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Not even a year ago, impregnable crowds and stained-costumed Elmos and wannabe John Mulaneys with their three-by-five-laminated-card invitations to comedy-club open-mic nights had made Times Square one of the most irritating, nerve-wracking places in the Western world. What I wouldn’t give for my nerves to be a little more wracked now that the legendary bow-tie...