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Well, now, from April Square to Columbus Circus,

the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonest mile in the world.

Broadway's My Beat, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. Music The day without color is only six hours old, and the restlessness begins to eat at Broadway.

The waiting, the longing for the nighttime begins to gnaw like hunger,

like thirst. Because Broadway's night is a banquet loaded with delicacies. The scarlet wine of neon,

the forbidden fruit of a trumpet scream. The lukewarm stew offered on a tin plate through an alley doorway.

But Broadway's day, that's the drab time, kid, the empty

time, the time of leaning against sun-warm stone and waiting. And you wait with the rest of

Broadway because it'll come. Something will come. And it does. You know that because Broadway nudges you with an elbow, winks, says,

Follow me, kid, the day is turned bright, and it's not far away where the day is bright,

on 39th Street, just off 7th Avenue in the garment center. The crowd is already there ahead of you,

tooth-picking its last bite of lunch,

digesting the spectacle of a man sprawled on the pavement.

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