Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Christian charities consider the Hare Santas to be a pain in the collection plate. Don Schwartz, Manhattan-based operations director for the Volunteers of America, complains that they often crowd his own Kris Kringles off the streets. In Kansas City, Mo., assault charges are pending against a Hare Santa who allegedly struck a Salvation Army bell ringer to make her move from a choice location. In Chicago, police arrested six Krishna Kringles for soliciting funds under false pretenses, then released them but ordered them to doff their Santa outfits. Nonetheless, the organization has no intention of changing its methods, pointing...
...world (after Bank of America). It is not, obviously, your friendly, flexible Bert Lance lending and saving shop. It is a hard-nosed company that will as swiftly foreclose a multimillion-dollar high-rise as a mom-and-pop delicatessen if the mortgage payments lag. Considering the cost of Manhattan real estate and the sensitivities of its stockholders, Citicorp might well have elected to erect yet an other no-frills cereal box as its new showplace...
...with 1.3 million sq. ft. of office space. The Market, three floors of a glass-roofed, tree-dotted building within a building, houses shops and restaurants. And, paying its dues to God as well as Mammon, Citicorp Center includes one of the most beautiful churches to be erected in Manhattan in this century, a jagged 85-ft.-high polygonal structure of granite and glass that stands free of the office tower and shares a sunken plaza with The Market...
...ambitious real estate brokers, Donald Schnabel, then 36, and Charles McArthur, then 45, had heard that Saint Peter's might be for sale. As Schnabel and McArthur cased the other buildings in the block, they became possessed of what is almost an impossible dream in modern Manhattan: "assembling" all the parcels so that one mighty building could rise on the site...
Citicorp did not announce its plans to build until July 1973. At the time an estimated 30 million sq. ft. of Manhattan office space was standing empty, including 10 million sq. ft. in the World Trade Center, which had opened only three months earlier. Nonetheless, Walter Wriston & Co. remained faithful to their plan to build not merely rentable space but a midtown magnet for people...