Description Twentieth Anniversary Edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Forty-second Street, then the most infamous street in America, was being remade into a sanitized tourist haven.
Delany\'s groundbreaking Times Square Red, Times Square Blue..
This twentieth Anniversary Edition includes a new foreword by Robert Reid-Pharr that traces the importance and continued resonances of Samuel R.
Delany bore witness to the dismantling of the institutions that promoted points of contact between people of different classes and races in a public space, and in this hybrid text, argues for the necessity of public restrooms and tree-filled parks to a city\'s physical and psychological landscape.
Samuel R.
Delany saw a disappearance, not only of the old Times Square, but of the complex social relationships that developed there.
In the forced disappearance of porn theaters, peep shows, and street hustlers to make room for a Disney store, a children\'s theater, and large, neon-lit cafes, Samuel R.
Description Twentieth Anniversary Edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Forty-second Street, then the most infamous street in America, was being remade into a sanitized tourist haven
