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There are millions of New Yorkers who live like that. There are millions, more who live somewhat better, but hardly well, who are not to be officially classified as poor, but whose lives limp on a few miles, and spiritual lightyears, away from the perpetual midtown Easter Parade. Donald Petty, 48, of Astoria, Queens, is trying to bring up four kids in a small row house. "I hear a lot of talk about how great New York's doing, about all the new money coming into the city," he says. "I don't see any of it out here...
...last week, when Pan American World Airways announced that it was selling its octagonal Manhattan tower that looms over Park Avenue for $400 million. Completed in 1963, the 59-story aluminum and stainless steel-sheathed skyscraper leads directly into Grand Central Terminal and sits in the center of a midtown office construction boom. "To my knowledge," says John Robert White, chairman of Landauer Associates, Pan Am's real estate broker, "this is the largest price ever paid for a single urban building...
...Sheraton's severest verdicts in her nearly four years on the job was passed last month on an opulent new Chinese restaurant in midtown Manhattan called Dish of Salt. Not a single star did it rate, out of a potential maximum of four; instead, it got a boldface Poor. Sheraton rapped the place for every sin from pretentious décor to "lackadaisical and inept" service. The fish and lobster were "hopelessly overcooked." The egg roll "oozed grease." The spareribs were "dreadful," the dim sum were "stale," the sesame beef roll "stiff and cold." As for the chrysanthemum...
...Side apartment on his $32,000 salary. And feel sorry for the guy whenever he ventures into a restaurant. Poor Ted just can't have a normal meal out. He sees Joanna for the first time in 18 months, gets fired, learns the court's verdict--all in chic, midtown restaurants. It's a wonder he keeps going...
...admissions and scholarship work is serious business, but for most people, Harvard Clubs primarily mean cocktail parties. Rochester has no separate building for its Harvard Club like the New York City club's luxurious midtown quarters, so its alumni use prestigious local clubs like the Genesee Valley Club for their functions. The Harvard Club sponsors a getaway picnic," a freshman upperclassmen party, a Christmas luncheon, and a winter outing each year...