Main entry:

Bianco, Anthony.

Title & Author:

Ghosts of 42nd Street : a history of America's most infamous block / Anthony Bianco.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : William Morrow, ©2004.

Description:

370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-349) and index.
Overture -- Fathers of Times Square -- The Great White Way: Pleasure Zone Supreme -- Flo Ziegfeld and the Cult of the Chorus Girl -- Last Suppers and Final Curtains -- The Grind House Phoenix -- Birth of the Cool: Hipster 42nd Street -- Milking an Ugly Cow: Speculating on Redevelopment -- Marty Hodas and the Rise of XXX -- Bob Moss and Fred Papert: Urban Moonwalkers -- Turning the Corner in Hell's Kitchen -- The Theater Preservation Follies -- Down and Dirty on the Deuce -- Midtown's Dead Zone -- Rebecca's Magic Wand.

Summary:

Traces the events and personalities that have shaped the history of the famous Manhattan strip, citing the contributions of media companies, property developers, politicians, pornography producers, and historic theaters.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0688170897 (acid-free paper)
9780688170899 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Forty-second Street (New York, N.Y.) History.
Times Square (New York, N.Y.) History.
New York (N.Y.) History.
Forty-second Street (New York, N.Y.) Histoire.
Times Square (New York, N.Y.) Histoire.
New York (N.Y.) Histoire.
New York (State) New York.
New York (State) New York Forty-second Street.
New York (State) New York Times Square.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Ghosts of Forty-second Street

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231936
Call No.: F128.67.F7 B53 2004
Status: Available