midtown

Early Friday afternoon of May 24, 1963, presumably following at least a few hours of much-needed sleep after the late night before, James Baldwin showed up for a previously scheduled interview with Lewis Funke of the New York Times at Sardi’s, the midtown restaurant famous for the caricatures of Broadway stars adorning its walls.

But as the promoter soon discovered, selling out a stadium was a far cry from the 2,900-seat Midtown venue.

Last month, a gun attack on an office building left four workers dead in Midtown Manhattan.

It feels like Manhattan is undergoing a similar wave of violence after Monday evening’s mass shooting at a Midtown office building, in which a gunman from Las Vegas killed four people before taking his own life.

Monday’s shooting at a Midtown office tower that houses the NFL headquarters, where four people, including an off-duty New York City police officer, were killed and another was seriously wounded, is the deadliest incident of gun violence in New York City in decades.