Richard Sandler, the Boy From Queens Who Fell in Love With Times Square

Richard Sandler, the Boy From Queens Who Fell in Love With Times Square

Richard Sandler's 1999 film "The Gods of Times Square" opens with the heads of zombie-like commuters, eyelids drooping, as their subway cars lurch forward. Teenagers kiss against the metal poles. On the platform, a man in a suit with a briefcase suddenly dashes through the turnstile, and a nun with a limp drags a metal chair across the concrete. Then she sits at the exit, the 42nd Street–Times Square sign hanging behind her, staring blankly ahea…