Today, a repeat of an old favorite: The once wild life of 52nd Street -- speakeasies, jazz, strippers with monkeys! It was known, simply, as The Street. Arnold Shaw, its main historian, wrote in
52nd St., "If you flagged a taxi in NYC and asked to be taken to The Street, you would be driven, without giving a number or an avenue, to 52d between Fifth and Sixth avenues."
William Gottlieb, 1948, looking east from 6thClick here to read the entire story.
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