2.  Midtown, Manhattan-based primary
care/family medicine practitioner Dr. John
Lupiano has a long history of living and
working in his native New York City. The
recipient of an MD from the University of
Buffalo, School of Medicine & Biomedical
Sciences, Dr. John Lupiano operated a
practice on West 49th Street in the heart of
Midtown and in Manhattan’s Theater
District (located between 41st and 53rd
Street and Sixth and Ninth Avenues).

3.  New York City can trace its history of musicals and
plays back to the pre-Revolutionary War Era. In the
1750s, actor-managers Thomas Kean and Walter
Murray founded a theater company in the city’s
modern-day financial district. The Revolutionary War,
however, halted all theater productions and the
Kean-Murray company did not open again until the
1790s. Up until the Civil War, theaters became
increasingly popular in New York City. At the time,
however, New York City’s more popular
entertainment venues, like the Bowery Theater
(founded 1826) and Niblo’s Garden (founded 1829),
operated in Lower Manhattan.

4.  Midtown Manhattan did not become the home to
New York City’s world-renowned Theater District until
the early 20th century. The relocation of The New
York Times headquarters from Lower Manhattan to
Midtown in the early 1910s helped spur residential
migration to the area; cultural attractions began
appearing around the same time. Broadway’s oldest
continually operating theater, the Lyceum, was
founded in Midtown in 1903. In the 1920s, Midtown’s
Broadway area became the booming theater district
we know today. Around the same time, Times Square
was transformed from a quiet city center to today’s
vibrant tourist attraction.