1000 on 42nd Street
1000 on 42nd Street

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Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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Essay by Tibor & Maira Kalman and Art Direction by Yolanda Cuomo In order to capture the profound structural and cultural changes taking place in Times Square, Selkirk shot head-one, full-frame, 1000 people of all shapes, colours and origins - some famous, some four-legged - passing through the Crossroads of the World, asking of each only name, hometown and reason for being in Times Square. The results are lively, engaging and surprising, a millennial look at the life of the world's most famous city. Illustrated with 1000 full-colour photos.

Lower East and Upper West
Lower East and Upper West

Author: Jonathan Brand

Publisher: powerHouse Books

Published: 2018-01-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781576878552

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The vibrant street life and people of New York City's Lower East Side and Upper West Side in the 1950s and 1960s are presented in this book of black-and-white photographs by Jonathan Brand. A census taker and later an advertising copywriter, Brand chronicled life as he encountered it on his walks through the city.The book offers 104 striking images of New Yorkers engaged in everyday pursuits, from the Bowery to Riverside Park, juice stands and barbershops to Theatre in the Streets.With an introduction by Julia Dolan, The Minor White Curator of Photography at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, this is the first book from a photographer who developed his art alongside many of the best-known in his discipline. Brand's photographs capture the energy, odd juxtapositions and intimate moments of life in mid-century New York City.

Murder at the 42nd Street Library
Murder at the 42nd Street Library

Author: Con Lehane

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2016-04-26

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1250036879

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This first book in an irresistible new series introduces librarian and reluctant sleuth Raymond Ambler, a doggedly curious fellow who uncovers murderous secrets hidden behind the majestic marble façade of New York City’s landmark 42nd Street Library. Murder at the 42nd Street Library follows Ambler and his partners in crime-solving as they track down a killer, shining a light on the dark deeds and secret relationships that are hidden deep inside the famous flagship building at the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue. In their search for the reasons behind the murder, Ambler and his crew uncover sinister, and profoundly disturbing, relationships among the scholars studying in the iconic library. Included among the players are a celebrated mystery writer who has donated his papers to the library’s crime fiction collection; that writer’s long-missing daughter, a prominent New York society woman with a hidden past, and more than one of Ambler’s colleagues at the library. Shocking revelations lead inexorably to the traumatic events that follow—the reading room will never be the same.

Autograf
Autograf

Author: Peter Sutherland

Publisher: powerHouse Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13:

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Sutherland captures the gritty glory and glamour of this controversial art form in New York, presenting a unique portrait of the graf scene in the metropolis. He features the work of 53 artists, from the present and past generations.

42nd Street
42nd Street

Author: Rian James

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780299081041

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Gentleman of Leisure
Gentleman of Leisure

Author: Susan Hall

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781576873113

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A facsimile edition of the first 1972 edition that followed Silky, a pimp, and his women through an entire year of life on the streets of New York City. Bob Adelman dives headlong onto the world of the original Macks and players - the Big City Pimps - in this in-depth photographic exploration of the underworld figures that populated the streets of New York City. Armed with only a camera Adelman entered the lives of Silky and his women. This facsimile edition re-introduces this classic of the times and makes available, once more, this compelling and hugely popular book.

42nd Street
42nd Street

Author: Bradford Ropes

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-08

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13:

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Bradford Ropes' scandalous original novel is back after decades out of print! Here's the original adult potboiler about the needy, seedy, slangy side of that grimy gulch called Broadway, once upon a time, a twisted comic valentine to musical comedy and to every one of the human vices. It's Valley of Dolls decades before Valley of the Dolls. If you only know the film or stage musical versions, you know only the last part of this wild, outrageous novel. Now you can get the rest of the story... In Ropes' original novel, Billy Lawlor is the half-closeted boy toy of British director Julian Marsh. Leading lady Dorothy Brock is still sneaking around behind her millionaire boyfriend's back with Pat Denning, but this time, Pat is also romancing Peggy Sawyer, while also having an affair with the wife of Marsh's dance director Andy Lee, who has a succession of chorine mistresses of his own. Everybody's drinking, drugging, and screwing so much it's amazing they can get Pretty Lady ready for opening night! You won't be able to put it down. Especially if you've ever done a musical. Also included in this volume is an essay by musical theatre historian Scott Miller exploring the novel, the film, and the stage musical.

A Whole Bag of Crazy
A Whole Bag of Crazy

Author: Pete Chiarella

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-02-22

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781985824133

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"I am known as 42nd Street Pete, a character that I created as a living reminder of that lost decade, the '70s. I was one of a million nameless, faceless kids with no direction and no future. We all had the ugly specter of the Vietnam War hanging like a sword over our heads. We weren't college material; we were clerks, gas station attendants, custodians, the like. Pretty much cannon fodder for the front lines. Most of us knew that we stood a good chance of being drafted and coming back in a bag, so we lost ourselves in the explosion of drugs, alcohol, sex, violence, and music that were the '70s." Hustler, pot fiend, porn expert.Take a walk down a dark alley with 42nd Street Pete as he recounts his tales growing up on "The Deuce." Criminal activity, classic undesirable cinema, pot, booze, pros, cons. The '70s: uncut, uncensored. If you really remember the '70s, you were lucky to have survived them.

Haiku on 42nd St
Haiku on 42nd St

Author: Clerisy Press

Publisher:

Published: 2008-05

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9781578603152

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Once associated with Broadway premieres and New Year's Eve, Times Square has more recently been known more for its porn shops, prostitutes, and other purveyors of questionable moral fiber. Starting a decade ago, everything began to change. The city shuttered the flesh shops, buildings closed for renovation, and a wonderfully whimsical collection of wordplay appeared on the abandoned movie marquees that stretched down 42nd Street. These enchanting, inspiring, even uplifting snippets are collected here in postcard form, for enjoying and sharing.