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The Times Square BID decided to initiate its own secondary effects study, to <br />ensure that the Times Square experience is well -represented in any city-wide debate. <br />The BiD again hired Insight Associates, with Ethel Sheffer and Marcie Kesner as <br />principal researchers, in September, 1993. <br />In the same month, the Mayor of the City of New York ordered the Department <br />of City Planning to undertake a secondary -effects study for the entire city. That study <br />has focused on six neighborhoods in the five boroughs, but not on Times Square. We <br />have continued to exchange data and cooperate with City Planning in the course of <br />our two parallel inquiries (See Appendix: The Department of City Planning Secondary <br />Effects Study). <br />in addition, the Borough President of Manhattan has established a Task Force <br />on which the BID serves. The Task Force, staffed by -her office, has held public <br />hearings and continues to gather information. It will be : issuing its own <br />recommendations in the Spring of 1994. <br />This study, then, seeks to obtain evidence and dog mentation on the secondary <br />effects, if any, of these adult use businesses in theTimes Square Business <br />Improvement District, and of their dense concentrations, especially along 42nd Street <br />and along Eighth Avenue. The BID instructed insight Associates to follow the models <br />offered by other secondary effects studies. The BID was not seeking an advocacy <br />document, but rather an objective fact-finding study, that would add to the city-wide <br />deliberations and to future attempts to find legal and effective ways to -regulate these <br />businesses. <br />Many people contributed a great deal of time and effort to this work. We want <br />to thank particularly the staff of the -Management Information Division of the <br />Department of Finance and of the Crime Analysis Division of the New York Police <br />Department, as well. as staff of the Midtown. South, Midtown North and Tenth <br />Precincts and the Mayor's Office of Midtown Enforcement..We have not quoted any <br />of our 54 interviewees who work and five In 'limes Square -by-.name, but we thank <br />them for taking the time from their:very.busy schedules to participate In our survey. <br />We also are grateful to the many,people=Jn-the Peal estate. -sector,•• the residents and <br />community leaders in _several .neighborhoods, and the officials ,'of 'municipal <br />government In New York and other American cities, who were generous with their - <br />time in response to our inquiries. <br />EVER00188 <br />N <br />