Zoning New York's Sex Industry
20 May 2001 - 9:00am
Did New York really clean up Times Square, or did it just relocate New York's sex industry?
"Infrequent visitors to [New York's Times Square] are routinely shocked. Thanks to Giuliani’s legislation and the creation of the Times Square Redevelopment Project (a "public-private partnership"), 42nd Street between 6th and 8th Avenues now has the character of a suburban shopping mall. Movie theaters, chain restaurants, video arcades, and Broadway theaters (which nowadays specialize in shows based on Hollywood films) line a street kept pristine by an army of red-uniformed custodians."
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Reason Online, May 20, 2001
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