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McNitt said the Greenhouse will remain open on Monday through Thursday nights until midnight. She said she believes "there did seem to be some demand, [but] not a huge demand, for walk-up business" during the night hours...
These days, the airport is filled with Detroiters who are defecting to Pro Air because of walk-up fares that are as much as 85% cheaper than Northwest's. For instance, an unreserved seat to Indianapolis, Ind., cost $578 round trip before Pro Air came to town with its deal of $138. Northwest was forced to match. Also aiding Pro Air's cause are hassle-free fares--no advance booking or Saturday-night stays required--to New York City; Philadelphia; Chicago; Baltimore, Md.; Orlando, Fla; Atlanta; and Indianapolis. "We're on the edge of a revolution out here," boasts Stamper...
...Reuther was creating the U.A.W., on the other side of Detroit's Woodward Avenue, in a sparsely furnished second floor walk-up, James Riddle Hoffa was creating a very different kind of union...
Autumn in New York may be inviting to most visitors to the city, but the approach of winter is ominous for the transients inhabiting a fourth-floor walk-up on the Bowery. In the heat of summer, a few at least are able to sleep on the fire escapes and the roof of the building--avoiding for a moment the circle of hell they have been assigned. The cramped and airless space within is subdivided into 32 cubicles doled out to at least 100 men. The stink of sweat, unwashed clothing, old shoes and garbage suffuses the narrow makeshift corridors...
Remember when cockroaches were romantic? Mary Cantwell's Manhattan, When I Was Young (Houghton Mifflin; 214 pages; $21.95) is an unusually deft contribution to the durable genre of memoirs on the theme of How I Came of Age in a Greenwich Village Walk-Up, Married an Intellectual and Learned to Survive on My Own in the Big Apple...