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Space-starved New York City last week sold a lot of air for $1,065,000. Five firms bid for the rights to 90,000 sq. ft. of air over a two-block area in Upper Manhattan that has been cleared of old apartment buildings for a new expressway approach to George Washington Bridge. The highest bidder: Manhattan Realtor Marvin Kratter, 44, whose Kratter Corp., formed only last year, has become one of New York's most aggressive and ambitious builders. The sale marked the first time New York City has sold air rights over a sunken road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: $1,000,000 Worth of Air | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

...greatest difficulty which the Authority faces is derived from the continual decline in patronage. Since 1946, the number of riders has dropped 50 per cent, and with the opening of every new expressway or the imposing of a higher fare, the number drops even more...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: 'He Never Returned' | 11/27/1959 | See Source »

Green Thumb. In Detroit, police found longtime Drug Addict J. Papp standing on the grass in the center strip of the Willow Run Expressway holding a shovel, some fertilizer, and a cigarette package full of marijuana seeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...mobile air compressor towed by a dump truck suddenly broke loose, lurched across the Long Island Expressway, crunched into the side of a grey 1959 Cadillac. Only passenger to escape injury: longtime (1948-57) Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella, his thickset body still crippled from an auto accident a year ago (TIME, Feb. 10, 1958). Said Roy, shaken by the mishap: "If I hadn't been strapped in, I'd have gone through the windshield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Broken Field. In Toledo, Taxi Driver Elmer Bittow was convicted of drunken driving after sheepishly admitting that he had driven his cab 26 miles south down the northbound lane of the Detroit-Toledo Expressway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 15, 1958 | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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