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Article: Hot-to-shop tourists find N.Y.'s Madison Avenue cool.
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- Footwear News
- Article date:
- July 26, 1993
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NEW YORK -- This month, for roughly eight days, New York and the rest of the Northeast languished, enervated by 100-plus temperatures.
Anyone standing at a Madison Avenue intersection would have witnessed the normally briskly striding New York ladies-who-shop do the crawl standing up. Eveything, and everyone, moved in slow-motion. The only pedestrians on Madison Avenue who showed any signs of life were the tourists, chatting about their purchases in a medley of German, Japanese, French, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Korean and variations of English a la British, Australian and Scottish.
Madison Avenue is still, if not increasingly, the gatheing place for ...