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Article: HERALD TRAVELER: Millennium Broadway heralds the times.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- December 11, 1997
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A two-story portrait of the "Cat in the Hat," a giant cartoon of the "Lion King," men in red suits and yellow boots sweeping up 18 tons of cigarette butts a year, a 25-theater Cineplex and the world's largest music store - this is what will be seen by the 1.5 million people who pass through Times Square, the place where the ball drops on New Year's Eve.
Times Square is back. Once the center of the city's entertainment business, the area went through a prolonged descent into a pit filled with human sludge. Drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, con men and thieves bled the area dry. But during the past few years, there's been a renaissance. New York is glittering and ...