Word: midtown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their greenery in one huge garden. New York, for instance, takes tremendous pride in the fact that Central Park is larger than Monaco. But many city planners, led by Landscape Architect Robert Zion, have argued for years that what cities really need are small parks in midtown where pedestrians can escape from the madding crowd...
...Stork Club (TIME, Oct. 15) into a lot-size (42 ft. by 100 ft.) public park as a memorial to his father, Cigar Czar Samuel Paley, who died in 1963. The $1,000,000 plaza, which is to be completed this summer, will be New York's first midtown "waistcoat" park, and the first privately endowed public park in the city. Designed by Zion, it will feature a canopy of 24 intertwined locust trees, individual chairs and a kiosk for sandwiches and soft drinks. Mirrors on the side walls will add a feeling of depth, and a sheet...
Just as spectacular in its own way is the new heliport that opened for business last week atop Manhattan's Pan Am Building, 59 stories in the air. From that pad, New York Airways will whisk travelers from midtown Manhattan to Kennedy Airport in only seven minutes (v. the 45-minute taxi trip) for $7. Passengers can check their luggage at Pan Am's mezzanine-level counter, never have to bother with it again until they land in London or Bombay...
Dancing Girls. For sheer pomp and pageantry, however, no city can light a candle to New York. At dusk, virtually every square foot of street frontage in midtown Manhattan comes alive with winking wreaths, sparkling and mechanized mannequins. For the 20th year, Christmas trees will divide Park Avenue for 62 blocks with a band of light. At Herald Square, Macy's windows add an Eastern accent with some 200 animated figures, ranging from girls dancing in mosques (a practice not allowed by Moslems) to silk-garbed courtiers watching performing jugglers. Across the street its archrival, Gimbel's, counters...
...shirts, socks and underwear, the appearance of thousands of haggard employees and the empty spaces at 30% of the desks and workbenches throughout the city amply proved. With few exceptions, New Yorkers the morning after could fully appreciate the sign that appeared in the window of a littered midtown Automat: PARDON OUR APPEARANCE...