The nonprofit organization New 42, which earned a Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theater this year, continues to pave the way for a revitalized Times Square.
By the 1980s, most of the drama that took place on West 42nd Street was the kind that theater-loving New Yorkers would never applaud. Drug deals, prostitution and pornographic movies dominated the block between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, which had d... [1686 chars]