nected by underground passages. The huge Hotel Pennsylvania, facing
Seventh Avenue between Thirty-second and Thirty-third Streets, is the scene
of frequent fashion shows, for it is the New York headquarters of buyers
for many out-of-town department stores. The architects were George B.
Post and Sons. The Hotel Governor Clinton, two blocks south, was de-
signed by Murgatroyd and Ogden. On Eighth Avenue between Thirty-
fourth and Thirty-fifth Streets is the forty-three-story New Yorker, the
second tallest hotel in the city. Completed in 1930 from plans by Sugar-
man and Berger, the structure is a fine example of setback design, con-
forming to the zoning law without loss of artistic effect.

Times Square District

Area: 42d St. (5th to 6th Ave.), 39th St. (6th to 7th Ave.), and 41st St. (7th
to 8th Ave.) on the south to 57th St. and Columbus Circle on the north; from 8th
Ave. east to 5th Ave. Maps on pages 149 and 169.

A belt of white electric bulbs girds the Times Building at Forty-second
Street and Broadway, spelling out spot news in moving letters that can be
read several blocks away. And to the north a wall of light and color,
urging the onlooker to chew gum, drink beer, see the world's most beau-
tiful girls, or attend the premiere of a Hollywood film, lights the clouds
above Manhattan with a glow like that of a dry timber fire.

This is the Great White Way, theatrical center of America and wonder
of the out-of-towner. Here midnight streets are more brilliant than noon,
their crowds on ordinary evenings exceeding those of large town carnivals.
Scarcely a day passes that does not inaugurate some notable event, and in
these theaters, cafes, and hotels, personages mentioned daily in the news-
papers are everywhere at hand. It is the district of glorified dancing girls
and millionaire playboys and, on a different plane, of dime-a-dance
hostesses and pleasure-seeking clerks. Here, too, in a permanent moraliz-
ing tableau, appear the extremes of success and failure characteristic of
Broadway's spectacular professions: gangsters and racketeers, panhandlers
and derelicts, youthful stage stars and aging burlesque comedians, world
heavyweight champions and once-acclaimed beggars. An outer shell of
bars and restaurants, electric signs, movie palaces, taxi dance halls, cab-
arets, chop suey places, and side shows of every description covers the
central streets.

By day, Times Square is a jumble of skyscrapers, antiquated and re-
modeled commercial structures, and shabby taxpayers topped by the huge