A place in New York
The theatre district
1922The theatre districtThe dark lanes of the Forties, deep with taxicabs at eight o'clock, bound for the theatres around Times Square. Nick watches the couples lean together in the cabs and feels the city's loneliness.
At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others—poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner—young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
Visiting today
Busiest in the early evening, just before the curtains go up, much as Nick saw it. Subway: Times Sq–42 St or 49 St.
