It is a strange fact, but it is true, that prostitutes often select young men whom they see in front of pool rooms and cigar stores and actually invite them to become their pimps and share the proceeds of their business. A young boy about eighteen years of age was standing near the entrance of a pool room on Second Avenue one hot afternoon in August, 1912, jauntily puffing a cigarette as a stranger passed with a man who had lived in the neighborhood many years. "See that kid?" said the man. "A young prostitute on the avenue has picked him out for her pimp. They grew up together and both have gone on the bum. She was 'lined up' about a year ago by a gang that 'hangs out' in a cigar store on East 14th Street. Since then she has been a regular prostitute." There is another group of miscellaneous places, different from those referred to above, namely, the natural channels through which the varied life of a great city passes. These are freely used by the prostitute. Attention is called to them simply to emphasize the fact that wherever groups of people meet for innocent pleasure or for business, there the prostitute lingers to ply her trade. Such places include subway and railway stations, hotel lobbies, entrances to department stores, ferry slips, and post office buildings. Prostitutes find these crowded thoroughfares excellent centers in which to solicit or to make "dates." Pimps and procurers also frequent such places to "pick up" adventurous girls who are alone or in pairs, out for pleasure or excitement.[86] (3) THE STREETS The streets of Manhattan are openly used by prostitutes for soliciting. During the period of this investigation, street walking has been most conspicuous in certain localities which may be roughly described as follows: Broadway, from West 27th to West 68th, and the side streets from West 26th to West 64th; Sixth Avenue, from West 16th to West 45th, and the side streets from West 25th to West 31st; Seventh Avenue, from West 24th to West 42nd; Columbus Avenue, from West 59th to West 66th; Columbus and Eighth Avenues, from West 99th to West 125th; Second Avenue, from East 8th to 9th, and between East 12th and East 14th; Third Avenue, from East 9th to East 28th, and from East 99th to East 137th, and the side streets to Lexington Avenue; Irving Place, from East 14th to East 15th; Houston Street, on the lower East Side around Allen and Forsythe Streets.