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What do tourists like more than walking slowly in bunches, visiting Ground Zero, buying fake handbags in Chinatown, and wearing socks with sandals? Eating at restaurants they can find at home! The Post is reporting that IHOP (aka the International House of Pancakes) is in talks with Vornado to open a location at 1540 Broadway (btwn 45th and 46th). It would be the 2nd Manhattan location for the chain - the first location opened in 2004 at 135th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard in Harlem.
The space is 23,000 square feet and would have two levels for dining. An IHOP spokesman told The Post that they're "constantly looking for new locations." If they open the location, Times Square will be the happening place for tourists. Breakfast at IHOP, lunch at McDonald's, dinner at Red Lobster. It's like their own little mecca. A mecca with menus as large as America's waistlines.
View of 1540 Broadway via Google Maps Street View
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I can finally get my "Rooty Tooty Fresh 'N Fruity" fix!
please, no more chain stores......
Oy. I may even have to stop at Ihop meself...
Can't wait to go to Ripley's Believe It Or Not, too.
Wow, NYC has changed... (understatement of the year).
screw IHOP, bring on the Waffle House!!
IHOP for breakfast now! whoooo
bring on those yummy pancakes.
Screw Waffle House, lets get us some Cracker Barrel up in this piece!
"times square will be the happening place for tourists" - No way. who woulda thunk that would ever be possible? I wonder how long it would take to get seats at IHOP considering that it takes a half hour to order at mcdonalds in times square
can't tourists just got to harlem for ihop like the rest of us? in fact it might be better for new york to send more tourists to harlem instead of times square...
I don't care if they keep fucking up Times Square. In fact, they should just put every chain store, chain restaurant and fancy hotel in midtown, and leave the rest of the city to mom and pop.
i wont be able to smoke in this IHOP... that just wont seem right.
Let's face it, Times Square belongs to tourists, not to NYers. So give'em what they want. At least you know to avoid the entire area altogether for the sake of sanity.
This replaces the hole left by the old Howard Johnson's, though it will take a few decades to get as divey.
Bring back Howard Johnson's!
Dumbass tourists. I despise Times Square.
Dumbass tourists. I despise Times Square.
Wow. It took 14 posts before the Haters came out.
Bring back the peep shows! How else could ya get feel up a voluptuous young thing for a buck..? : (
chain stores in Times Square keep the tourists from going to the good restaurants in NYC. When they travel here they can go to their usual places without spending too much on dinner...
whot the hell eats Red Lobster in NYC?
Personally, I love Times Square, because it keeps the majority of tourists in a place I avoid like the plague.
Say hello to $20 flapjacks!
*THE* death knell for Times Square. How sad.
la guy here - you guys should get a clifton's cafeteria instead of ihop:
http://flickr.com/photos/johncarrillo/499760465/
I love the implication that New Yorkers don't east fast food or chain food and that we're not the fatasses...it's "those" people. Look around, assholes. McDonald's is on every block (usually as busy as can be). Starbucks has ridiculous lines. Uno Pizzaria is in the friggin' East Village. Every time I get on the subway some fatass woman is hoggin up three seats, so I end up having to stand by the fatass man who is blocking the entire door. NYCers elitism comes off as ironic, shallow, and...frankly it's the reason why the rest of the country pretty much hates everyone here.
Finally a place where you can get a fair deal on a square meal. Who needs those stupid ethnic resturants, like Olive Garden, that over charge for skimpy portions? Give me big portions and bring them on fast. What powdered eggs? They are scrambled.
T Square rulz!!
All of you who despise chain stores in a tourist zone can go to your "mom and pop" places and buy the same shit, it's just named something else and slightly more expensive.
@guest 12:28: isn't ironic elitism how williamsburg got famous?
The folks wearing socks with sandals are normally our European visitors, for whom IHOP would, I think, hold lesser appeal.
What you meant to say was, "wearing white tennis shoes with capri jeans...." What is up with the white sneakers all the time?
25: The chain restaurants in Times Square charge more than their counterparts, both the rest of their chain and other, non-chain restaurants in NYC. There are plenty of non-expensive restaurants in NYC. I'm also excited to check out the restaurant Gothamist talks about today: Cafe Cortadito.
great. the IHOP in harlem sucks. the food is terrible and so is the service.
i hate all those "chains" too... like nobu, roy's, smith & wollensky's, aureole, les halles, rosa mexicano just to name a few...
I say, eat what and where you want!! For all those who are too cool too eat somewhere like IHOP or Olive Garden or Ruby Foos, I wish you'd take you're fratboy/hipster ass back to Long Island/CT.
Did anyone else find this post annoyingly condescending? I understand - ihop in times square joins the host of other chain restaurants, tourists may not venture out of their comfort restaurants, enjoy better restaurants in the city, etc. But does gothamist need to be so snotty about it?
#22 is right on.
Anyway, sometimes when you're travelling you want a fast and convenient meal or snack close to where you are or where you are heading. Sometimes you wake up and you want a simple pancake breakfast before you head to the museums or whatever you else you're doing that day. I guess we could all go to the Meridien for a $500 omelette. Just because someone eats at ihop for one meal doesn't mean they aren't going to go someplace great later in their trip.
There is an Olive Garden in Times Square. And at Sixth and 23rd. I walk by there and it is always packed. You aren't going to convince me those are all tourists.
THE* death knell for Times Square. How sad.
"How sad" or "So sad" is the third most overused phrase on Gothamist after "talking points" and "Uh".
And THE Death Knell for Times Square was when Morgan Stanley moved into their offices in the mid 1990s. The other office buildings filled with bankers and lawyers did more to clean up Times Square than anything. That and pushing the strip clubs out.
Shouldn't this be located near the United Nations instead?
hahahaha @ 34
Does anyone know if a Denny's will be opening anytime soon..?
This Gothamist reader is also a tourist. Didn't know I wasn't fit to breathe the same rarefied air as y'all. Thanks anyway; I'll head up to Montreal from now on to speak French with the friendly natives.