Cities virtually shut down between noon and 2pm or 3pm, except markets and restaur-ants serving lunch-hour crowds.
LEAD: The warm and sunny weather yesterday brought a lunch-hour crowd to South Street Seaport.
Attract the lunch-hour crowd to the charming old market area that is now mostly cafes and boutiques.
But it was too late to salvage the lunch-hour crowd for many restaurant owners, some of whom estimated that they would lose as much as $1,500.
A teenage couple opened fire on the lunch-hour crowd.
Speaking of the problem of drug abuse in Hartford, he told a lunch-hour crowd of hundreds.
An example is "Avenue of the Americas": A cat and mouse were lapping milk From the same saucer For the benefit of the lunch-hour crowd.
The place had begun to fill up with the lunch-hour crowd and the noise and the smells nauseated me.
Two gunmen opened fire in a busy restaurant today, killing four men and wounding a fifth in front of a stunned lunch-hour crowd.
The accident occurred at an area busy with a lunch-hour crowd of pedestrians, and at an intersection that neighborhood residents described as particularly hazardous.