Sex, Money, Culture and Politics at the Crossroads of the World.
Focusing on the 20th century, 'Down 42nd Street' recounts the most spectacular moments in the history of one of the world's most famed strips of road.
From the historical moment when the subway came to what became Times Square to the glittering days when the West Side of the street was lined with theatres, this book recounts the postwar deterioration of Midtown, the fight to preserve Grand Central Station, and the recent Disneyfication of the area.
Filled with memorable characters - from the famous and notorious to the entrepreneurial and depraved - this book is both a colourful social history and a grand, episodic, and surprisingly suspenseful narrative.
