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While I miss my favorite cheap porn store [BB King's I think is there now] and I wonder what happened to the "slurpee" Indians who once ran those places, I do enjoy my 2am walks from Times Sq to PABT more.



Exactly. 42nd Street west of Fifth Avenue was a big dogshit stain that reached it's biggest stink factor at Eighth Avenue. I'm glad its gone, including all those much-adored sticky-seat theaters that nobody but the homeless actually visited after 1977 or so. I lived on 46th between Fifth and Sixth from the late 80s till the mid 90s. While there are some things I miss, mostly the days before the entire city became The Apple Garden, I'd rather see tourists around than no one at all, which is what Times Square was like in the early 90s.