The Minnesota Strip is an archaic name for an area in Manhattan comprising Eighth Avenue between 42nd Street and 57th Street. It is now part of Hell's Kitchen .
History [ ]
The name comes from the high volume of teenage Midwestern prostitutes that populated the area from the 1960s to the 1990s[1] [2] [3] [4] and the term only began to disappear as public prostitution became the target of New York City's massive crackdown on prostitution and street crime under then-mayor Rudolph Giuliani .
Popular culture [ ]
The phrase was used in the title of the 1980 film, , starring Hal Holbrook and featuring Mare Winningham as a teenage runaway who returns to her home in Minnesota after months of working as a prostitute in New York.[5] The made-for-TV film won the 1980 Emmy for 'Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or Special' for writer David Chase .[6]
The Minnesota Strip is referenced in the 1978 Broadway Musical Runaways .[7]
The Dictators ' song "Minnesota Strip" from their 1978 album Bloodbrothers is about the area.
References [ ]
Midtown (42nd–59th Streets)
Manhattan , New York City
Buildings
West of 5th Av Rockefeller Center Times Square
East of 5th Av Former
Other points of interest
Restaurants/ nightlife Museums/ cultural centers Stores
Argosy Book Store
Gotham Book Mart
Clubhouses Green spaces
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden
Central Park
Grand Army Plaza
Greenacre Park
Paley Park
Educational institutions
53rd Street Library
Circle in the Square Theatre School
CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
High School of Performing Arts
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School for International Careers
Saint Thomas Choir School
SUNY College of Optometry
Transportation
Subway stationsRailroad stations
Grand Central LIRR terminal
Grand Central Terminal
Streets and intersections
See also: Manhattan Community Board 5
Prostitution in the United States
Areas Brothels Law Media
American Pimp
Dreamcatcher
Secrets of a Hollywood Super Madam
Organizations
BAYSWAN
COYOTE
Equality Now
Free the Slaves
SWOP-USA
People
Activists Brothel owners and madams Courtesans Pimps Prostitutes
Ah Toy
Air Force Amy
Josephine Airey
Brenda Allen
Norma Jean Almodovar
Josie Arlington
Mickey Avalon
Dorothy Baker
Richard Berkowitz
Diamond Bessie
Big Nose Kate
Mattie Blaylock
Scotty Bowers
Gary Ray Bowles
Sarah A. Bowman
Brandi Britton
Carrie Brown
Julia Brown
Julia Bulette
Lisa Crystal Carver
Sylvia Clevenger
Andrew Cunanan
Honeysuckle Divine
Issan Dorsey
Phoebe Doty
Dora DuFran
Pearl Elliott
Robyn Few
Alexis Fire
Albert Fish
Florrie Fisher
Heidi Fleiss
Ali Forney
Denham Fouts
Ronnie Lee Gardner
Jody Gibson
Billi Gordon
Maggie Hall
Fred Halsted
Eliza Haycraft
Toni Jo Henry
Richard Holcomb
Endesha Ida Mae Holland
Xaviera Hollander
Amber L. Hollibaugh
Jason Holliday
John Holmes
Calamity Jane
Helen Jewett
Dean Johnson
Mollie Johnson
Robert La Tourneaux
Jillian Lauren
Kitty Leroy
Rose Livingston
Alice Little
Annie Lobert
Crazy Lou
Brooke Magnanti
Chicago May
Rosa May
Laura Bell McDaniel
Arpad Miklos
Adeline Miller
Della Moore
Tanya Moore
Vicki Morgan
Mother Featherlegs
Jean O'Hara
Barbara Payton
Louise Peete
Willie Piazza
Fannie Porter
Tracy Quan
Tina Rodriguez
Tasha Santiago
Shalimar Seiuli
Mattie Silks
Valerie Solanas
Almeda Sperry
Annie Sprinkle
Nancy Spungen
Margo St. James
Pearl Starr
David Henry Sterry
Star Stowe
Sunset Thomas
Estella Marie Thompson
Libby Thompson
Mary Ellen Tracy
Tiger Tyson
Pearl de Vere
Sheila White
Anna Wilson
Louise Wooster
Aileen Wuornos
Venus Xtravaganza
Johns
Red-lightdistricts
Barbary Coast, San Francisco
The Block, Baltimore
Broadway (San Francisco)
Bucktown, Davenport
Burnt District, Omaha
Cheshire Bridge Road
Chinatown, Honolulu
Columbus Avenue (San Francisco)
Combat Zone, Boston
Creek Street (Ketchikan, Alaska)
Fremont Street
Hell's Half Acre (Fort Worth)
Hunts Point, Bronx
Kensington, Philadelphia
Las Vegas Strip
The Levee, Chicago
Liberty Avenue (Pittsburgh)
Minnesota Strip
Murrell's Row
Nevada State Route 582
North Street (Boston)
Northern Liberties, Philadelphia
San Antonio Sporting District
Sepulveda Boulevard
Slabtown (Atlanta)
SoHo, Manhattan
Sporting District, Omaha
Stingaree, San Diego
Storyville, New Orleans
Sunset Boulevard
Tenderloin, Manhattan
Tenderloin, San Francisco
Times Square
Venus Alley, Butte
Western Avenue (Los Angeles)
Violence Other
Coordinates : 40°45′42″N 73°59′12″W / 40.7617°N 73.9866°W / 40.7617; -73.9866