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| | Articles - 42nd Street (Manhattan) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06) |
 | | From the early 1960s until the late 1980s, 42nd Street was the cultural center of American grindhouse theatres, which spawned an entire subculture. |
 | | The book Sleazoid Express, a travelogue of the 42nd Street grindhouses and the films they showed, describes in detail the unique blend of people who made up the theatregoers, including of fl pimps, low-grade mafioso, transvestites, Latino gangsters, "rough trade" homosexuals, aggressive lesbians, trench coat clad perverts, and thrill seeking squares. |
 | | In the late 1980s, the grindhouses were all shut down in a series of late-night raids by the New York Police, under the orders of Mayor Ed Koch, as a part of his resolution to clean up the city's seedier elements. |
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