One entrance is just steps from Father Duffy Square, a few steps north of Times Square, where tourists and theatergoers line up at a booth that sells discount tickets to Broadway shows.
Best actor nominee Benedict Cumberbatch was inside, outside, calling out to his dad and eventually seated in that round room at a booth with the Collins sisters, Joan and Jackie.
That said, he is very enthusiastic about Properazzi, one of his portfolio companies that had a booth at the conference.
The National At-Home Dad Network, a nonprofit group that had a booth at the summit, puts it this way in its literature: "Dads do not parent like Mom, nor are a replacement for her when she's not home".
She was there as the guest of Sean Koh, the scion of an entrepreneurial family whose holdings include Manhattan Woods, a golf club in West Nyack, N.Y., that had a booth in the pavilion.
"People will always wear clothes," observed Tom Foley, a senior vice president of 24 Seven Inc., a New York fashion recruiting company that had a booth set up at the fair.
Visitors bought tickets at a booth that looked like a giant fish head, and then entered the pavilion through an opening shaped like a woman's spread legs.
The ideas that got short shrift tended to revolve around a booth that was little more than a giant smartphone - "an iPhone on a stick" in the words of one judge.
Azizullah, 60, who sells music tapes from a booth that is only a few inches wider than his shoulders, made a similar point.
