What is "Center 42"?

Question

In the Rolling Stones song, "Undercover of the Night", Mick reffers to "Center 42" twice...In the beginning, "Hear the screams of Center 42 Loud enough to bust your brains out " and in the middle "All the young girls they have got the blues
They're heading on back to Center 42 ". I did a search on it but it came up blank. What is "Center 42"? If not what, then where is "Center 42"?

Answer 1

It might be something he made up. Songwriters do that sometimes when they need a rhyme. That said...

"I'm not saying I nicked it, but this song was heavily influenced by William Burroughs' Cities Of The Red Night, a free-wheeling novel about political and sexual repression. It combines a number of different references to what was going down in Argentina and Chile. I think it's really good but it wasn't particularly successful at the time because songs that deal overtly with politics never are that successful, for some reason. "

- Mick Jagger, 1993

Answer 2

Center 42