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...Narrows of New York Harbor one drizzly morning this week stood a hulking grey battleship. Convoyed by Coast Guard craft, she cast anchor at the Government Anchorage, hard by the Staten Island ferry pier. Palm Sunday passengers noted the flag fluttering at her stern: the British ensign. Around 11 o'clock, half her crew went ashore for liberty, and Manhattanites soon knew what ship she was. On the seamen's flat-cap ribbons was the gilded legend: "H.M.S. Malaya...
...only did riders on the Staten Island ferry have a good look at her close up but the German consul had only to look out of his office building on Battery Place to see her riding at anchor. But many a U.S. newspaper reader heard nothing about it, for, after the Lend-Lease Act was passed, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox appealed to the U.S. press not to report the movements of British vessels putting into U.S. ports...
...wire note to editors, Associated Press memoed the fact that a British battleship was off Staten Island, told editors it was sending out no story. Most Manhattan newspapers were mum. Exceptions were the Herald Tribune, which ran a photograph and story on Page One, the tabloid Daily News, which front-paged her in an airview photograph...
...42nd Street. Proud but not satisfied is the city's Board of Transportation. Included in plans for the far future : an East Side subway to replace the 2nd and 3rd Avenue elevateds, a subway under Central Park, four new tunnels under the East River and one to Staten Island...
Before 1934, New York City's municipal hospitals were not model institutions. Ward leaders ordered special diets for pet patients, inmates of the City Home on Welfare Island were persuaded to make wills leaving their paltry goods to the superintendent, and at the Farm Colony on Staten Island many employes were habitually drunk...