{"id":3583,"date":"2017-01-14T01:48:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T01:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2017-04-12T22:55:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T22:55:41","slug":"robert-stark-interviews-robert-brenner-about-his-gritty-old-time-square-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=3583","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark interviews Robert Brenner about his Gritty Old Time Square Tours"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert Stark and co-host Pilleater interview Robert Brenner<\/a>. Robert is a writer, critic, satirist, futurist, urbanist, and porkatarian. His work has appeared in the Huffington Post, New York Magazine, Salon, the Barnes & Noble Review, Medium, Different Truths, Antiserious, and Theory In Action. He is a graduate of the Writers’ Institute at CUNY.<\/p>\n

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Robert Brenner’s Gritty Old Times Square<\/a> tours, which are offered on Saturday’s once a Month, hosted by Untapped Cities<\/a>
\nAdult Entertainment is the focus of the tours, but they also cover the general history of Time Square
\nThe remnants of seedy Time Square, including The Playpen, and the Show World Center<\/a> on Eighth Avenue<\/a>
\nRobert Brenner’s experience in Time Square as a youth in the 70’s
\nThat era of Time Square portrayed in the Films Taxi Driver<\/a> and Midnight Cowboy<\/a>
\nThe gentrification of Time Square in the 90’s, and how the area went from an interesting but dangerous area to a safe and boring one
\nThe Deuce<\/a> on 42nd Street, which was the center of adult entertainment in the 70’s
\nThe Porn Industry in Time Square, and premier of 70’s porn films such as Behind the Green Door<\/a> and Deep Throat<\/a> that paved the way for the future of the pornographic industry, spawning many different adult sites, live cam sites, and even the Babestation blog<\/a>.
\nRobert Brenner’s point that every city needs a Red Light District
\nPeter Sotos’s Pure Filth<\/a> about the pornographer Jamie Gillis<\/a>
\nSan Francisco’s Tenderloin<\/a>, where Robert Brenner lived in the early 80’s, and Robert Stark’s observations from his trip to the San Francisco Bay Area<\/a>
\nThe decline of neon signage in favor of LED, Robert Stark’s interview with Thomas Rinaldi of New York Neon<\/a>, and the company LET THERE BE NEON!<\/a> which restores old signs
\nThe history of the Broadway Theater District, the New Amsterdam Theatre<\/a>, and the defunct Paramount Theatre<\/a>
\nThe closing of Carnegie Deli<\/a> and Maxie’s Delicatessen<\/a>
\nThe Bond Clothing Store Signs in Times Square<\/a>
\nThe John Portman designed Marriott Marquis<\/a> in Time Square
\nThe Tour of the Remnants of Penn Station<\/a>, and plans for Moynihan Station<\/a> inspired by the old Penn Station
\nNew York Skyscrapers<\/p>\n

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