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...neat irony, then, that the crash of 1987 is in great part responsible for 42nd Street's rebirth as a middle-class destination. Earlier in the decade the city and state agreed on an ambitious $2.5 billion redevelopment plan for 42nd Street and Times Square, the driving force of which was to be four mammoth, nearly identical office towers designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee as a kind of chilly Rockefeller Center South. Fortunately for fans of Times Square's higgledy-piggledy aesthetic, the late-'80s economic downturn pulled the rug out from under that plan. And there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIRACLE ON 42ND ST. | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

TRENT LOTT Mr. Neat gets rolled by Dems, who manage to broaden Senate probe of campaign finance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 24, 1997 | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

Tucked away between the neat row houses and dry cleaners of Concord Avenue, the store could be easily missed by passers-by because of its small size...

Author: By Laura C. Semerjian, | Title: Oddly Shaped Store Has a Quirky Past | 2/26/1997 | See Source »

Kelly's crew of Mafia godfathers, Irish thugs, federal agents and neighborhood boys reads like a police dossier. There is Butcher Boy, a psychotic neat-freak who lives on steroids, Twinkies and cocaine and who lost count of his kills at thirty men. There is Mary Moy, a pregnant FBI agent determined to uncover the construction conspiracy before a maternity leave takes her off the case of a lifetime. There is Vito Romero, a Mafia man devastated by the death of his wife and tortured by the desire to rehabilitate and control his pierced, punk and promiscuous teenage daughter...

Author: By Sarah D. Kalloch, | Title: Mob Novel With A Subterranean Twist | 2/13/1997 | See Source »

...neat to work with the collection," she said. "I was always looking for a way to get my hands on these things...

Author: By Amita M. Shukla, | Title: Even Time Has a History | 2/7/1997 | See Source »

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