Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction / William R. Taylor
Prologue
Times Square: Secularization and Sacralization / Jean-Christophe Agnew
Part I. Structural Changes
Introductory Essay / Eric Lampard
Chapter 1. Developing for Commercial Culture / David C. Hammack
Chapter 2. Uptown Real Estate and the Creation of Times Square / Betsy Blackmar
Chapter 3. Urban Tourism and the Commercial City / Neil Harris
Chapter 4. The Discipline of Amusement / Richard Wightman Fox
Chapter 5. Brokers and the New Corporate, Industrial Order / William Leach
Photographs - Gallery 1
Part II. Entertainment and Commerce
Introductory Essay / Margaret Knapp
Chapter 6. Vaudeville and the Transformation of Popular Culture / Robert W. Snyder
Chapter 7. The Syndicate/Schubert War / Peter A. Davis
Chapter 8. Impresarios of Broadway Nightlife / Lewis Erenberg
Chapter 9. The Entertainment District at the End of the 1930s / Brooks McNamara
Chapter 10. Irving Berlin: Troubadour of Tin Pan Alley / Philip Furia
Chapter 11. Broadwar: The Place that Words Built / William R. Taylor
Part III. Commercial Aesthetics
Introductory Essary / William Leach
Chapter 12. New York's Gigantic Toy / William Wood Register, Jr.
Photographs - Gallery 2
Chapter 13. Joseph Urban / Gregory F. Gilmartin
Part IV. Boundaries of Respectability
Introductory Essay / Peter Buckley
Chapter 14. Policing of Sexuality / Timothy J. Gilfoyle
Chapter 15. The Policed: Gay Men's Strategies of Everyday Resistance / George Chauncey, Jr.
Chapter 16. Private Parts in Public Places / Laurence Senelick
Afterword
Re-Inventing Times Square: 1990 / Ada Louise Huxtable
Notes
Contributors
Index