The Devil's Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square (38 page)

CHAPTER NINE

John Clellon Holmes,
Go
(New York: Scribners, 1952); Steven Watson,
The
Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944–1960
(New York: Pantheon, 1995); Matt Theado, ed.,
The Beats: A Literary Reference
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2001); Barry Miles,
Ginsberg: A Biography
(London: Virgin Publishing, 2000); Jack Kerouac,
The Town and the City
(New York: Harcourt, 1950); William S. Burroughs, Junky (New York: Penguin, 1977); The New York
Times;
Timothy F. Gilfoyle, “Policing of Sexuality,” in William R. Taylor, ed.,
Inventing Times Square: Commerce and Culture at the Crossroads of the World
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991); John Rechy,
City of Night
(New York: Grove Press, 1963); James Leo Herlihy,
Midnight Cowboy
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965); Jay Gertzman, “Street-Level Smut,” in
The Position
5/26/2003; Josh Alan Friedman,
Tales of Times Square
(Portland, Ore.: Feral House, 1993); James Lardner and Thomas Reppetto,
NYPD: A City and Its Police
(New York: Henry Holt, 2000); Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
Family and Nation
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986); Fred Siegel,
The Future Once
Happened Here
(New York: Free Press, 1997);
Taxi Driver,
videorecording;
The
New York Times; West 42nd Street: The Bright Light Zone,
City University of New York study, 1978 (draft copy in Ford Foundation Library).

CHAPTER TEN

Documents, correspondence, clippings, etc., in City at 42nd Street File, archives of the Ford Foundation; Lynne B. Sagalyn,
Times Square Roulette: Remaking the
City Icon
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001);
42nd Street Development Project:
General Project Plan,
1981;
42nd Street Development Project: Draft Environmental Impact Statement,
1984; and
42nd Street Development Project Design Guidelines,
1981 (all in archives of 42nd Street Development Corp., O unit of the Empire State Development Corp.);
The New York Times; The New Yorker;
Hilary Lewis and John O’Connor, ed., Philip Johnson: The Architect in His Own Words (New York: Rizzoli, 1994); Franz Schulze,
Philip Johnson: Life and Work
(New York: Knopf, 1994);
Final Environmental Impact Statement
(1984, archive of the 42nd Street Development Corp., O unit of the Empire State Development Corp.).

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Robert Stern,
New York 1960
(New York: Monacelli Press, 1995); Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour,
Learning from Las Vegas
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1972); Lynne B. Sagalyn,
Times Square Roulette:
Remaking the City Icon
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001); Marc Eliot,
Down
42nd Street: Sex, Money, Culture and Politics at the Crossroads of the World
(New York: Warner, 2001);
The New York Times; The New Yorker.

CHAPTER TWELVE

The New York Times;
Lynne B. Sagalyn,
Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City
Icon (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001); 42nd Street Now! (1993); H. V. Savitch,
Post-Industrial Cities
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989).

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau, S, M, L, XL (Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1995); Michael Sorkin, “Introduction: Variations on a Theme Park,” in Michael Sorkin, ed.,
Variations on a Theme Park
(New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992); Alexander J. Reichl,
Reconstructing Times Square: Politics and Culture in Urban Development
(Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 1999).

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Andrew Kirtzman,
Rudy Giuliani: Emperor of the City
(New York: William Morrow, 2000); Marshall Berman,
All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of
Modernity
(New York: Penguin, 1988); Sharon Zukin,
The Culture of Cities
(Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1995); Robert Beauregard,
Voices of Decline
(Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1993); Herbert Gans,
The Urban Villagers
(New York: Free Press, 1962); Richard Sennett,
The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of
Cities
(New York: Knopf, 1990);
West 42nd Street: The Bright Light Zone,
City University of New York study, 1978 (draft copy in Ford Foundation Library); Laurence Senelick, “Private Parts in Public Places,” in William R. Taylor, ed.,
Inventing Times Square: Commerce and Culture at the Crossroads of the World
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991); Mary C. Henderson, The City and
the Theatre
(Clifton, N.J.: James T. White, 1973); Neil Smith, “New City, New Frontier: The Lower East Side as Wild, Wild West,” in Michael Sorkin, ed.,
Vari
ations on a Theme Park (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992); Albert LaFarge, ed.,
The Essential William H. Whyte
(New York: Fordham University Press, 1990); William H. Whyte, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Washington, D.C.: Conservation Foundation, 1980).

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Lynne B. Sagalyn,
Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001); Rem Koolhaas,
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for New York
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1978).

CHAPTER TWENTY

Marshall Berman, “Signs of the Times,” in
Dissent,
Fall 1997; Lynne B. Sagalyn,
Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001).

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Mark C. Taylor, Hiding (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997); Jean Baudrillard,
Simulacra and Simulations
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994).

JAMES TRAUB has been writing about the politics, culture, characters, and institutions of New York City for twenty-five years. Currently a contributing writer for
The New York Times Magazine,
he has also served as a staff writer for
The New Yorker
and has written for the country’s leading publications in fields as diverse as foreign affairs, national politics, education, urban policy, sports, and food. He is the author of two books with

New York City settings—one on the Wedtech scandal of the mid-1980s and a second on the City College of New York. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and son.

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Traub, James.
The Devil’s playground: a century of pleasure and profit in
Times Square / by James Traub.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

1. Times Square (New York, N.Y.)—History—20th century.
2. New York (N.Y.)—History—20th century. 3. New York (N.Y.)—
Social conditions—20th century. 4. New York (N.Y.)—Biography.
5. Popular culture—New York (State)—New York—History—
20th century. I. Title.
F128.65.T5T73 2004
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