FROM THE VILLAGE VOICE

The dangers of the old Times Square—hustlers, muggers, fake ID scammers, murderers even — were all too easy to spot. And while its easy to romanticize that era, anyone who was ever victimized along the old Times Square knows better.

But things aren't all they seem behind the flash, lights and glitz of the Times Square of today either. The new victims in the new Times Square, says the Service Employees International Union, are the workers, often toiling with no health insurance at minimum wage jobs for employers accountable to no one.

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