Cities virtually shut down between noon and 2pm or 3pm, except markets and restaur-ants serving lunch-hour crowds.

LEAD: The warm and sunny weather yesterday brought a lunch-hour crowd to South Street Seaport.

Attract the lunch-hour crowd to the charming old market area that is now mostly cafes and boutiques.

But it was too late to salvage the lunch-hour crowd for many restaurant owners, some of whom estimated that they would lose as much as $1,500.

A teenage couple opened fire on the lunch-hour crowd.

Speaking of the problem of drug abuse in Hartford, he told a lunch-hour crowd of hundreds.

An example is "Avenue of the Americas": A cat and mouse were lapping milk From the same saucer For the benefit of the lunch-hour crowd.

The place had begun to fill up with the lunch-hour crowd and the noise and the smells nauseated me.

Two gunmen opened fire in a busy restaurant today, killing four men and wounding a fifth in front of a stunned lunch-hour crowd.

The accident occurred at an area busy with a lunch-hour crowd of pedestrians, and at an intersection that neighborhood residents described as particularly hazardous.