Word: block
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cards. You really felt like you were walking through this hellish zone," says Cora Cahan, president of the New 42nd Street Inc., which is overseeing the restoration of seven of the strip's nine theaters. Back in 1978 more than twice as many street crimes were reported on the block as on any other block in the entire city. In 1984 the city- planning-commission chairman told New York magazine that 42nd "is the one street where the city has lost control...
Today the block is well on its way to becoming Manhattan's most chipper. On its east end a onetime porno palace--where Robert De Niro took Cybill Shepherd on an ill-fated date in Taxi Driver--is now a children's theater. Across the street, next to the New Amsterdam, is a big, bright Disney store--probably the only Disney store in the world that is just four doors away from an establishment that sells scary-looking swords and knives, boxing equipment and dusty copies of Bruce Lee videos. The latter retailer is one of two storefront businesses that...
...rest of the old establishments, largely porn emporiums and small shops selling cheap consumer goods, have been evicted. Gone too is the sick-sweet odor of mildew and disinfectant that used to permeate the block, a calling card for its unwholesome diversions. If all goes according to plan, their place will be taken by, among many other things, the Ford Center for the Performing Arts (a new megatheater for musicals combining two of the street's original stages), vast multiplex movie theaters and more tourist lures like Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum...
Unlike some of its fellow early-morning operations, the Tasty's late-night atmosphere benefits from its landmark status in the Reed Block building on John F. Kennedy Street...
...Block said she has invoices which show that the same book is being sold for different prices to the same store, based on whether or not the publisher assumes the book will be used for course purposes...