Stephen King's the Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance Revised and Updated (91 page)

EMPIRE STATE BUILDING:
III:350, V:286, V:321, VII:18, VII:47

FIFTH AVENUE:
V:271, VI:41, VII:724, VII:811

BRENDIO’S:
JAKE passes Brendio’s on his way to school. Some of the mannequins in the window are dressed in Edwardian clothes. Others are “barenaked.” I:82, III:103, VII:811

BRENTANO’S BOOKSTORE:
VII:811

FIFTH AVENUE AND FORTY-THIRD STREET/THE PUSHING PLACE:
On one level of the DARK TOWER, JAKE is killed here by a 1976 Sedan de Ville. JACK MORT (who pushed Jake in front of oncoming traffic) dubs it “The Pushing Place.” II:315–18, III:104–6

PLAZA HOTEL:
During the day, LUPE DELGADO worked as part of the maintenance crew at the Plaza Hotel. However, his real calling was working with homeless people at the HOME shelter. V:271, V:280

FIRST AVENUE:
V:266, V:429, V:433, V:531, VI:57, VI:74, VI:86

FIRST AVENUE POLICE SHOOTING RANGE:
III:157

NEW YORK PLAZA–PARK HYATT (U.N. PLAZA, U.N. PLAZA HOTEL, REGAL U.N. PLAZA):
The Plaza–Park Hyatt is the First Avenue hotel where MIA takes a captive SUSANNAH once they land in 1999 New York. (Mia needs to find a
telefung
so that she can contact the evil RICHARD P. SAYRE, servant of the CRIMSON KING, who
has promised to help her deliver her CHAP.) Although neither Mia nor Susannah has any money to pay for their room, Susannah uses her little CAN-TAH to mesmerize MATHIESSEN VAN WYCK into paying for their stay. She also uses it to hypnotize the EXOTIC HOTEL RECEPTIONIST into giving her the room key even though she has no identification. Later on in
Song of Susannah,
JAKE CHAMBERS and PERE CALLAHAN travel to the Plaza–Park Hyatt to retrieve BLACK THIRTEEN from the hotel room safe where Susannah has hidden it. According to the sign located in the Plaza–Park’s lobby, as of July 1, 1999, SOMBRA REAL ESTATE and NORTH CENTRAL POSITRONICS are going to rename the hotel the Regal U.N. Plaza. V:595, VI:57, VI:74, VI:86, VI:89, VI:90–98, VI:107, VI:109, VI:118–25, VI:219, VI:223–34, VI:251, VI:256–57, VI:297
(U.N. Plaza Hotel),
VI:317, VI:320–33, VII:67, VII:143
(indirect),
VII:145, VII:303, VII:689

FORTY-EIGHTH STREET:
See
SECOND AVENUE
: EIGHT MAGIC BLOCKS,
below

FORTY-FIFTH STREET:
See
SECOND AVENUE
: EIGHT MAGIC BLOCKS,
below

FORTY-SEVENTH STREET:
See
SECOND AVENUE
: EIGHT MAGIC BLOCKS,
below

FORTY-SIXTH STREET:
See
SECOND AVENUE
,
below, and
LOT, THE
,
in
PORTALS

FOUR SEASONS RESTAURANT:
II:191

GAIETY:
See
TIMES SQUARE
,
below

GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE:
The George Washington Bridge is our world’s version of LUD BRIDGE. III:256, III:292, V:292, V:297, V:298, V:444, VII:503
(Lud Bridge)

FOOTBRIDGE (LaMERK INDUSTRIES):
According to PERE CALLAHAN, in one of the ALTERNATIVE AMERICAS a footbridge (not far from the George Washington Bridge) crosses the HUDSON RIVER. The footbridge was manufactured by LaMERK INDUSTRIES. V:292–93, V:296–99, V:444

GIMBEL’S:
II:191, III:45

GRACE METHODIST CHURCH:
The REVEREND MURDOCH preached here. SUSANNAH’s father didn’t agree with his sermons. III:311

GRAND ARMY PLAZA:
There are two Grand Army Plazas, one in BROOKLYN and one in Manhattan.
See entry in
BROOKLYN
subsection.

GRAND CENTRAL STATION:
III:331, VII:77, VII:201, VII:537

GREENWICH VILLAGE:
II:190, II:199, II:211, II:378, III:350
(East Village),
V:89, V:168, V:169, V:275
(East Village),
V:276, V:290, V:544, VII:653

NEEDLE PARK (WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK):
Washington Square Park was one of PERE CALLAHAN’s hangouts during his drunken vagrant days. When he first arrived in the Big Apple (just after his terrible confrontation with the VAMPIRE BARLOW), he slept on one of its benches. He became a Needle Park vagrant once more after the death of his friend LUPE DELGADO and after the shock of seeing the VAGRANT DEAD wandering around the city.

In Needle Park, Callahan discovered the first of the LOW MEN’s “lost pet” posters advertising for information about him. The writing, spray-painted across the back of one of the benches, said, “He comes here. He has a burned hand.” As a result, Callahan had to leave the city in a hurry.

It’s not surprising that Washington Square Park became a haunt for the low men, given its less than savory history. Before the park was built in 1826, it was a burial ground and then an execution site (public gallows were situated here). During the 1980s, when Callahan would have frequented it, it was a well-known drug-dealing center (hence its nickname). It has cleaned up its act since then, but (as Roland and his
ka
-mates know all too well) the dead of such places don’t rest easy. V:89, V:265, V:289, V:290

GREYMARL APARTMENTS:
The Greymarl Apartments are a Victorian block of flats located on FIFTH AVENUE and Central Park South. ODETTA HOLMES (one of SUSANNAH DEAN’s earlier selves) lived in the penthouse apartment. II:189–93, II:200, II:226
(Odetta’s apartment),
II:255
(Odetta’s apartment)

GUTTENBERG, FURTH, AND PATEL:
The accountant TRUDY DAMASCUS works for this firm. VI:47, VI:52–54
(setting)

HAMMARSKJÖLD PLAZA:
See
LOT, THE
: 2 HAMMARSKJÖLD PLAZA,
in
PORTALS

HARLEM:
VII:807, VII:809

HOME (WET SHELTER):
See
HOME
,
listed separately

HUDSON RIVER:
See
NEW YORK (STATE OF)

HUNGRY I:
A café that ODETTA HOLMES frequented. A lot of folk musicians performed here during the early 1960s. II:218, VI:351, VII:533

JAKE CHAMBERS’S APARTMENT:
The Chambers family apartment is located on FIFTH AVENUE, three and a half blocks farther up than the PUSHING PLACE. Hence it is probably on Fifth and Forty-sixth or Fifth and Forty-seventh. I:81, III:102, III:107–8, III:129–46, III:155–58, III:165, V:565–66
(Elmer’s study)

KANSAS CITY BLUES:
A midtown saloon located on Fifty-fourth Street, just around the corner from SECOND AVENUE. When Jake travels TODASH to New York City at the beginning of
Wolves of the Calla,
he finds himself standing in front of this bar. V:49

KATZ PHARMACY AND SODA FOUNTAIN (SUNDRIES AND NOTIONS FOR MISSES AND MISTERS):
Katz Pharmacy is located at 395 West Forty-ninth Street, and has been at that address since 1927. (It was founded by the present owner’s father.) While searching for Keflex, Roland causes complete havoc here. As KATZ says, Roland commits the first penicillin holdup in history. II:333, II:358, II:360, II:361–70, II:373–77

KIDZPLAY:
See
GUTTENBERG, FURTH, AND PATEL
: DAMASCUS, TRUDY,
in
CHARACTERS

LEANING TOWER (BALAZAR’S OFFICE):
Although ENRICO BALAZAR is one of BROOKLYN’s resident thugs, his head offices are in a midtown saloon known as the Leaning Tower. The first time Roland saw the sign for this den of iniquity (back in
The Drawing of the Three
), he
assumed that the sign depicted the DARK TOWER itself. EDDIE DEAN informed him that it was merely a picture of the LEANING TOWER OF PISA. II:91, II:107, II:112, II:113–22, II:123–57
(135–43 Western Sea as well),
II:204, II:205, II:309, II:369, III:67, III:68, III:99, III:100, III:180, III:262, III:340, V:61, V:92, V:104, V:164, VI:134, VI:139, VI:334

LEXINGTON AVENUE (AND THE DIXIE PIG):
See
DIXIE PIG,
in
PORTALS

LEXINGTON AVENUE AND SIXTIETH STREET:
In
Song of Susannah,
SUSANNAH and MIA stop to listen to a BUSKER performing on this street corner. VI:338–39, VI:347–57

LOT, THE (FORTY-SIXTH STREET AND SECOND AVENUE):
See entry in
PORTALS

MACY’S:
II:99, II:196, II:202–9, II:221–23, II:226, II:227, II:228, II:243, II:255, II:336, III:45, V:174, V:703

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN:
VI:311

MAGIC SHOP:
See
SECOND AVENUE
,
below

MANHATTAN RESTAURANT OF THE MIND:
See
SECOND AVENUE
,
below

MARINE MIDLAND BANK:
V:275, V:288, V:289
(indirect)

MERCURY LOUNGE:
V:183

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART:
The Met appears to exist in all the New Yorks on all levels of the DARK TOWER. It is located on FIFTH AVENUE. III:166–67

MIDTOWN:
VI:73

**MID-TOWN LANES:
The bowling alley that JAKE CHAMBERS frequented while he lived in New York. It is also mentioned in the 2003 version of
The Gunslinger.
While traveling to New York via TODASH, Jake and his
tet
-mates discover a version of his Mid-Town Lanes bowling bag in the Vacant LOT on SECOND AVENUE. (It is the perfect size for carrying BLACK THIRTEEN.) However, whereas Jake’s original bag said, “Nothing but Strikes at Mid-Town Lanes,” the bag he finds while in the
todash
state says, “Nothing but Strikes at Mid-World Lanes.” III:107, III:168, V:198, V:694, VI:49, VI:73, VI:97, VII:143

MILLS CONSTRUCTION AND SOMBRA REAL ESTATE:
See entry in
CHARACTERS

MISS SO PRETTY (SHOP):
III:166

MORT’S HOME:
409 Park Avenue South. II:349

MORT’S OFFICE:
Mort’s accountancy firm is located on Sixth Avenue, also known as the Avenue of the Americas. II:324–26, II:339–41

NATHAN’S HOT DOGS:
V:46

NATIONAL GRAMOPHONE INSTITUTE:
See
SECOND AVENUE
,
below

NEEDLE PARK (WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK):
See
GREENWICH VILLAGE
,
listed above

NETWORK, THE:
JAKE’s father, ELMER CHAMBERS, is a high-powered executive at this TV network, where he is an acknowledged master of “The Kill.” The Network offices are located at 70 Rockefeller Plaza. I:81, I:82, III:90, III:91, III:102, III:168, IV:32, VII:95, VII:299, VII:398

NEW YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL:
See also
RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL
. V:282

NEW YORK HARBOR:
III:90

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY:
V:596, V:598
(indirect),
V:619–23, V:621

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY:
II:115, II:174, V:424

NINETEENTH STREET:
V:284

PARK AVENUE:
V:283, V:284
(vags)

PAUL STUART (SHOP):
III:166

PENN STATION:
VII:194

PIPER SCHOOL:
See
PIPER SCHOOL
,
listed separately

PLAZA HOTEL:
See
FIFTH AVENUE
,
listed above

PLAZA–PARK HYATT:
See
FIRST AVENUE
,
listed above

POCKET PARK:
See
SECOND AVENUE
,
below

PORT AUTHORITY:
II:42, V:264, V:428

PUSHING PLACE:
See
FIFTH AVENUE
: FIFTH AVENUE AND FORTY-THIRD STREET,
listed above

RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL:
III:122, III:350, V:183, VI:53, VII:47

REFLECTIONS OF YOU:
See
SECOND AVENUE
,
below

REGENCY TOWER:
II:41

RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL, ROOM 577 (NEW YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL):
Both ROWAN MAGRUDER and PERE CALLAHAN end up in this hospital room after being attacked by the HITLER BROTHERS. (Quite appropriately, if you add up the room’s digits, they equal NINETEEN.) V:422, V:423–27, V:442, V:443

SAINT ANTHONY’S:
II:359

SAINT PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL:
VI:90

SAKS:
II:191

SECOND AVENUE:
According to EDDIE DEAN and JAKE CHAMBERS, the eight Second Avenue blocks which stretch from Forty-sixth Street to Fifty-fourth Street function as a kind of magic portal. This area contains both the MANHATTAN RESTAURANT OF THE MIND and the magic LOT, home of the ROSE. III:51–53, III:77–78, III:79, III:118–20, V:47, V:49–70 (todash), V:174–97, V:284
(and Nineteenth Street),
V:429–33
(setting),
V:502, V:511, V:514, V:515–48
(setting),
V:590, V:592–96
(setting),
VI:43, VI:47–52, VI:53, VI:54–58, VI:68, VI:65–69
(pocket park),
VI:189
(buying Vacant Lot),
VI:195
(Vacant Lot),
VI:308–20, VII:423
(Harrigan)

EIGHT MAGIC BLOCKS (FIFTY-FOURTH STREET TO FORTY-SIXTH STREET):
V:49–50
(we learn that these are the “magic blocks” later),
V:57, V:58, V:95, V:173, V:175, V:178, V:181, V:182, V:502–3
(magic blocks and key world),
V:592, V:594–96

BARCELONA LUGGAGE STORE:
V:49 (todash)

BLACK TOWER:
See
LOT, THE
: 2 HAMMARSKJÖLD PLAZA,
in
PORTALS

CHEW CHEW MAMA’S (DENNIS’S WAFFLES AND PANCAKES):
Chew Chew’s is located at Second Avenue and Fifty-second Street. In
The Waste Lands,
both EDDIE DEAN and JAKE CHAMBERS pass by this address—Eddie in a dream, and Jake on his way to see
the ROSE. Both of them see ENRICO BALAZAR here, dressed as a bum. (However, in Eddie’s dream, Chew Chew’s is disguised as a MAGIC SHOP.) In
Wolves of the Calla,
our entire
ka-tet
strolls past this restaurant while traveling to New York City via TODASH.