Both Ted Steinberg’s article “Can New York City Survive the Sea?” and Jarrett Murphy’s article “The Flood Next Time” focus on the major long-term threat of extreme flooding as sea levels rise due to climate change and the plans Mayors Bloomberg and de Blasio have put forth in dealing with this seemingly distant danger. However, …

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Since before it was even named Times Square, “the lower portion of the bowtie-shaped traffic islands formed by the diagonal intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue, between Forty-second and Forty-seventh streets,” had been an entertainment center (Reichl 1999). It was home to a great number of theaters from the mid-to-late nineteenth century and early twentieth …

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