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Guide to New York
Lower end o f M anhattan w ith fin a n cia l d is tric t and Battery Park in the foreground. Ferries to Statue o f Liberty and to Staten Island leave from docks adjoining Battery Park.
New York City
New York City is composed of five boroughs or political di visions: Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island (Richmond). But the borough of Manhattan is New York City to most visitors. Almost two million people live within its 22 square miles. Most New York City visitors rarely venture be yond Manhattan which is the city’s entertainment and cultural center. The theater district, financial district, major museums and art galleries, the big department stores, most of the famous restaurants, nightclubs, and hotels are in Manhattan. The Bronx is known to baseball fans as home of the worldfamous New York Yankees— the Bronx Bombers. Its population of about 1.5 million is spread over almost 43 square miles. Brooklyn achieved a degree of fame as home of the old-time baseball Dodgers. It also is known as the City of Churches. Of the more than 3,500 churches within its borders, about half serve Protestant denominations. There are about 1,200 Jewish syna gogues and more than 400 Catholic churches. This sprawling borough consists mostly of middle-class private residences and apartment houses, over 850,000 dwelling units in all. Queens was the site of the 1964 World’s Fair. Within its bor ders are both LaGuardia and Kennedy International airports. Sometimes referred to as the bedroom of New York, Queens is the largest of the five boroughs. Staten Island (Richmond County) at one time was hardly con sidered a part of New York City. Until the opening of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge between Brooklyn and Staten Island, its main links to Manhattan and Brooklyn were the famous Staten Island Ferry and the 69th St Ferry, respectively. Within the is land’s 60 square miles is the highest point in New York City, Todt Hill, which is 410 feet above sea level.
M eetin g Sites
All of the various social, scientific, and business meetings during the ADA-FDI combined session are scheduled to take place in Manhattan. Both headquarters hotels, the Waldorf-Astoria and Park Sheraton, are located in what generally is referred to as Midtown Manhattan, a section located between 42nd and 59th Streets, and Second and Seventh Avenues. The New York Coli seum, at Columbus Circle (Eighth Ave and 59th St), overlooks Central Park and is close to Midtown Manhattan. Sightseeing
What to see and what to do while in Manhattan can present a problem because there are so many possibilities from which to choose. Most visitors first want to see what has become a worldfamous symbol of the city— the Empire State Building. Rocke feller Center, the United Nations complex, Central Park, the Statue of Liberty, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of Natural History, Times Square, the theater district, and financial district are also great attractions. The shops on Fifth Avenue also are of particular interest to most visitors.
BUILDINGS
The Empire State Building is at 350 Fifth Ave, between 33rd and 34th Streets. Its observation deck, nearly a quarter of a mile above street level, is open daily from 9:30 am to midnight. An express elevator reaches the 86th floor in less than a minute and reaching the top, the 102nd floor, takes just a few seconds more. P R E L IM IN A R Y PROGRAM ■ 311
On a clear day it is possible to see as far as Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, some 50 miles away. Lectures, pointing out various landmarks, are given every hour on the hour. About 16,000 per sons work in this building which includes two million square feet of rentable space. Rockefeller Center is a 15-building complex located between 48th and 52nd Streets and Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Visitors often are more interested in the Center’s outdoor gardens, which are filled with flowers, shrubs, and trees, than in the buildings them selves. Underneath the gardens and buildings are arcades with shops, restaurants, and a variety of displays. The 15-building com plex includes among others, the 70-story RCA Building, British Empire Building, La Maison Française, International Building, and Radio City Music Hall. National Broadcasting Company, one of the nation’s major radio and television networks, has its main offices here. Tours of NBC facilities are available, as are tours of the entire Rockefeller Center complex. The United Nations Headquarters is at 45th St and First Ave. If you are anywhere between 42nd St and 48th St from First Ave to the East River, technically you have left the United States. This land, about 18 acres in all, belongs to the United Nations and is under its control, but no visa is required to enter or leave. The eye-catching glass and steel 39-story Secretariat building houses the UN’s executive and administrative offices. The small er General Assembly Building includes an ultramodern confer ence hall which is dramatically decorated with artwork from 11 different countries. Passageways connect the General Assembly Building with the Conference Building in which meetings of the Security Council, Economic and Social Council, and Trustee ship Council are held. Most areas within the buildings are normal ly closed to the public. The various chambers can be seen by joining one of the UN guided tours or by arranging to attend an official meeting for which tickets are issued at the Information Desk on a first-come, first-served basis. The General Assembly is likely to be in session during the ADA-FDI session.
MUSEUMS
What many persons consider to be one of the greatest museums in the Western Hemisphere, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is on Fifth Ave, between 80th and 84th Streets. Although its 17 acres of floor space include 234 exhibition galleries, there is room to display only one fourth of its almost half million art treasures at any one time. This 4-block-Iong edifice includes among its collections American paintings and sculpture, arms and armor, Egyptian art, European decorative arts, drawings and paintings, far Eastern art, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art, musical in struments, prints, and a Junior Museum. Included among its services are: art and book shops, lectures, courses and concerts, a library, publications, and special exhibitions. A free floor plan is available at the Information Desk to help visitors locate spe cific exhibits. Perhaps the most delightful place to visit in the city is the American Museum of Natural History on Central Park West, from 77th to 81st Streets. This highly respected scientific insti tution has nearly 12 acres of exhibition halls which occupy four floors. The 58 exhibit areas are organized into sections on birds, dinosaurs, insects, mammals, man, minerals and gems, ocean life, oil geology, and a planetarium. There is no charge for admis sion to the museum which is open from 10 to 5, Monday through Saturday and I to 5 on Sunday. At the northernmost tip of Manhattan is an extraordinary med ieval museum, The Cloisters. Resembling a fortified monastery of the Middle Ages, the museum is atop a bluff in the middle of Fort Tryon Park offering the visitor a spectacular view across
PARKS
Almost one fifth of New York City has been given over to parklands and playgrounds— more than 1,300 parks in all. The most famous probably is Central Park in the heart of Manhattan extending from 59th St to I 10th St between Fifth Ave and Cen tral Park West. Many lakes, ponds, monuments, and fountains are scattered throughout the 840 acres of meadows and wood lands. About 80 varieties of birds and animals, including bears, lions, apes, sea lions, and other large mammals can be seen in the zoo. Admission to the zoo buildings, which are open from I 1 to 5 every day of the year, is free. Several Revolutionary War forts still stand at the north end of the park. Cleopatra’s Needle, an Egyptian obelisk which is more than 3,500 years old, is lo cated near 84th St. The park is flanked by some of the most fash ionable apartment houses in the city. The Statue of Liberty, probably the most famous monument in the entire world, is on Liberty Island. Boats leave for the Is land from Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan every hour daily from 9 am to 4 pm. The trip to and from the Island takes about 25 minutes each way. The simplest and quickest way to get to Battery Park is by subway. Take the IRT Broadway-7th Ave line to South Ferry Station from Columbus Circle Station at Broadway and 59th St. The entrance to Columbus Circle Sta tion is just east of the New York Coliseum. The history of the statue is clearly presented in a book which is published by the National Park Service of the US Department of Interior and is sold on the Island. 312 ■ JADA, Vol. 79, August 1969
Landm ark o f New York is Em pire State Building. Its height o f 1.472 feet makes it the talles t bu ilding in the world. View from the top, by n ight or day, is splendid.
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St, and between Pearl St and Greenwich St at the southern tip of Manhattan. This is the nerve center of commercial power in the city and, perhaps, the nation as well. Here are located the main offices of many of the important banks of the country, the big insurance companies, the stock and commodity exchanges. Other points of interest in the city include the Museum of Mod ern Art, I 1W 53rd St, the New York Historical Society Museum, 170 Central Park West (corner of 77th St), and the Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave (corner of 104th St). Transportation
Getting around Manhattan is a relatively simple matter as soon as you become familiar with the street pattern and public transpor tation facilities. An important fact to remember is that there is no logical con sistency to the north-south street numbering system. For example, 100 Fifth Ave is at 15th St, while 100 Seventh Ave is at 17th St and 100 Park Ave is at 40th St. The following guide may be of some help. The numbers next to the names of the avenues are streets so that, for example, 700 Madison Ave is at 63rd St.
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Isolated on a h ill in Fort Tryon Park, The Cloisters looks like a fo rtifie d monastery. It is a p a rt of the old w orld transplanted to the new where the lover o f m edieval a rt w ill fin d un riva le d collections.
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the Hudson River. The museum consists of the restored cloisters of five French monasteries dating from the 12th through the 15th centuries. Perhaps the most remarkable possessions of the museum are the beautiful, intricate Unicorn Tapestries, considered to be the greatest late-medieval tapestries in existence. They probably were made between 1499 and 1514, and are full of delicate forms and vibrant colors.
CHURCHES
New York’s imposing places of worship include the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, I 12th St and Amsterdam Ave; St. Pat rick’s Cathedral, Fifth Ave at 50th St; and Temple Emanu-El, Fifth Ave at 65th St, the largest synagogue built in modern times. Times Square, sometimes referred to as the “Crossroads of the World,” extends along Broadway and Seventh Ave, from about 40th St to 52nd St. Noise, color, movement, and crowds typify Times Square any time, day or night. People from every econom ic level and with every kind of taste constantly mill about this entertainment mecca. Times Square is where you will find the New York City Information Center.
THEATERS
Times Square is encompassed by the theater district, which is bounded by 40th St and 59th St, between Sixth Ave and a little beyond Eighth Ave, where almost all the legitimate Broad way theaters and many of the large movie houses are located. Almost all of the publishers of popular songs are also located in this district. As a group, these publishers are often referred to as Tin Pan Alley. The financial district is located between the Battery and Fulton 314 ■ JADA, Vol. 79, August 1969
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The subway system is extensive, inexpensive, and one of the fastest and most convenient forms of transportation. If the visitor avoids the extremely crowded morning and late afternoon rush hours, checks the transportation maps located in each car and at each station, and consults the subway guards, he will find the subway system relatively simple to use. Though designated as three different lines, all New York subways are owned and oper ated by the city and connect with each other at designated trans fer points. Buses are convenient for short trips and operate on all northsouth avenues and on principal east-west streets. Since bus lines are operated by different companies, there is a difference in fares charged on the various routes. More than 12,000 licensed taxicabs operate in the city and are for hire when the light atop the cab is lit. Strictly enforced regu lations compel drivers to take occupants wherever requested in the city and drivers cannot charge more than the amount record ed on the meter. The average tip is 15% of the amount shown on the meter and the minimum customarily is 25 cents. Licensed drivers can rent a car from any of a number of car rental agencies by the hour or day, with or without a driver. Most hotels will provide information on reputable agencies. W eather and Tim e
A phone call to WEather 6-1212 will provide information on cur rent and expected weather conditions in New York City. To get the exact time to the second, phone ME 7-1212.
New York City
New York City is composed of five boroughs or political di visions: Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island (Richmond). But the borough of Manhattan is New York City to most visitors. Almost two million people live within its 22 square miles. Most New York City visitors rarely venture be yond Manhattan which is the city’s entertainment and cultural center. The theater district, financial district, major museums and art galleries, the big department stores, most of the famous restaurants, nightclubs, and hotels are in Manhattan. The Bronx is known to baseball fans as home of the worldfamous New York Yankees— the Bronx Bombers. Its population of about 1.5 million is spread over almost 43 square miles. Brooklyn achieved a degree of fame as home of the old-time baseball Dodgers. It also is known as the City of Churches. Of the more than 3,500 churches within its borders, about half serve Protestant denominations. There are about 1,200 Jewish syna gogues and more than 400 Catholic churches. This sprawling borough consists mostly of middle-class private residences and apartment houses, over 850,000 dwelling units in all. Queens was the site of the 1964 World’s Fair. Within its bor ders are both LaGuardia and Kennedy International airports. Sometimes referred to as the bedroom of New York, Queens is the largest of the five boroughs. Staten Island (Richmond County) at one time was hardly con sidered a part of New York City. Until the opening of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge between Brooklyn and Staten Island, its main links to Manhattan and Brooklyn were the famous Staten Island Ferry and the 69th St Ferry, respectively. Within the is land’s 60 square miles is the highest point in New York City, Todt Hill, which is 410 feet above sea level.
M eetin g Sites
All of the various social, scientific, and business meetings during the ADA-FDI combined session are scheduled to take place in Manhattan. Both headquarters hotels, the Waldorf-Astoria and Park Sheraton, are located in what generally is referred to as Midtown Manhattan, a section located between 42nd and 59th Streets, and Second and Seventh Avenues. The New York Coli seum, at Columbus Circle (Eighth Ave and 59th St), overlooks Central Park and is close to Midtown Manhattan. Sightseeing
What to see and what to do while in Manhattan can present a problem because there are so many possibilities from which to choose. Most visitors first want to see what has become a worldfamous symbol of the city— the Empire State Building. Rocke feller Center, the United Nations complex, Central Park, the Statue of Liberty, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of Natural History, Times Square, the theater district, and financial district are also great attractions. The shops on Fifth Avenue also are of particular interest to most visitors.
BUILDINGS
The Empire State Building is at 350 Fifth Ave, between 33rd and 34th Streets. Its observation deck, nearly a quarter of a mile above street level, is open daily from 9:30 am to midnight. An express elevator reaches the 86th floor in less than a minute and reaching the top, the 102nd floor, takes just a few seconds more. P R E L IM IN A R Y PROGRAM ■ 311
On a clear day it is possible to see as far as Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, some 50 miles away. Lectures, pointing out various landmarks, are given every hour on the hour. About 16,000 per sons work in this building which includes two million square feet of rentable space. Rockefeller Center is a 15-building complex located between 48th and 52nd Streets and Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Visitors often are more interested in the Center’s outdoor gardens, which are filled with flowers, shrubs, and trees, than in the buildings them selves. Underneath the gardens and buildings are arcades with shops, restaurants, and a variety of displays. The 15-building com plex includes among others, the 70-story RCA Building, British Empire Building, La Maison Française, International Building, and Radio City Music Hall. National Broadcasting Company, one of the nation’s major radio and television networks, has its main offices here. Tours of NBC facilities are available, as are tours of the entire Rockefeller Center complex. The United Nations Headquarters is at 45th St and First Ave. If you are anywhere between 42nd St and 48th St from First Ave to the East River, technically you have left the United States. This land, about 18 acres in all, belongs to the United Nations and is under its control, but no visa is required to enter or leave. The eye-catching glass and steel 39-story Secretariat building houses the UN’s executive and administrative offices. The small er General Assembly Building includes an ultramodern confer ence hall which is dramatically decorated with artwork from 11 different countries. Passageways connect the General Assembly Building with the Conference Building in which meetings of the Security Council, Economic and Social Council, and Trustee ship Council are held. Most areas within the buildings are normal ly closed to the public. The various chambers can be seen by joining one of the UN guided tours or by arranging to attend an official meeting for which tickets are issued at the Information Desk on a first-come, first-served basis. The General Assembly is likely to be in session during the ADA-FDI session.
MUSEUMS
What many persons consider to be one of the greatest museums in the Western Hemisphere, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is on Fifth Ave, between 80th and 84th Streets. Although its 17 acres of floor space include 234 exhibition galleries, there is room to display only one fourth of its almost half million art treasures at any one time. This 4-block-Iong edifice includes among its collections American paintings and sculpture, arms and armor, Egyptian art, European decorative arts, drawings and paintings, far Eastern art, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art, musical in struments, prints, and a Junior Museum. Included among its services are: art and book shops, lectures, courses and concerts, a library, publications, and special exhibitions. A free floor plan is available at the Information Desk to help visitors locate spe cific exhibits. Perhaps the most delightful place to visit in the city is the American Museum of Natural History on Central Park West, from 77th to 81st Streets. This highly respected scientific insti tution has nearly 12 acres of exhibition halls which occupy four floors. The 58 exhibit areas are organized into sections on birds, dinosaurs, insects, mammals, man, minerals and gems, ocean life, oil geology, and a planetarium. There is no charge for admis sion to the museum which is open from 10 to 5, Monday through Saturday and I to 5 on Sunday. At the northernmost tip of Manhattan is an extraordinary med ieval museum, The Cloisters. Resembling a fortified monastery of the Middle Ages, the museum is atop a bluff in the middle of Fort Tryon Park offering the visitor a spectacular view across
PARKS
Almost one fifth of New York City has been given over to parklands and playgrounds— more than 1,300 parks in all. The most famous probably is Central Park in the heart of Manhattan extending from 59th St to I 10th St between Fifth Ave and Cen tral Park West. Many lakes, ponds, monuments, and fountains are scattered throughout the 840 acres of meadows and wood lands. About 80 varieties of birds and animals, including bears, lions, apes, sea lions, and other large mammals can be seen in the zoo. Admission to the zoo buildings, which are open from I 1 to 5 every day of the year, is free. Several Revolutionary War forts still stand at the north end of the park. Cleopatra’s Needle, an Egyptian obelisk which is more than 3,500 years old, is lo cated near 84th St. The park is flanked by some of the most fash ionable apartment houses in the city. The Statue of Liberty, probably the most famous monument in the entire world, is on Liberty Island. Boats leave for the Is land from Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan every hour daily from 9 am to 4 pm. The trip to and from the Island takes about 25 minutes each way. The simplest and quickest way to get to Battery Park is by subway. Take the IRT Broadway-7th Ave line to South Ferry Station from Columbus Circle Station at Broadway and 59th St. The entrance to Columbus Circle Sta tion is just east of the New York Coliseum. The history of the statue is clearly presented in a book which is published by the National Park Service of the US Department of Interior and is sold on the Island. 312 ■ JADA, Vol. 79, August 1969
Landm ark o f New York is Em pire State Building. Its height o f 1.472 feet makes it the talles t bu ilding in the world. View from the top, by n ight or day, is splendid.
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St, and between Pearl St and Greenwich St at the southern tip of Manhattan. This is the nerve center of commercial power in the city and, perhaps, the nation as well. Here are located the main offices of many of the important banks of the country, the big insurance companies, the stock and commodity exchanges. Other points of interest in the city include the Museum of Mod ern Art, I 1W 53rd St, the New York Historical Society Museum, 170 Central Park West (corner of 77th St), and the Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave (corner of 104th St). Transportation
Getting around Manhattan is a relatively simple matter as soon as you become familiar with the street pattern and public transpor tation facilities. An important fact to remember is that there is no logical con sistency to the north-south street numbering system. For example, 100 Fifth Ave is at 15th St, while 100 Seventh Ave is at 17th St and 100 Park Ave is at 40th St. The following guide may be of some help. The numbers next to the names of the avenues are streets so that, for example, 700 Madison Ave is at 63rd St.
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Isolated on a h ill in Fort Tryon Park, The Cloisters looks like a fo rtifie d monastery. It is a p a rt of the old w orld transplanted to the new where the lover o f m edieval a rt w ill fin d un riva le d collections.
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the Hudson River. The museum consists of the restored cloisters of five French monasteries dating from the 12th through the 15th centuries. Perhaps the most remarkable possessions of the museum are the beautiful, intricate Unicorn Tapestries, considered to be the greatest late-medieval tapestries in existence. They probably were made between 1499 and 1514, and are full of delicate forms and vibrant colors.
CHURCHES
New York’s imposing places of worship include the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, I 12th St and Amsterdam Ave; St. Pat rick’s Cathedral, Fifth Ave at 50th St; and Temple Emanu-El, Fifth Ave at 65th St, the largest synagogue built in modern times. Times Square, sometimes referred to as the “Crossroads of the World,” extends along Broadway and Seventh Ave, from about 40th St to 52nd St. Noise, color, movement, and crowds typify Times Square any time, day or night. People from every econom ic level and with every kind of taste constantly mill about this entertainment mecca. Times Square is where you will find the New York City Information Center.
THEATERS
Times Square is encompassed by the theater district, which is bounded by 40th St and 59th St, between Sixth Ave and a little beyond Eighth Ave, where almost all the legitimate Broad way theaters and many of the large movie houses are located. Almost all of the publishers of popular songs are also located in this district. As a group, these publishers are often referred to as Tin Pan Alley. The financial district is located between the Battery and Fulton 314 ■ JADA, Vol. 79, August 1969
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The subway system is extensive, inexpensive, and one of the fastest and most convenient forms of transportation. If the visitor avoids the extremely crowded morning and late afternoon rush hours, checks the transportation maps located in each car and at each station, and consults the subway guards, he will find the subway system relatively simple to use. Though designated as three different lines, all New York subways are owned and oper ated by the city and connect with each other at designated trans fer points. Buses are convenient for short trips and operate on all northsouth avenues and on principal east-west streets. Since bus lines are operated by different companies, there is a difference in fares charged on the various routes. More than 12,000 licensed taxicabs operate in the city and are for hire when the light atop the cab is lit. Strictly enforced regu lations compel drivers to take occupants wherever requested in the city and drivers cannot charge more than the amount record ed on the meter. The average tip is 15% of the amount shown on the meter and the minimum customarily is 25 cents. Licensed drivers can rent a car from any of a number of car rental agencies by the hour or day, with or without a driver. Most hotels will provide information on reputable agencies. W eather and Tim e
A phone call to WEather 6-1212 will provide information on cur rent and expected weather conditions in New York City. To get the exact time to the second, phone ME 7-1212.