Word: sites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rockefellers, walked into Manhattan's jangling, spangly Monte Carlo where Bill Zeckendorf was just beginning to enjoy himself. It was his sixth wedding anniversary, his partner's 34th birthday. Architect Harrison had a map of Manhattan in his hand. Ringing Zeckendorf's East Side site with a pencil, he asked: "How much?" Without batting an eye, Zeckendorf tossed off his answer: $8,500,000. Forthwith, a 30-day option in the name of John D. Rockefeller Jr. was signed...
...hour later John D. had finished a letter to the U.N., offering the property as a gift. The conditions: that New York City buy up and give to U.N. the few lots needed to square off the site; that the city turn over the streets included in the area, and rights to the waterfront...
...York City's Board of Estimate immediately agreed to do its part. A sub-committee of the U.N. made a whirlwind inspection of the site, turned in a glowing report. At week's end the General Assembly voted (46 to 7) to accept the Rockefeller gift. U.N. had found a home...
Promoter Zeckendorf had let his U.N. site go for a 20% profit, he said. Now he was busily buying up East Side property as far west of U.N. as Grand Central, getting ready to refurbish the whole area. When he sells or develops his neighboring blocks, he expects to make his usual 400% profit. Said he with happy anticipation: "That's how we make progress in this wonderful capitalistic country...
...government. They hope to recruit some of the faculty for the German School of Advanced Studies from scholars exiled by the Nazis. Courses will be taught in German and the school will be paid for mainly by 3,500,000 marks ($350,000) of German local-government funds. Probable site: the old Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute in the U.S. sector of Berlin...