Broadway sucks! But then I guess maybe some out-of-towners like a musical called Frozen or other terrible shows designed for the lowest mentality going. Last year, there was ONE straight play on B’way. One! Then take a look at a play-listing page from the 60s or 70s and 80s and see the glorious musicals and dramas that ran across the Great White Way. I don’t necessarily blame the pedestrian walkway but that is part and parcel of the ruin of that area and how residents of the city now avoid it like the plague. Once there was a brilliant bookstore called The Drama Book Store that loomed over B’way. Now it is shunted onto either 40th or 41st Street; it is half the size of the original and it has completely lost what made it magical to me when I had my first apt. in NYC. It was a victim of the “revitalization” of Times Square. I doubt Mr. Guiliani even knew what it was and he should have as an opera nut.
so you’d rather have poverty than economic activity ?