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...Business, Manhattan in recent years has not been an isle of joy. Many corporations have fled New York City; few have had the faith or the funds to build there. Thus the opening of the new $150 million Citicorp Center in midtown Manhattan was an event in itself. More important to New Yorkers and tourists is that the skyscraper gives a stunningly imaginative new accent to the skyline -and, at ground level, is one of the world's few megabuildings that actually appear hospitable to human beings...
...October 1976 was a tour de force of extravagant self-confidence. As police stakeouts looked on in amazement from across the street, more than 200 members of black organized crime rolled up in their Cadillacs and Rolls-Royces to a catered affair in a private club atop a midtown skyscraper. Also in attendance were dozens of relatives from around the country-and one white, his lawyer. Barnes' financial success is a matter of record-in theory. For 1975 he reported to the IRS that he had earned $288,750. Of that, $1,750 was "wages" and the rest...
...first bargain basements in U.S. retailing. He abolished it and created the Cellar, actually a tiled "street" lined with spacious shops for gourmet food, cutlery, stationery and kitchenware and an art gallery. At one end is a reasonably accurate replica of P.J. Clarke's, the Irish pub in midtown Manhattan that stands just as it was built in the 1890s. Demonstrations run continually: a potter handcrafts vases in the pottery shop. On upper floors came other changes: a massive children's store on six, divided into separate shops for each age group; an "arcade" on the ground floor...
...tell you that. We will say only that it is not on the island of Manhattan." Mission: Impossible! No, just a reporter being escorted last week to the set of Superman, possibly the most supersecret, superpublicized movie ever to be shot-at least within 25 minutes of midtown Manhattan...
...heavy is the concentration of communications operations in midtown Manhattan that the New York blackout had an impact that was immediately felt throughout the nation-and the world as well. All three networks transmit their signals from New York by air waves to relay towers and satellites-or by cables-for pickups by affiliate stations across the country. The two major U.S. wire services, Associated Press and United Press International, feed news from New York headquarters to more than 16,000 U.S. and foreign newspapers, radio stations and TV news desks. Scores of New York-based syndicates, ranging from...