The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-11
LITTLE THINGS I NEVER KNEW
 ABOUT THE BIG TOWN

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 For some unknown reason William Street has had eleven other names The chimes sounded by the huge clock atop the Met Life h. surance Bldg is a measure by Han oel .. The underground passage way at the National Arts Club was built by a politician to escape pro- cess servers There are five stories beneath the Hotel Commo- dore The house at 2 State street was built in 1794. It was tenanted by sWells MacDougal Alley is still lit by gas lamps as a senti- mental gesture. The gas company provides the illumination gratis :. The metal treads in the sidewalk leading to the Assnt for the Blind on 59th Street guide the sightless The glass mosaic atop the Sixth Avenue entrance to the RIGA ed1f1ce is an amazing work of art. Made of million bits of glass in 2SO different shades of color |. The whackiest bit of geography finds west t4h Street and West 11th Street on the same corner.
 The Marble Cemetery on Second Avenue hasn't any tombstones .. Broadway Alley, not far from the worlds most famous street, is a neighborhood where tenement dwellers go to hang their wash '. The worlds smallest bit of real estate is at Seventh Avenue and Christopher street. It measures about two feet, and slab on it reads: Property of the Hess Es- tate. Which has never been dedi- cated for public purposes" There is house on Pearl Street built with the stairway on the outside |. The reason Broadway bends at 11th street Is that when The Main Stem was extended, the farm owner there refused to permit road to be cut through his property . The han som cab is named after Joseph AloySius Hanson, a London archi- tect, who invented it.
 The caves in Inwood Hill Park in
 
 choice hideaways for lovers . One of the towns few blacksmith shops is located in the shadow Of sWanky liturgy Hill Most unusual sub way station is the one at 19oth. Carved out of a cliff Central Park was built as a relief work project during the 1857 depression, in case you had the idea that WPA was something new ,. The reason the rails are broken off at the top (around Bowling Green) is that that when soldiers tore down a statue of George III, it fell on the fence causing the damage that may be seen today The city's most shivery spot: The underground passageWay that leads from the East River to the morgue .. Most fantastic legend of Chinatown That & half million in gold is hid den in the walls of the house at No. Doyers street - and although no gold has ever been found there the fable persists.
 Manhattan isn't all skyscrapers On upper Tenth Avenue there is a large farm . The finest water of all 6 in New York The dusty tablet on the building at IT Maiden Lane marks the site of theater which was George Washington s favorite amusement spot .. Several of the lower East Side tenements were built before the Civil War . Grammercy Park, swankiest in town was once a swamp A tablet at 90 Pearl Street colnmemorates fire that took place there. Is that some thing to honor? The house at 34th and Park hasn't a number. Be- cause its former number was trans ferred to another building and the durate owner refused to accepet a new one Poverty stricken Har- lem contains some of the towns most valuable property The prison on Harts Island has no cells =. Virgins Lane was changed to Maiden Lane by bluenoses.
 Bulls Hotel on First Avenue is the most exclusive in its way. Rents rooms only to farmers .. There is a lighthouse in the city-at the foot of lS0th street and the Hudson . The slice of original New York ter ritory Is preserved in Bronx Park The deserted Peace House on Fifth avenue near 10th Street. built after the last war to prevent this one The one movie house on West 48th Street has the most romantic private loges The Broadway shooting galleries and penny-in- the-slot spots which have Japanese help Star and Gar ter's" cheesecake art Qeg photos) In front of the Music Box Theater on 45th Street. It's against the law to display the same undraped like uesses on And Street The New York Public Library not only loans books-but pictures The Roxy rheater, one of the first big theaters, can accommodate 5000 people in its lobby.
 The La COnga doorman (JoSeph &elsey) was an operatic tenor at the Kings Theater, Budapest. He appeared in early films with Joan Crawford and John Gilbert :. The Murray Hill Hotel, built in the long