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  • He financed the opening of several venues, including the famous Selwyn Theater on Forty-second Street, as well as various productions that brought tens of thousands of patrons to Broadway and helped establish it as the first entertainment capital of America.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • At eleven A.M. Toby Grissom checked out of the Cheap and Cozy Motel where he had spent the night on the Lower East Side and started to walk to Forty-second Street where he could get a bus to LaGuardia Airport.

    I’ll Walk Alone Mary Higgins Clark 2011

  • The largest manure block was located on Forty-second Street, one block away from where a hundred thousand people got their drinking water, the Croton Reservoir.

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • Lisa has already left for her office, has been gone from the house for half an hour already, the hand-waxed black Lincoln Town Car, piloted by Alvin Hemmings, gliding up Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive already approaching the Forty-second Street exit.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • Like the great ice-breaking prow of an arctic vessel, Augustin Skala plowed a path through the crowd as it bottlenecked before the Forty-second Street doors.

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • Classes were often held at the CUNY Graduate Center, 33 West Forty-second Street, and sometimes featured prominent figures from the Socialist Scholars Conferences, such as Stanley Aronowitz, as instructors.

    Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010

  • I remember I had difficulties painting the black guy because I had no model, so with a girlfriend of mine I went to Forty-second Street to a porno shop to find a torso of black guy, a powerful torso.

    INVISIBLE HUGUES DE MONTALEMBERT 2010

  • Asia magazine, now housed in the John Day offices on Forty-second Street, was also in trouble.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • On the way home from Kennedy Airport, where she landed in June 1988, after we rolled across Manhattan toward the Lincoln Tunnel, a young woman in tight shorts approached our car at a red light on Forty-second Street.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • AUNT WAVA WAS FOREVER TELLING LILY that New York City was the best city in the world, and as Lily walked out from the bus terminal onto Forty-second Street, she understood why.

    WILLOWOOD Cecilia Galante 2010

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