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List of Illustrations | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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Chinatown, Chatham Square, and the Bowery | |
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A Round for the Old Atlantic (The Atlantic Garden) | |
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Chinatown Theater (The 1893 Chinese Theater) | |
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Union Square and the East Village | |
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A Roof with a View (American Mutoscope Studio) | |
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Caretakers of Second Avenue (Hebrew Actors' Union) | |
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The Tenderloin | |
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If You Can Make 'Em Cry (Tin Pan Alley) | |
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Tenderloin Winners and Losers (Shang Draper's Gambling House) | |
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Harlem | |
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A Theater of Our Own (The Lincoln Theater) | |
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Rise and Fall of the Original Swing Street (West 133rd Street) | |
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Times Square | |
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The Strike Invisible (Horn & Hardart's Original New York Automat) | |
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Last Dance at the Orpheum (The Orpheum Dance Palace) | |
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Nights of Gladness (Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe) | |
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Epilogue | |
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A Note on Sources | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |
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About the Author | |
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Figures | |
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The former Baby Grand, 319 West 125th Street, 2008 | |
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The Atlantic Garden during its vaudeville years, early 1890s | |
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The Atlantic Garden, 2008 | |
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Interior of the Chinese Theater, 1896 | |
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Doyers Street, with the former Chinese Theater building, 2008 | |
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Filming at the American Mutoscope rooftop studio, 1897 | |
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The former American Mutoscope rooftop, 2008 | |
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Membership cards from the Hebrew Actors' Union, 1921 and 1993 | |
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The Hebrew Actors' Union, 31 East 7th Street, 2008 | |
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Tin Pan Alley during its peak years, early 1900s | |
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View of the buildings of Tin Pan Alley, numbers 55 through 47, 2008 | |
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Tenderloin scene, perhaps the "cork room" of Koster & Bial's, 1890s | |
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Shang Draper's former gambling house, 6 West 28th Street | |
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The Lincoln Theater, 1916 | |
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Side view of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, the former Lincoln Theater, 2008 | |
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133rd Street nightclub as photographed by Andreas Feininger, 1940 | |
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Basement level of 168 West 133rd Street, once Pod's and Jerry's Log Cabin, 2008 | |
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Times Square Automat, 1914 | |
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Remnant of decorative ceiling, Times Square Automat, 2006 | |
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Orpheum dancers, 1936 | |
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Orpheum Dance Palace, 2005 | |
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Diamond Horseshoe patrons, early 1940s | |
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Diamond Horseshoe window case in front of Paramount Hotel, 2007 | |
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Second floor of the former Nest Club building, 169 West 133rd Street, 2007 | |
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Maps | |
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Bowery/Chinatown, ca. 1905 | |
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Union Square/Second Avenue, ca. 1928 | |
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Tin Pan Alley/Tenderloin, 1902 | |
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Harlem/West 133rd Street, ca. 1929 | |
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Broadway/Times Square, ca. 1940 | |