TIMES SQUARE REMADE

Sagalyn chronicles the earliest halcyon days of 42nd Street and Times Square as the nexus of speculation and competitive theater building as well as its darkest days as vice central, and on to the years of aggressive government intervention to cleanse West 42nd Street of pornography and crime. Thematically, the author analyzes the three main forces that have shaped and reshaped Times Squaretheater, real estate, and pornographyand explains the politics and economics of what got built and what has been restored or preserved. Accompanie...[Read more]