Since May 2009, the portions of Broadway through Duffy Square, Times Square, and Herald Square have been closed entirely to automobile traffic, except for cross traffic on the Streets and Avenues, as part of a traffic and pedestrianization experiment, with the pavement reserved exclusively for walkers, cyclists, and those lounging in temporary seating placed by the city.

Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

In 2009, the Turkish Government introduced various economic stimulus measures to reduce the impact of the 2007 – 2012 global financial crisis such as temporary tax cuts on automobiles, home appliances and housing.

In March 2009, British family care activist and a best-selling novelist Erin Pizzey reportedly declined to comment on the temporary withdrawal by its publishers of the book Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain following her complaint it had falsely linked her to The Angry Brigade.

In 2009, the Smithsonian announced a temporary new setting for the jewel to celebrate a half-century at the National Museum of Natural History.

On July 16, 2008, the team announced that they would host the 2009 NHL Winter Classic on a temporary ice rink at Wrigley Field on New Years Day against fellow " Original Six " member Detroit Red Wings.

On 9 July 2009 Mark Wotte was sacked as Head Coach with Stewart Henderson taking temporary charge.

Because of the closing of the Lake Champlain Bridge in the fall of 2009, as of October 2009 a temporary pedestrian ferry service runs from the Westport Marina across Lake Champlain to Vermont on a limited basis during morning and evening commuting hours.

Ale Ebrahim, N., Ahmed, S. & Taha, Z. in their recent ( 2009 ) literature review paper, added two key issues to definition of a virtual team “ as small temporary groups of geographically, organizationally and / or time dispersed knowledge workers who coordinate their work predominantly with electronic information and communication technologies in order to accomplish one or more organization tasks ”.

With two channels ( BBC HD and ITV1 HD ) Freeview HD completed a " technical launch " on 2 December 2009 from Winter Hill ( as a full power service ) and Crystal Palace ( as a reduced power temporary service ) and operates on multiplex BBC B ( aka Multiplex B or PSB3 ) from that date in regions that switched-over on or after that date, with the service coming to all regions by the end of 2012.

Before the 2009 elections, Shem-Tov was expelled from the party by Shlomi Sandak who was the temporary chairman of the Green Leaf Party.

Cornwall is a port-of-entry into Canada ( Canada Border Services abandoned the Cornwall Island post May 31, 2009, but resumed service on July 13, 2009, at temporary facilities on the city's southern edge ).

Taking the group's work further into the dance and electronic genres, it was released on September 11, 2009, following band member Nadja Benaissa's charge of grievous bodily harm and temporary imprisonment in April 2010.

In 2009, Toys “ R ” Us subsequently put temporary FAO Schwarz boutiques in its U. S. Toys “ R ” Us stores for the holidays, and in October 2010, the concept was expanded into permanent boutiques in Toys “ R ” Us stores.

Following the community buyout of Raasay House a £ 3. 5M refurbishment is underway, leading to the temporary closure of the outdoor centre until 2009.

Workington North railway station opened on 30 November 2009 as a temporary means of crossing the river following the closure of road bridges.

All full-power analog broadcasts ended in June 2009, and all temporary full-power digital broadcasts moved back down to the lower channels.

Metrodome set up for the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament | 2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament ; temporary stands enclose the basketball court on two sides with the permanent stands on the other two.

A Day In Pompeii which was on display at Melbourne Museum from 26 June-25 October 2009 was Melbourne Museum's most popular temporary exhibition.

On April 15, 2009 it was announced that McCurry and George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer would both work as temporary media aides to Conservative Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper.

This site also served as the company's temporary technical support headquarters during the 2009 G20 Summit.

The first-ever official exhibition spotlighting Bardot's influence and legacy opened in Paris on 29 September 2009 – a day after her 75th birthday.

* ' Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Acquisition of Genius ' exhibition at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery-21 November 2009 to 20 February 2010

* Contemporary artists Jutta Koether, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Kenneth Goldsmith, Eline McGeorge and Karl Holmqvist were commissioned to make new installation works in 2009 in response to Kurt Schiwtters as part of the Senses exhibition which took place in Alesund, Norway ( 2009 ) and at Chisenhale Gallery, London ( 2010 ).

In 1957 he had the first solo exhibition of his paintings in New York at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery and he had the final solo exhibition of his lifetime-Kenneth Noland Shaped Paintings 1981-82, which opened Oct 29 2009 at the Leslie Feely Fine Art Gallery on E. 68th St. in New York City and was scheduled to close January 9, 2010, though, the closing date was later extended to January 16.

The exhibition was held from October 1, 2009 to January 17, 2010 in London.

In 2009, he compiled a podcast for Tate Britain to accompany their Altermodern exhibition, and opened a new AV night called MMMTV in Camden.

It has helped to sponsor popular traveling exhibits, such as an early 2010s " King Tut " exhibit featuring magnificent artifacts from the tomb of the young Egyptian Pharaoh ; " The Cultural Treasures of Afghanistan " which opened in May 2008 and traveled to other cities for 18 months ; and an exhibition of China's Terracotta Warriors in its Washington headquarters in 2009 – 10.

Since 2006, the NBA has faced Euroleague teams in exhibition matches in the NBA Europe Live Tour and since 2009 in the Euroleague American Tour.

* The Smithsonian's traveling exhibition Elihu Vedder's Drawings for the Rubaiyat at the Phoenix Art Museum, November 15, 2008 – February 8, 2009

* The exhibition Edward Fitzgerald & The Rubaiyat from the collection of Nicholas B. Scheetz at the Grolier Club, January 22 – March 13, 2009.

* The exhibition The Persian Sensation: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in the West at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin, February 3 – August 2, 2009

* An exhibition at the Cleveland Public Library Special Collections, opening February 15, 2009

In 2009, an exhibition, Mad About Sergio, was held at the Ojai Valley Museum.

On March 28, 2009, The Science Museum in London, opened an exhibition called " Wallace & Gromit present a World of Cracking Ideas.

On March 31, 2009, Yoko Ono went to the inauguration of the exhibition: " Imagine: The Peace Ballad of John & Yoko " to mark the 40th anniversary of Lennon-Ono bed-in at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada from May 26 to June 2, 1969.

In October 2009, Viola ’ s solo exhibition entitled " Bodies of Light ” appeared at the James Cohan Gallery in New York.

The exhibition opened in Richmond, Virginia on March 17, 2007, and closed at the Smithsonian International Gallery on October 31, 2009.

Portman's work was featured in a major exhibition at Atlanta's High Museum of Art in 2009.

On October 11, 2009, Prince gave two surprise concerts at the glass-and-iron Grand Palais exhibition hall after visiting the landmark Paris building on the banks of the Seine.

This follows the 2009 exhibition of Suzanne Valadon and Maurice Utrillo's works held in Paris in 2009.

The 2009 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition was titled " Salvador Dalí Liquid Desire " and ran from 13 June to 4 October 2009.