The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-19
Walter WincheII
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CT stuff The house at Park Ave and 34th St., hasn't number. It was originally One Park Ave, but when that number was transferred to another building the owner re- fused to accept new one |. Maiden Lane was once known as Virgins Path-until bluenoSes ob- jeeted .. Most of the BoWery bar bershopS have special tattooing de- partments Broadway Alley is many blocks away from it's famous namesake It is just rubbish Strewn alley used to hang the neighborhood's washing.
 Although they call him an Amer ican editor and patriot, Arthur Brisbane is the only columniSt (We know of) who has monument" in his honor. On the 5th Avenue side of Central Park in the hundreds. He lived in an apartment house in the sector When we pass 1t every middle-of- -the-night cruising about the city, Damon Runyon and this department mentally dotf our lids to Brisbane . When he was my editor he was always pleas ant to me" I said to Damon last night Me, too he nodded.
 The gas company furnishes the light gratis for MacDougal Alley $ gas lamp illumination -. There IS plaque marking O. Henry's pet table in an 18th St. bar .. A build ing on Waverly Place has two sides on one street and one side on two streets. Figger 1t out for yourself Sutton Place has a charming nook: A tree-llned prl- vate cobbled road Pearl Street has an ancient house with an out side stairway Lower End Ave nue contains Manhattan's smallest piece of real eState-lt is two 1eet long and is covered with mosaic bearing the words: Property of the Hess Estate which has never been dedicated for public purposes
 ChinatoWn's most fantastic legend: Buried under one Of the houses in Doyers Street is S35 ,000,- 900 in gold :. The house where Mark Twain once lived. Near Wash ington Square and Fifth Ave.
 A statue erected i'll honor Of a dog CBalto) can be found in Centra Park An 18th Century clap board building Is surrounded by modernistic tenements on York Ave It was once part of a large tarn The fire tower at Mt. Morrl Park is one of the last relics of tht old Volunteer Fire Dept. Ont fact underlines Harlem's disgrace ful living conditions: More thai 4O0O people live in single bloci
 About 50 percent of the tene ments condemned as unfit for hu man habitation after the Civil Wa are still standing . New Yorki shortest street is Edgar St. It hash. a single number.
 How the Little Church Arount the Corner was christened: A cen tury ago, a curate at nearn, church was asked to officiate a the funeral of a famed actor. H
 refused. adding that perhaps tn little church around the corne might be willing to serve"
 The tree standing at l3lst St. an
 7th Ave. is Harlem's Tree Of Hope It is supposed to bring good luck t
 any person who rubs his bac
 against it. Oh, sure .. A strang epitaph is inscribed on a tomb stone in the Trinity Church cem
 etery: "Ha, Sydney, Sydney! Lyes Thou Here? Here Lye. Till Tim
 Is Flown to Its Extremity
 The hanson cab is named after
 Britisher, Joseph Hanson, who in
 vented it -. The stone wall ol
 190th St. and B'way was original
 erected as a fertilization durin the Revolution New York oldest place of amusement twit
 the longest continual rum is tn Central Park carousel. It starte spinning a century ago.
 Gone to Lunch. Be Back Sept l. E3N - -