The Times Square Hustler. Male Prostitution in New York City. By Robert P. McNamara. Praeger, 1994. 149 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $14.95 and Sex, Scams, and Street Life: The Sociology of New York City's Time Square. Edited by Robert P. McNamara. Praeger, 1995. 126 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $15.95

The practice of city planning in New York City was transformed in the decades after World War II. At the start of this period, the system was characterized by little citizen involvement and no transparency. By the mid-1970s, citizens had become accepted participants in land-use decision-making, and formal procedures for involving citizens in planning had been written into local law. This article explores how this turning point in citizen participation came about by focusing on the Cooper Square Committee—an ambitious practitioner of neighborhood activism on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Setting the Committee’s quest in the participatory context of the times uncovers a groundswell of voluntary groups who used the city’s neighborhoods as forums for democratic action. Along with government actors, planning professionals, and civic and social agencies, such groups contributed to the transformation in planning, which developed not by premeditated campaign but by a cumulative process of public problem-solving and social innovation.

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Running Away

Pediatrics in Review ◽

10.1542/pir.4.7.213 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 4 (7) ◽

pp. 213-216

Author(s):

John E. Schowalter

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

Young Adult ◽

Long Distance ◽

Times Square ◽

Running Away ◽

The Subject ◽

Huck Finn ◽

Glass Menagerie ◽

The Times

As you begin reading this review, it is quite possible that you are wondering why you are doing so. What do runaways have to do with pediatricians or pediatricians with runaways? It may seem a subject more fitting for a Sunday newspaper supplement and, indeed, it oftentimes has been one. It has also been the subject of such alarming movies as Harddcore with George C. Scott. Statistics are certainly scary. One reads of 1 or 2 million runaways a year and of the estimated 4,000 to 7,000 teenaged prostitutes working in the Times Square area of New York City. This recent publicity is somewhat overwhelming, and is in stark contrast to the benign, romantic image of the runaway with which many of us grew up. This more comfortable runaway is Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, the young rascal who runs away to join the circus, or the young adult telephone man in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie who falls in love with long distance. In addition, some of the professional writings about runaways suggest that the older views are more accurate. They express the importance for some adolescents to get away and work out their own destinies outside of the perhaps repressive or chaotic atmosphere of their families.

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Music in the streets: the example of Washington Square Park in New York City

Popular Music ◽

10.1017/s0261143000006206 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

pp. 151-163 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Paolo Prato

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

York City ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Art Music ◽

Recent Experience ◽

Street Life ◽

Urban Scene ◽

The Way ◽

Washington Square

Music has always been part of street life. Taking it off the streets and bringing it into enclosed spaces is a relatively recent experience but it has profoundly changed the way music is perceived and evaluated. ‘After art music moved indoors, street music has become an object of increasing scorn’ (Schafer 1980, p. 66). However, although discouraged by the new sonorities that appeared with the Industrial Revolution and the new comfort of home-reproducible music, street music has not disappeared: on the contrary, it is tending to reinvade the urban scene, in forms both old and new.

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William Howard Russell and the Confederacy

Journal of American Studies ◽

10.1017/s002187580000832x ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 191-210

Author(s):

Martin Crawford

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

New York City ◽

York City ◽

The United States ◽

Political Crisis ◽

The Crimea ◽

The Times ◽

Sectional Conflict

The Times of London had kept a close watch on the developing American sectional conflict of the 1850s. Despite charges of ignorance which were persistently levelled against it, the quality of its American intelligence in the years leading up to the war remained consistently high. Since 1854 a young New York lawyer, Bancroft Davis, had provided informative weekly reports on political, diplomatic and economic affairs, whilst between July 1856 and December 1857 the paper possessed in Louis Filmore an experienced and talented Special Correspondent in the United States. After Lincoln's election, however, it became clear that Davis, who was based in New York City, was not up to dealing with a political crisis of the magnitude of secession and to this end William Howard Russell, the hero of the Crimea and the most famous reporter of his day, was despatched to the United States as The Times's new Special Correspondent. Russell arrived in New York on 16 March 1861 and less than a month later embarked upon what was to prove a highly successful tour of the Confederate States.

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Peace & Quiet

IDEA JOURNAL ◽

10.37113/ideaj.vi0.66 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 28-41

Author(s):

Sandra Wheeler

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

York City ◽

Collaborative Process ◽

Times Square

Peace & Quiet, a temporary dialogue station installed in Times Square, New York City provided a tranquil place where veterans and civilians – two wide- ranging groups whose paths increasingly do not cross – could openly engage each other in meaningful conversation. Conceived, designed, and built by the Brooklyn-based firm, Matter Architecture Practice, this project review traces the development and collaborative process by which the station was realised and inhabited.

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(P1-12) Had the Times Square Bomb Exploded: What about the Injured Children?

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine ◽

10.1017/s1049023x1100344x ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 26 (S1) ◽

pp. s102-s102

Author(s):

E. Conway ◽

A. Flamm ◽

G. Foltin ◽

A. Cooper ◽

B.M. Greenwald ◽

...

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

Critical Care ◽

York City ◽

Emergency Preparedness ◽

Time Of Day ◽

Federal Grant ◽

Pediatric Critical Care ◽

Times Square ◽

Preparedness Planning

IntroductionChildren frequently are the victims of disasters due to natural hazards or terrorist attacks. However, there is a lack of specific pediatric emergency preparedness planning worldwide. To address these gaps, the federal grant-funded New York City Pediatric Disaster Coalition (PDC) established guidelines for creating Pediatric Critical care (PCC) surge plans and assisted hospitals in creating their plans. To date, five hospitals completed plans, thereby adding 92 beds to surge capacity. On 01 May 2010, 18:00h, there was an attempt to detonate a car bomb in Times Square, a large urban attraction in the heart of New York City. The perpetrator was later convicted of the attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. Had the bomb exploded, given the location and time of day, it is possible that many critically injured victims would have been children.MethodsThe unit director or a senior attending of nine major hospitals in the NYC area (five in close proximity and four at secondary sites) were surveyed for the number of their vacant pediatric critical care beds at the time of the event before activation of surge plans.ResultsAt the time the car bomb was discovered, the nine hospitals, which have a total of 141 PCC beds, had only 29 vacant approved pediatric critical care beds.ConclusionsHad the event resulted in many pediatric casualties, the existing PCC vacant beds at these hospitals may not have satisfied the need. Activating surge plans at five of these hospitals would have added 92 to the 29 available PCC beds for a total of 121. In order to provide PCC to a large number of victims, it is crucial that hospitals prepare PCC surge plans.

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