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VI. SURVEY OF ADULT ENTERTAINMENT USES <br />In 1993-94, DCP surveyed street and signage conditions, local organizations and businesses, <br />real estate brokers, and police and sanitation officers, and analyzed criminal complaint and <br />property assessment data for six study areas throughout the city to obtain information about the <br />impacts of adult entertainment establishments. A map indicating the location of the study areas <br />follows. The Times Square area was not chosen as a study area because the TSBID study was <br />already underway. DCP's study areas were mostly in the other boroughs in areas with lesser <br />concentrations of adult uses. Three of the six study areas contained a single isolated use. Within <br />each study area, DCP selected "survey" blockfront(s), containing one or more adult entertain- <br />ment establishments, and "control" blockfront(s), which have similar land uses, except for an <br />adult use. A map of each study area is included in Appendix A. <br />Summary Survey Results <br />Planners' Assessment <br />Sidewalk and street frontages on the survey and control blockfronts in each of the six study <br />areas were studied for noise, traffic, sanitation, and loitering. Caution should be exercised in <br />generalizing from this survey. Observations were made during the cold weather months, and <br />over a brief amount of time. Cold weather will discourage loitering because few people want <br />to remain outdoors for extensive periods under such conditions. Surveyors did not spend <br />significant amounts of time observing each street element, although observations were made <br />more than once, on various days of the week, at different times of the day or night, and on <br />numerous blockfronts. <br />On survey blockfronts in half of the study areas, impacts were noted. They were generally <br />associated with non -adult uses, e.g., noise from voices and pedestrian congestion were noted <br />on a blockfront in Study Area 2, but the impacts are associated with a playground. In Study <br />Area 3, pedestrians were observed waiting on the sidewalk, but for meals served in a church. <br />However, some noise from music emanating through the walls onto the street was noted for <br />the topless bar in Study Area 6. <br />49 EVER00147 <br />