Times Square Tales: Rowing and Scooping

By Michael T. Kaufman
Published: February 15, 1995

HERE are three final stories from Times Square:

BOATS. If it were not for guerrilla activity in the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Mike Davis would probably not be building 25-foot-long rowboats on the ground floor of the old McGraw-Hill Building on 42d Street. ...

ICE CREAM. Sembala Batchilly had never tasted ice cream during the first 22 years of his life, which were spent with his family of rice farmers in Gambia. ...

PORN. The Times Square Adult Shoppers Center on 42d Street near Eighth Avenue differs from its neighboring vendors of pornographic videotapes and sex paraphernalia by offering shopping carts to customers. ...

A version of this article appeared in print on February 15, 1995, on page B3 of the New York edition.