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Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 100

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Hempstead, New York
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100
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A view from the Allied Chemical Tower The oim is to retain tho area's vitality and rid if of the filth and lawlessness Porno movies reign but 42nd Street still projects excitement (Baxodil IFmr TKwQcmqjmmo0 Improved crime statistics may signal an end to the downhill slide for the city's world-famous playland The talk now is of an epic re- birth But it's going to take lots of time and moneyFirst of two parts NSWSDAY WEDNESDAY DECEMIER If 71 As depressing as 42nd Street It the whole ones is goddamn exciting It bos true vitality end night life Jacqueiin Robertson urban iJ What want to do about Times Square is dean it up shatter it to bits and rebuild it Robert Watt president At Broadway Anno nation By Atnei Wallaeh Newsday Cultural Affairs Specialist Times Square Pimp heaven porno haven Heart of the theater meoca at Rip Close to 40 Mocks of the gaudiest grandest filthiest mast crime-infested playland hi die country For years the rumors of its death have been abroad in die land Tve heard about tho decline and fall of Times Square all my life" says Vincent Sardi of SardTs Restaurant "The only tiling changed is the character of the outcry like the difference between a flea cirrus and burlesque" The death rumors draw their strength fra as two malignancies shared to a lesser degree by the rest of the country: illicit sex and violence But in Times Square different Bigger Lika every-thing else about Times Square It is Thursday Sept 20 Louis Robbins is leav ing the textile manufacturing company that he formed 35 years ago and still visits frequently even though he has timed it over to his sons now that he is 76 But there is someone uniting far him in the elevator of the building at 40th Street and Seventh Avenue and by the time Bobbins reaches the ground floor he is dying from multiple stab wounds Robbery was the motive police say There was no arrest In the first 11 months of tho year there veers 48 murders in the area and 11 arrests "Every dty has an area a center for criminal activity" says a spokesman for a company that made good its escape from the neighborhood a year a got better to have it contained in one area so you know where it is Otherwise it would crap up somewhere else OF course in other cities the crime in the area might not be an the epic scale it la in Times Square but everything about Mew York is on an epic scale" So the new improved rumors the ones that couple talk of death with talk of rebirth are on an epic scale too You might call them statistical rumors based on the crime statistics that Mayor office has been releasing ever since he fanned the Times Square Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee and two super police precincts to pour patrolmen into Midtown in a concentrated drive on crime The drive includes camera surveillance in Times Square itself and periodic sweeps of patrolmen through office buildings in the neighborhood According to the latest figures covering the tint 11 montlw of the year 13 of 1 17 "massage parlors" (which also go under tho names of rap yoga and sensitivity studios now that massage parlors have been declared illegal) have been cleaned up but six new ones have also cropped up Thirteen out of 14 prostitution holds have been rehabilitated but there are three new ones the number of pornographic bookstores and peepshows has increased from seven to 21 and instead of 32 adult movies there are now 33 However there were 3758 arrests of all types since the beginning of the year compared with 3120 for tho same period last year hope I can get Times Square to the point where somebody thinking of perpetrating a crime will go to Hempstead" says Mickey Schwartz commander of the Midtown South Rcdnd which includes Street He laughs The upstanding business inhabitants of the area.

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