Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-16
MIDTOWN NEW YORK
Manhattan Serenode
BY ROBERT SYLVESTER

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The avenues run one way. the
streets run the other and Our
Town runs round the clock. 4.
A girl in an expensive mink coat
drinks coffee in the Automat and
shabby insists stare at art treas
ures in the dealers windows. !.
Popcorn and Pokerino are only q
couple of blocks from the Metro
politan Opera and the classic
ballet companies. Television
keeps taking over the Legitimate
stage theaters and the demand
for the free Tv tickets Is often
greater than for the Broadway
hits. The average resident
Of Our Town isn't too sure where
Grants Tomb is. may not even
know who's buried there.
In the winter. heated horse
drawn hansoms line up on the
south side Of Central Park, while
the unheated pedestrians line ur
above the skating rink in Rookie
Teller Plaza.
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The Cioisters. In Fort Tryon
Park, is devoted to art and reli.
gious treasures from ong-forgot.
ten times while. from its height
the museum looks down on the
George Washington Bridge. ont
Of the modern engineering mar
veis. /. A street vendor of hoi
dogs hawks his wares right out.
side the exclusive Yale Club.
Above Fortieth street. Seventh
avenue becomes q part of Broad
way and jumps all night. Below
Fortieth, Seventh avenue is thu
garment center and is deserted
with the afternoon quitting
whistles. Outside the nor
shows, which can cost as much
as $500. 900. the sidewalk hustler'
rattle cans for handouts.
Shoelace statesmen push 70
pennies In West Forty-seventl
street. while within the store
the diamond center traders swal
fortunes in rare gems. A
some Of the cheap Afternoon
movies it costs no more to bu.
q ticket than it does for tn
candy hawked In the aisles.
Chorus girls go out with ship
ping heirs and oil magnates
daughters date shipping clerks
F. A prince works for a news
paper and a hobo is q publisher
Danish pastry has chaset
New England brown bread RICH
OF the menus. =. Homeless
Migrants sleep on park benche
In the summer across the stree
from some Of the towns fancies
hotels.
The five and dime stores hav,
items priced as high as S. ant
you seldom come upon anything
with a little price in any Littl
Shop. People stand docill
in line for hours to see q moyi
and then fight like maniacs Il
get q subway seat for the 40
minute ride home. In SOM
night clubs, the bosses and hell
nightly outnumber the custom
ers. The clipjoint stripteas
night clubs will heist you with
out a qualm, but, being to-
cheap to buy air conditioning
have to leave the doors open q
you can see the whole show fire.
from the sidewalk. Indy
has a sign in the window prov
ing that its desserts are MOI
made by a famous dessert cook
-. More business Is done II
restaurants and saloons than i
transacted in many big efiic,
buildings.
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The morning newspapers ar
published at night and the after
noon papers can be bought IL
the morning. =. Gals in fur
and diamonds throw a dime
worth Of peanuts to the pigeons
=. You can get anything on
of a vending machine from ,
penny stick Of gum to SIS. 00l
worth of life insurance.
Everywhere you look they're tear
ing something else down to max
room for another parking lot
Y. Where traffic lights are con
cerned, most bus drivers ar
color blind. i. The better stor'
windows exhibit summer clothe
In the middle OF winter. s. Ad
vice, like dry goods, Is sold b.
the yard In research and adver
Using agencies. The under
ground fares keep rising Will
the Staten Island ferry. the long
est ride In town. still charge
q nickel.
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A Communist headquarter
and one of the snootiest club
for the rich nestle cheek by jow
in the East Sixties. In Gu
Town at least one policeman ha
to know how to run q helicoptel
Our biggest, newest and bust
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