Inventing Times Square : commerce and culture at the crossroads of the world /
Taylor, William Robert,1922-
New York : Russell Sage Foundation,
c1991.
Based on a series of six conferences held during 1988-89, sponsored by the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-424) and index.
Developing for commercial culture / David C. Hammack -- Uptown real estate and the creation of Times Square / Betsy Blackmar -- Urban tourism and the commercial city / Neil Harris -- the discipline of amusement / Richard Wightman Fox -- Brokers and the new corporate, industrial order / William Leach -- Vaudeville and the transformation of popular culture / Robert W. Snyder -- The Syndicate/Shubert war / Peter A. Davis -- Impresarios ofBroadway nightlife / Lewis Erenberg -- The entertainment district at the end of the 1930s / Brooks McNamara -- Irving Berlin : troubadour of Tin Pan Alley / Philip Furia -- Broadway : the place that words built / William R. Taylor -- New York's gigantic toy / William Wood Register, Jr. -- Joseph Urban / Gregory F. Gilmartin -- Policing of sexuality / Timothy J. Gilfoyle -- The policed : gay men's strategies of everyday resistance / Geroge Chauncey, Jr. -- Private parts in public plaes / Laurence Senelick.