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Show il'lP Wm Exploring Sew York: The world's busiest corner is not 42nd street and Times Square- it's 34th street and B'way. ... In St. Ann's churchyard is the grave of Lewis Morris. He's the only New Yorker who inked the Declaration of Independence. ... An old milestone mile-stone (marking the distance to city hall) still can be found on St. Nicholas Nich-olas avenue. It once was used as a guide for stagecoaches. . . . More crimes have taken place on the Main Stem (between 47th and 9th streets) than in any other spot in town. . . . Our town is earthquake-proof: earthquake-proof: No quakes have occurred in New York or are likely to occur. Most of the Main Stem's mas-da mas-da inferno Is not generated by legit theaters or film palaces. The majority of the electric slgnery advertises eateries. Assessed valuation of Broadway's real estate Is a mere three billion bux. . . . City hall still has the mahogany ma-hogany desk that Washington used to pen his Inaugural Address. . . . When you pass 309 Bleeclfer street say a little prayer. Tom Paine lived there. . . . Waterfront workers have names for various piers. They usually are christened after women. wom-en. .. . Despite the surrounding poverty, the gayest section of town is the Puerto Rican part of Harlem on Saturday night. . . . Cliffs flanking flank-ing the Hudson are made of volcanic rock. Paris of thi Statue of Liberty wert exhibited in various sections of the city before they were assembled. Incidentally, Inciden-tally, you know that Miss Wonderful carries a torch in her right hand. Know what she holds in her left.' It's a book representing Law inscribed with th date July 4, 1776, to signify liberty based on law. One of the most striking illustrations illustra-tions of the city's cosmopolitan reputation rep-utation is a church on 2nd avenue. Services are conducted in English, Chinese and Italian. . . . Moham medans worship at a mosque on Powers street. . . . Since there isn't a Buddhist temple, devout Buddhists in N. Y, worship in their own homes. ... St. John's cathedral hasn't the usual steel framework of most huge edifices. It is made completely of stone. . . . Brooklyn has many more places of worship than any other borough. Crooked diplomatic deals are not cooked up at No. 10 Downing Down-ing street In the Big Burg just dinners. It's the address of an apartment bouse. Central park is the result of a work relief project. By the way, this park isn't the city's largest. Peiham Bay park has the biggest patch of greenery. . . . Despite all the overcrowding, there is enough room In the Big Burg for 117 parks. . . . The Player's club has preserved pre-served the room where Edwin Booth passed away. Even the book Booth was reading Is open to the page where he left it when death came. . . . Fifth avenue is one of the town's newer thorofares. That street was born about a century ago. . . . New York City owns and operates a fleet of ferryboats. Speed of the swiftest ferries is only 18 m.p.h. Why Sew York's skyscrapers pop the orbs of hinterlanders: Our town has 40 buildings that are 36 stories high or higher. But there are only 20 such skyscrapers in the rest of the U. S, . . . Before the word skyscraper was popularized the burg's lofty towers were known as cloud-rakers. , . . There are laws regulating the shape of skyscrapers. sky-scrapers. It's mammoth port is what made New York a Big Town. . . . Several Sev-eral hundred Indians still make N. Y. their home. . . . There once was a gallows in what now is peaceful peace-ful Washington Square. . . . Hart's island prison has dormitories Instead of cells. ... The Bronx has Its own flfS. . . . There are two concert halls and an art gallery at the Bar-bizon-Plaza. . . . Customs ofllcers state that one of the lucrative smuggling smug-gling rackets Is in watch movements. move-ments. . . . Four of the five bor-our.hs bor-our.hs are either islands or parts of islands. A century ago you could purchase pur-chase a lot on Madison avenue fo- $480. Now you can buy gowns there that cost more. This city's budg Is larger than any state's. . . . New York City's borough presidents earn higher salaries sal-aries than U. S. senators. ... An ancient house on Pearl street has Its only stairway on the outside of the building. ... New York is the "most modern town" but there are almost 200,000 homes in it that lack bathrooms. ... New York harbor was carved by the slow retreat of vast glaciers. ... New York had horsedrawn firewagons until the 1920s. ... New York has 716,065 buildings. (I counted 'em). If you pierced the walls of the Lafayette street subway station water would gush forth. It's surrounded sur-rounded by an underground spring. The following explains why Big Towners never view every sector of the city: New York has J.000 miles of streets. |
