"It is not too much to say that a bridge of this capacity would transform the whole midtown area of Manhattan," The Times pointed out 73 years ago.

It's a normal thing to do in a dense midtown area.

Close to a million people were in the small midtown area at this hour, and not one of them was going to get home in time for dinner.

Mr. and Mrs. Seligman died in 1933 and 1936, respectively, a time when big town houses went begging on the market, especially in busy midtown areas.

But residents remember their experience last fall, the last time a movie was filmed in the lower midtown area.

What was left behind - much of the immense midtown area between downtown and 1,300-acre Forest Park, which was the site of the fair - was a wasteland.

A walk through a chic midtown area that was a fashionable residential neighborhood of the early 19th century, before becoming an industrial center.

Hadn't strayed out of the midtown area either time.

The explosions occurred just blocks away from the large Day of Atonement rally, adding to confusion in the east midtown area.

But many other people give Mr. Biederman substantial credit for cleaning up the midtown area and running an organization that spawned imitators across the nation.