Where the Ball Drops

Days and Nights in Times Square

• Author(s): Daniel Makagon,
• Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
• Pages: 268
• ISBN_10: 0816642753
  ISBN_13: 9780816642755
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Sociology / Urban , History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) , History / Social History ,

Description:... An analysis of the transformation of Times Square from a seedy urban center to a family friendly entertainment district captures the competing social and cultural fantasies that are at work, revealing an ongoing urban drama of the contradictions of public and private life.