lining up in droves. In the most extreme cases, shortages of the current most-hyped Christmas toy have resulted in mass chaos and even violence. Some of […]

The man we know as Santa Claus has a history all his own. Today, he is thought of mainly as the jolly man in red, but his story stretches all the way back to the 3rd century. Find out more about the history of Santa Claus from his earliest origins to the shopping mall favorite […]

This interview with Aileen Lee, founder and partner of Cowboy Ventures, a venture capital firm, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant.   Q. What were some early influences for you? A. I’m the firstborn child of parents who immigrated here from China. They came from pretty much nothing in terms of financial resources and […]

By Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY So you want to see the biggest movie of the year, Star Wars: The Force Awakens (in theaters Dec. 18), but you somehow managed to go your whole life without watching any other Star Wars movies? Well, come out from under your rock, because we’re here to share 10 extremely basic things you need to know […]

NEW YORK, NY – 432 Park Avenue announced that it has obtained a Temporary Certificate of Occupancy (TCO), enabling the building’s first residents to begin closings on their new homes in the coming weeks.  In addition, the TCO allows for the opening of the project’s new on-site sales and marketing center, which will launch later this […]