I once saw one downtown sitting on a red Cadillac".
Reports on Twitter say at least one downtown hotel, The World Mark, was also evacuated.
Marsh & McLennan Companies, the world's largest insurance brokerage firm, has a corporate campus on the Avenue of the Americas in Midtown, and the American International Group has one downtown.
Looking back on the year's new choreography, my mind flies to one downtown offering and one out of town.
The days after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center were, in the words of one downtown comedian, "perhaps the least funny time in history".
And on Friday night, moving between a show in Hollywood to one downtown required navigating rush-hour and weekend-reveler traffic jams.
At one downtown development, the Icicle Village Resort, buyers have put money down on 22 unfinished units priced between $270,000 and $370,000, said Jonathan E. Corning, a part-owner of the John's Real Estate Corporation.
The one downtown is pretty comfortable, with a number of great beers on draft.
In one downtown area of White Plains, merchants get the new dollars from customers on a regular basis because they are getting them as change from the stamp vending machines at the nearby post office.
One downtown company, Chevron, is moving to the suburbs.
"I'd like to see Citigroup punished," one downtown official said.
