The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-05
THINGS FEW NEW WORKERS
KNnVU AnnUYT ~

KNOW ABOUT N. Y.
What looks like a palace at Park
Ave. and 51st is merely the uppity
Racquet and Tennis Clubhouse E.
There is a Park Ave. penthouse that
has garden with 30-foot water
fall Radio City's studios are
built like boxes within boxes, sep
arate rooms within rooms, raised
from the building floors by steel
springs covered with felt in order
to improve acoustics. Imagine go
ing through all that trouble for soap
operas The Music Hall Rock
cites can live comfortably without
ever leaving the theater. They work
there, can eat in its restaurants, and
have luxurious dormitory atop the
theater to sleep in Talk about
tact. At one Park Ave. place, the
headwaiter never bows to patron,
if he is with a woman not his wife.
Thirty-two years after Column
bus discovered America the strip OF
land now known as Manhattan was
discovered by Giovanni da Vera
zanno. There isn't even street
named after him {. What many
sightseers think is romantic and
picturesque in Chinatown are mere
ly rundown tenements. The city's
worst slums are located there :.
Our fighting Mayor LaGuardia has
installed a punching bag in one of
the City Hall rooms Only SIX
cities in Germany contain more
Germans than Yorkville . Many
of the Oriental herbs sold for high
prices In exclusive food shops are
grown in Staten Island :. If you
want q Whit of old New York, go
to the Murray Hill hotel. AS old
fashioned as a handle-bar mustache.
Ten times as many people visit
New York during a year as live IN
the metropolis AS far as earth
quakeS are concerned, the Big City
is the safest part of the world
Only 1000 of the $4,000 Chinese in
New York live in Chinatown :.
This gives you an idea how cos
mopolitan our burg is: 1t has three
Arabic daily newspapers :. The
Chinese maintain school for their
children in Mott st. . The mer-
riest locale in town is the Puerto
Rican section of Harlem on Satur-
day night >. There are laws regu-
lating the shape of our skyscrapers
The opening of the Brooklyn
Bridge was celebrated as national
holiday. For IL years, while the
bridge was being built, the chief
engineer had lain partially par
alyzed. The first lady to drive
across it was his wife, who acted
as his intermediary throughout the
tedious task.
What's become Of the Chinese
Tongs? They're still in existence
but are Just peaceful benevolent So
cieties i. There used to be q lake
where Tombs prison now stands
What are now Front, Water ana
South streets were all covered with
water years ago, and Broad Street
was a canal ;. Before the famed
Staten Island ferry came into ex.
istence passengers were roWeo
acroS the Hudson The folly OF
isolation isn't anything new. Peace
full, defenseless redskins in New
York were invaded and licked by
Indians from New Jersey. They LETT
themselves defenseless. because
they believed the Hudson River
would keep them safe F.. During
the 18th century Wall Street was
the favorite hangout for pirates
Make your own wisecrack.
The front pages of the Big City's
first newspapers were devoted 10
want ads There are more than
Is religious denominations IN our
city enjoying the fruits OF democ-
racy's tolerance . New York be-
came a big town because it is
great seaport. Without the attrac-
ton Of the port New Yrok would
be lust another small town :. The
only traces left of the original in
habitants of the big city are the
Indian names of the various towns
Manhattan (Which is Indian for a
place of beauty, Manhasset, Rock
away. Setauket, Patchogue ana
Montauk The first battle be-
tween sub and battleship TOOK
place during the Revolutionary
War near Governors Island.
This is how the Astors became
New Yorks biggest real estate OPP
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