Theater District
| Theater District | |
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| Neighborhood of Manhattan | |
The Golden Theatre, Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre and Booth Theatre on West 45th Street in Manhattan's Theater District
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| Coordinates: 40°45′28″N 73°59′9″W / 40.75778°N 73.98583°WCoordinates: 40°45′28″N 73°59′9″W / 40.75778°N 73.98583°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| City | New York City |
| Borough | Manhattan |
| Zip code | 10018, 10019, 10036 |
| Area code | 212, 646, 917 |
New York City's Theater District (sometimes spelled Theatre District, and officially zoned as the "Theater Subdistrict") is an area in Midtown Manhattan where most Broadway theaters are located, as well as many other theaters, movie theaters, restaurants, hotels, and other places of entertainment. It extends from West 40th Street to West 54th Street, and from Sixth Avenue to Eighth Avenue, and includes Times Square. The Great White Way is the name given to the section of Broadway which runs through the Theater District.
It also contains recording studios, record label offices, theatrical agencies, television studios, restaurants, Duffy Square, Shubert Alley, the Brill Building, a Ripley's Believe It or Not! Odditorium, and Madame Tussauds of New York.
The Theater District first began attracting theaters and restaurants to the neighborhood after the Metropolitan Opera House moved to West 39th Street and Broadway in 1883.
Over the years since then, the district has been referred to by New Yorkers as "the Rialto", as "The Main Stem", and as "Broadway", and at the turn of the 20th century, was simply called "The Street".
By the 1970s, the 42nd Street area in the district had become quite run-down and seedy—with the opening of a number of X-rated movie houses, peep shows, and so-called grind houses operating there—and was even considered a rather dangerous place to venture into by most New Yorkers. The entire area was later greatly revitalized by the City in the 1990s, however, with the closing of most of those businesses, and with an array of new businesses being attracted in.
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