30 Rock

By Jen Carlson Last week the new Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree arrived at 30 Rock after being torn from its roots in Easton, Connecticut. It will now have until December 2nd to be adorned with lights (last year folks were not impressed by the energy-efficient LED lights), before being plugged in for...

By Jen Chung There were some celebrities on hand too—we spotted Willem Dafoe (currently in Idiot Savant), Billy Crudup and 30 Rock stars Jack McBrayer and Jane Krakowski. All in all, most people—many families—were trying out Apple products, getting advice from employees and passing the time at a ne...

By Jen Chung Photograph by rottenronin on Flickr From the Gothamist Newsmap: An unstable building at 56th St & Snyder Ave in Brooklyn, a burn victim on East 125th St in Manhattan and a shooting on Davidson Ave in the Bronx.Way to go, Nancy Drew: A teen figured out who was stealing from her locker—she...

By Jen Chung After a campaign to get 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan to join Twitter, he has finally joined—"His rep confirmed to Gossip Cop that he signed up this morning." His Twitter handle: RealTracyMorgan. First Tweet: "Welcome To Tracy Morgans World..." Aw, yeah—maybe now he can Twitter about his fish tan...

By Jen Carlson Will the pigeon bullying story be a plot line in an upcoming 30 Rock? The NY Post talked to Morgan Pitts, who rescued the baby falcon from the gang of birds in Greenpoint; he's an assistant prop master at the show, and his first course of action was to bring the little one over to Silvercup Stud...

By Billy Parker Photograph by Idle Type on Flickr From the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn, a boat fire on Hylan Blvd on Staten Island and an animal condition on Corneila St in Queens.Police released footage of a man suspected of groping women's behinds in Crown Heights.The $4.6 mi...

By Jen Carlson Some two years after the fact, folks are still asking Alec Baldwin about The Voicemail. This time around it's not quite the sprawling New Yorker piece, but a short Playboy interview. The actor told the magazine that following the incident, he trusted The View as a safe forum where he could "g...

By Billy Parker What is it like writing for the character of Tracy Jordan? Is there ever a point where you have to stop yourself and be like, "This is too insane. No one would actually say this," and yet wonder if Tracy could still pull it off. Well Tina keeps that in check pretty well cause she knows Tracy (Morga...

By NYC_Billy Vanity Fair’s January cover story is on “America’s New Sweetheart” Tina Fey and (being Vanity Fair and all) it primarily focuses on how Fey transformed from being the frumpy 25-year-old virgin who one agent assumed was having an affair with Lorne Michaels to the sexy librarian The New Yo...

By Jen Carlson ART: Nothing will fit better in your snowy Sunday than a trip to the museum. "After critical and popular acclaim at Berlin's House of Cultures, the Queens Museum of Art presents New York State of Mind, an exhibition and film program that offers a fresh vision of New York City from an outsider...

By Jen Chung So our vote for the best line on TV yesterday is from 30 Rock. One of the plotlines was "Jack (Alec Baldwin) forces Tracy (Tracy Morgan) to attend The Source Awards." Oh, the sitcom wackiness! Naturally, Tracy refuses to go to the ...