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Another approach is the British "grid," calling for the creation of several self-contained neighborhoods-complete with schools, theaters, shopping centers and parks. Along these lines, Mayor John Lindsay's task force on urban design suggests that New York City, rather than pack even more skyscrapers into midtown Manhattan and Wall Street, should create a major business district along Harlem's 125th Street. Governor Nelson Rockefeller, in fact, has encouraged the move by ordering the construction of a 23-story state office building for Harlem. But New York, typically at odds with itself, is also building...
...Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco is not so much a neighborhood as a state of mindlessness. The Erewhon of America's "pot left," a 10-by-15 block midtown section, has over the past year become the center of a new utopianism, compounded of drugs and dreams, free love and LSD. It is a far cry from the original Utopia, envisioned some 400 years ago by Sir Thomas More, whose denizens demanded six hours of work each day: the 7,000 mind-blown residents of San Francisco's "Psychedelphia" demand a zero-hour day and free freak...
...weeks ago, Pepsico Inc., the parent company of Pepsi-Cola, announced that it will move its headquarters from midtown Manhattan's Park Avenue to the 112-acre grounds of the Blind Brook Polo Club in suburban Westchester County, which it purchased. Nearby Greenwich, Conn., last week gave preliminary approval to American Can Co.'s plan for shifting its 1,300-employee international headquarters to a 141-acre tract by 1970. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. bought 60 acres in Stamford, Conn., for its chemical division, along with 700 white-collar workers. Uris Buildings Corp., builder of dozens of Manhattan...
Olin Mathieson and Pepsico blamed their departures primarily on an inability to find enough midtown space for their staffs. Vacant office space is so scarce in Manhattan today that other companies have grabbed eagerly at the forsaken quarters. Most of the demand comes from expanding businesses already on the scene, notably the headquarters of 26% of the nation's 500 largest corporations. In fact, Mayor Lindsay insisted that the city, with some 8,000,000 sq. ft. of office space due to be completed this year, is still amidst "a boom in corporate growth...
...rich quick by persuading female midgets to use contact lenses as contraceptives, opened in a Lower East Side cin bin that was soon crammed by the cab trade from uptown. And Shirley Clarke's Jason, a harrowing 120-minute interview with a black male prostitute, was offered a midtown opening as a hard-eyed cautionary tale and a surefire succes de scandale...