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Meanwhile, there was increased police activity throughout the area and the <br />Mayor's Office of Midtown Enforcement coordinated action against illegal businesses <br />including massage parlors. The 'commencement of the AIDS epidemic had a sobering <br />effect on live sex establishments and many disappeared. And private developers <br />assembled Times Square parcels, removing existing adult uses. <br />In June 1993 when Insight Associates completed the review for the Times <br />Square BID of City Council legislation there were 36 adult use establishments within <br />the Times Square area, a dramatic decline from the all time high of 140 in the late <br />70s. In addition, the area of concentration had shrunk and shifted. No longer were <br />sex shops lining Broadway and Seventh Avenue to the same degree, but rather they <br />were beginning to cluster along Eighth. Avenue. Now, nine months later, there are 43 <br />adult establishments; with most of the new stores on 42nd Street "lying 'outslde of the <br />UDC's project and along Eighth Avenue. <br />Amidst the refurbishing, upgrading and improvement of a once sorely <br />deteriorated Times Square, there is now new concern about the re,::ent sudden <br />proliferation. <br />EVER00196 <br />10 <br />