Building 42nd St. Selected Bibliography
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Henderson, Mary C., The Story of 42nd Street: The Theaters, Shows, Characters and Scandals of the World’s Most Notorious Street, New York: Back Stage Books, 2008
Henderson, Mary C. and Alexis Greene, The New Amsterdam: The Biography of a Broadway Theatre, New York: Hyperion, 1997
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Wolfe, Gerard R., 42nd Street, River to River, New York, 42nd Street Education-Theatre-Culture, 1984