New York, March 13, 2002 - The BiZBash Event Idea Center, the targeted media company serving the event, trade show, meeting and business entertaining community in New York City, released its special report on "New York's Top 100 Events," a list of the city's biggest annual events. The feature is the cover story in the first issue of BiZBash's new business-to-business newspaper, the BiZBash Event Style Reporter.

Among the events on the list are the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Benefit, MTV's Video Music Awards, the Belmont Stakes, Fashion Week and the New York Marathon, along with a few lesser-known events, including the Greater New York Dental Meeting, which brings 35,000 dental health professionals-and their wallets-to New York each November.

"This list represents the wealth and variety of events that happen in New York every year," says Chad Kaydo, Editor in Chief of BiZBash. "So many great events take place here, which made it extremely difficult to narrow the list to 100. But the ones we chose reflect the diversity and the economic importance of New York's special event industry."

In the introduction to the story, the BiZBash editors called the feature "a list of the biggest events in New York-the ones that get the most press attention, the must-attend events in different industries, the ones that draw the most people (and cash) to the city, the ones that even affect New Yorkers who don't go to them." To research the package, the editors talked to hundreds of experts across numerous industries.

The list includes:

• 35 Benefits/Fund-raising Events
• 5 Sporting Events
• 6 Parades/Marches
• 17 Award Shows
• 5 Opening Night Galas
• 5 Festivals
• 14 Trade Shows/Conventions/Expos
• 21 Events with "New York" in the title

A few statistics about the events:

• Oldest event: The St. Patrick's Day Parade (241 years old)
• Youngest event: The New Yorker Festival (2002 will be the third year)
• Largest events: West Indian Day Parade (one estimate: 2 million people); New York Marathon (2 million spectators, 30,000 runners); Ninth Avenue International Food Festival (two-day event with one million visitors each day)