From 10th Avenue to 9th Avenue
Playwrights Horizons is another important off-Broadway theatre. It's at 416 West 42nd Street. The new building, designed by Mitchell Kurtz, is not quite complete, yet. 
Next door is Chez Josephine, a bistro owned by one of Josephine Baker's adopted children.
Across the street is Bistro du Vent, yet another restaurant in the Mario Batali et al empire.
This restaurant had some unusual press coverage in late August, 2005, when a security camera captured a frolicking foursome of (now former) employees passing the time. Bistro du Vent is in the huge Manhattan Plaza complex, David Todd & Associates, 1977. The entrance to the building is on 43rd Street, but it occupies an entire block, so we see a whole side of it on 42nd Street. The building was constructed to provide housing for people in relatively low-paying theatrical professions, this being the theatre district.
On the southwest corner of 42nd Street and Ninth Avenue is a nearly mustard-color hotdog stand.
Next door is Chez Josephine, a bistro owned by one of Josephine Baker's adopted children.
Across the street is Bistro du Vent, yet another restaurant in the Mario Batali et al empire.
This restaurant had some unusual press coverage in late August, 2005, when a security camera captured a frolicking foursome of (now former) employees passing the time. Bistro du Vent is in the huge Manhattan Plaza complex, David Todd & Associates, 1977. The entrance to the building is on 43rd Street, but it occupies an entire block, so we see a whole side of it on 42nd Street. The building was constructed to provide housing for people in relatively low-paying theatrical professions, this being the theatre district.
On the southwest corner of 42nd Street and Ninth Avenue is a nearly mustard-color hotdog stand.
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