Stephen King's the Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance Revised and Updated

by Robin Furth

  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.

  Not surprisingly, PERE CALLAHAN also has a connection to Chew Chew’s. During his days at the HOME shelter, he and some of his friends would occasionally eat there. After visiting ROWAN MAGRUDER in RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL, Callahan decided to return to Chew Chew’s for one final bite before leaving New York. When he is attacked by the HITLER BROTHERS, it is a Swissburger from Chew Chew’s that Callahan vomits onto his clothing.

  In 1994, Chew Chew’s changed its name to Dennis’s Waffles and Pancakes, but still managed to retain its central significance to our ka-tet’s story. After eating at Dennis’s, TRUDY DAMASCUS witnesses SUSANNAH/MIA suddenly appear on the corner of Second Avenue and Forty-sixth Street, and Mia promptly confiscates her shoes.

  As we all know from the earlier books of the series, Chew Chew’s isn’t an entirely benevolent place. Chew Chew sounds a lot like Choo-Choo, as in Charlie the Choo-Choo, a sinister storybook starring CHARLIE, the nasty train. III:119, V:60, V:178, V:429, V:432, V:503, V:514, VI:47, VI:52, VI:313

  DENNIS’S WAFFLES AND PANCAKES: See CHEW CHEW MAMA’S, listed above

  FORTY-SIXTH STREET: The corner of Forty-sixth Street and Second Avenue is an important place. On one side of the road is the magical Vacant LOT. On the other (at least in 1999) there is a POCKET PARK, which contains a fountain and a statue of the TURTLE GUARDIAN (see POCKET PARK, below; and LOT, THE, in PORTALS). VI:47–51, VI:53, VI:54–58, VI:65–89, VI:90, VI:104, VI:189, VI:195

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

  GARDEN OF THE BEAM: See LOT, THE: 2 HAMMARSKJÖLD PLAZA, in PORTALS

  POCKET PARK: This little pocket park is located across the street from 2 HAMMARSKJÖLD PLAZA, the 1999 home of the ROSE. Inside the park is a fountain containing a metal sculpture of the TURTLE GUARDIAN. In this park SUSANNAH DEAN enters her internal DOGAN so that she can delay the birth of baby MORDRED. Here also she charms MATHIESSEN VAN WYCK with her little CAN-TAH. In the final book of the Dark Tower series, IRENE TASSENBAUM waits for Roland in this peaceful place while he visits the TET CORPORATION across the street. Those visiting the pocket park sometimes hear singing reminiscent of the Rose’s song. For all who go there, it is a refreshing place. VI:57–58, VI:65–89 (in dogan—67–77), VII:488–91, VII:497

  HARRIGAN’S STREET CORNER (SECOND AND FORTY-SIXTH STREET): The Reverend EARL HARRIGAN likes to preach on this corner. VI:257–61, VI:308–20, VII:423

  LOT, THE: See entry in PORTALS

  MAGIC SHOP (HOUSE OF CARDS): This magic shop exists only in EDDIE DEAN’s dream version of New York. He imagines it sits on Second Avenue and Fifty-second Street, the location of CHEW CHEW MAMA’S. In Eddie’s sleep vision, ENRICO BALAZAR sits in front of the store dressed as a bum. In the window is a sign that reads “House of Cards.” Quite appropriately, the window display is of a tower built of tarot cards. III:51–52

  MANHATTAN RESTAURANT OF THE MIND: The Manhattan Restaurant of the Mind is located on Second Avenue and Fifty-fourth Street. It’s run by CALVIN TOWER, probably with a little help from his sidekick, AARON DEEPNEAU. Back in The Waste Lands, JAKE bought Riddle-De-Dum! and Charlie the Choo-Choo here. In Wolves of the Calla, EDDIE visits the Manhattan Restaurant of the Mind and arrives just in time to save Tower from BALAZAR’S MEN. After Eddie beats up Balazar’s thugs, telling them that Tower will not sell the Vacant LOT to them, the WOLVES of New York burn this shop down. Luckily, Tower isn’t there when they do it. We don’t know whether the shop cat, SERGIO, survives the blaze. III:112–18, III:119, III:128, III:155, IV:18 (as bookstore), IV:46, V:51, V:54–70 (todash), V:91, V:92–100 (discussed), V:177, V:178, V:503, V:516, V:518–48, V:592–93, V:709, VI:35 (indirect), VI:84 (indirect), VI:139, VI:140, VI:183 (indirect), VI:192 (indirect), VI:196 (indirect), VI:399, VII:495

  NATIONAL GRAMOPHONE INSTITUTE: This place doesn’t really exist. EDDIE DEAN makes it up to show that any old institution can exist on the Vacant LOT as long as the ROSE is protected from harm. VI:270

  PAPER PATCH: III:120

  POCKET PARK: See FORTY-SIXTH STREET, listed above

  REFLECTIONS OF YOU: This shop’s display window is full of mirrors. In his dream-vision of New York, EDDIE sees himself reflected in these mirrors but his image is actually dressed like JAKE. Later, on his way to find the ROSE, Jake also sees himself reflected in these mirrors. III:77, III:119

  STATION SHOES AND BOOTS: Located on Second Avenue and Fifty-fourth Street. V:517, V:593

  TOM AND JERRY’S ARTISTIC DELI: See LOT, THE, in PORTALS

  TOWER OF POWER RECORDS: As JAKE passes by this shop on his way to the ROSE (which he actually hopes is a portal to Roland), “Paint It Black” is belting out of the doorway. Not surprisingly, the lyrics are about doors. III:119, V:60, V:178, V:179, V:186, V:515, V:518, V:593

  TURTLE BAY: See TURTLE BAY, listed below

  TURTLE BAY LUXURY CONDOMINIUMS: See TURTLE BAY, listed below

  SIR SPEEDY CAR PARK: Located on Sixty-third Street. When in New York, the TASSENBAUMs park their cars here. VII:486

  SISTERS OF MERCY HOSPITAL: II:211–12, II:214–20

  SIXTIETH STREET: VI:41

  SIXTY-FIRST STREET (DIXIE PIG ENTRANCE): See DIXIE PIG, in PORTALS

  SPARKS: A restaurant that EDDIE and HENRY like to go to. II:47

  STATION SHOES AND BOOTS: See SECOND AVENUE, listed above

  STATUE OF LIBERTY: I:79, III:349, V:321, VII:18

  TASSENBAUM APARTMENT: VII:486

  TENTH STREET: V:283

  THIRTIETH STREET: V:283

  TIMES SQUARE: While searching for a doorway into MID-WORLD, JAKE stops here to rest and is accosted by an officer of the law. He uses his magic key to mesmerize the cop and escape. III:167–69, V:268, V:321, VI:157, VII:405, VII:682