m m A L L A R O U N D THE TOWN I H H A L L A R O U N D HW T H E T O W N Amazing Manhattan Facts and Curiosities Patrick Bunyan Fordham University Press New York 1999 Copyright Q 1999 by Patrick Bunyan All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored In a retrieval system, or transmitted in any formo r by any means-elec- tronic, mechanical, photocopy, recordingo, r any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, wlthout the prior permmion of the puh- lisher. Library of CongressC ataloging-in-l’ublication Data Bunyan, Patrick. All around the town: amazing Manhattan facts and curioslties / Patrlck Runyan. - 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographlcal references and index. ISHN 0-8232-1940-2 (hc.).- ISBN 0-8232-1941-0 (pbk.) 1. New York (N.Y.)-Miscellanea, 2. New York (N.Y.)-Guidebooks. I. Title. F128.36.086 1999 917.47’10443-dc21 99-19769 CIP Printed in the UnitedS tates of America 03 02 010 0 99 S 4 3 2 1 First Edition TO Scott Burns This Page Intentionally Left Blank CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Downtown 1 The Village 63 Midtown 163 Above 59th Street 285 Select Bibliography 347 index 351 This Page Intentionally Left Blank ALL AROUND THE T O W N