Verhovayak Lapja, 1953 (36. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1953 / Verhovay Journal
PAGE 6 Verhovay Journal December 16, 1953. NewYork-The Magnificent (Continued from page 2) THE HOTEL COMMODORE The largest hotel in the middle of Manhattan—2000 restful, attractive . .. all outside guest rooms and suites; grand ballroom where -1800 or more people can be served dinner at one time; ideally located on 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, next to Grand Central Terminal—THAT is the Hotel Commodore, one of the finest hotels anywhere. Thousands of Verhovay members will be quartered at this headquarters hotel next Memorial Day week end, May 29-30, 1954, when the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association stages its 11th Annual National Bowling Tournament and Fellowship Days in the most fabulous city in the world—NEW YORK! NEW YORK! NEW YORK! half pupils and a teaching staff of close to 40,000 and over 1,000 buildings used for public school purposes. There are also about 375 parochial schools with an attendance of more than 150,000 children. The city maintains teacher training schools in which 150 teachers give instruction to hundreds every year. It also maintains 47 senior high schools, 30 vocational high schools, 22 evening high schools and 10 evening trade schools. Over 874,506 pupils are registered in the various elementary, high and vocational schools. There are many institutions besides colleges which contribute to New York’s cultural side. There is, for instance, the Metropolitan Museum of Art with its magnificent exhibits of painting, sculpture, tapestries, potteries, laces, antiques and miscellaneous objects. There is the American Museum of Natural History with its unusual collection and exhibits of mammals, birds, minerals and other objects of scientific interest. Here, the history of man may be traced through the eons of time. There are many other museums of importance in their fields, including that of the Hispanic Society, the Museum of the American Indian, the Museum of the City of New York, the Museum of French Art, the Museum of Modem Art, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Hayden Planetarium, the Museum of New York Historical Society and the Whitney Museum of American Art. There are thousands of private and semi-public galleries offering attractions to the visitor. In the field of nature, there are the New York Botanical Gardens, with a truly amazing collection of living flora gathered from all over the world, and the Bronx and Central Park Zoological Gardens with rare collections of living animals. New York’s sky-scrapers are amoung the marvels of the world. Tallest of them all is the Empire State Building at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street which is 1,471 feet high. Next comes the Chrysler Building at Lexington Avenue and 42nd Street which pushes its tower 1,045 feet up into the air. There are as many as fifty sky-scrapers in the city, all marvels of beauty and distinction, one of the older ones being the Woolworth Building, 792 feet high. New York has over 4,000 buildings of 10 floors and more, 500 buildings of 20 floors and more, and 215 buildings ranging from 25 floors to 102 floors. Rockefeller Center, with its fifteen buildings planned in the fabulously valuable twelve acres from 48th to 51st Streets between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in Mid-Manhattan, should be on the '“must” list of every visitor to New York City. The slim beauty of the 70-story RCA Building rises as the center theme of the development; an observation roof caps this building. It is impossible to describe the many points of interest to be seen in the development. Guided tours are available not only for the Rockefeller Center development itself but through the N. B. C. regular and television broadcasting studios which are housed in several floors of the RCA Building. New York’s bridges constitute another group of wonders. Across the East River is the Brooklyn Bridge, the first of the great suspension bridges to be built. Crossing the Hudson River at 178th Street to Fort Lee, New Jersey, is the George Washington Bridge, one of the latest of the great bridges to be built and considered by many to be the most beautiful suspension bridge in the world. Its total length with approaches is over 12,000 feet. Across the East River are three other great suspension bridges. The city sometimes boasts that it is the World’s true city of bridges for leading into and crossing the waterways divide it are twenty-three miles of over-water structures which have been built at a total cost of nearly $300,000,000. The great new Triborough Bridge with its approaches is 17i miles long. Many of the entertainment features cited above are to be had free or at a nominal cost, but in the field of professional amusement, the city out-distances any other in America. There are something like 100 theatres which are available for the production of first-class shows, musical or dramatic. It is the home of first productions, both on the stage and of the movie screens. It is a practice for producers after a trial run in some relatively small town, to bring their shows to New York for initial runs. During the depression, the stage kept alive in New York City when it had practically ceased to function in other cities of America. In the field of music, New York’s position is equally important. It is the home of the Metropolitan Opera Company, which numbers among its members many of the world’s greatest operatic singers and which furnishes each season a program which can be equaled nowhere else in America. Concert artists, symphony orchestras, light operas and dance orchestras add to the infinite variety of New York’s musical entertainment. Baseball is one of the most popular of American sports. The city has three major league teams which compete during the summer in great arenas given over to this form of sport. There is always a major league ballgame in New York City. Championship boxing matches are staged in the city and there is scarcely a night on which this form of fistic entertainment is not available. During the fall, many college football teams come to New York and make use of its stadia. Almost invariably, the seats are packed for these contests for New Yorkers are sports-loving people. Race tracks in the neighborhood of New York furnish the sport of kings. There are scores of golf clubs in or near the city which make it possible for a very large proportion of the population to enjoy this form of sport. Daily, vessels leave the port for deep-sea fishing excursions. Beaches to the east and south of the city are both clean and safe and are always crowded during the summer. INTERESTINGS BITS New York City has over 5,000 miles of streets, enough, if laid out, to stretch nearly twice across the country. There are nearly 5,000 miles of watermains and nearly 3,000 miles of sewers. Every twenty-four hours, the people of the city make over 13,650,000 telephone calls. There are over 10,650.000 miles of telephone wires in the city. To get its water, New York goes 100 miles into the Catskill Mountains where a giant reservoir provides as pure water as may be had in any large city in the world. In spite of its high land value, the city maintains great parks. Over 14,000 acres are devoted to this purpose. The most famous of these is Central Park in the center of Manhattan which covers 840 acres. The park contains several lakes and forty miles of walks, drives and bridle-paths. The city has nearly 2,800 churches and synogogues. Over 4,000,000 of the people of New York are classed as church members. The city has two great cathedrals, St. Patrick’s (Roman Catholic) and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (Episcopal). The city has remarkable facilities for medical research. In recent years two great institutions have been formed, known as Medical Centers, each marking the union of a great university with a great hospital to provide the best in medical research and treatment. The city has ower 140 hospitals and ower 12,000 practicing physicians and surgeons. HOTEL FACILITIES New York is well equipped with hotels in which to entertain the visitor. The variety is such that within reasonable limits, the visitor to New York City may spend as much or as little as he pleases. The city has over 400 hotels with something more than 160,000 rooms and more than 150,000 bathrooms. Several of the city’s luxurious hotels have more than 2,000 rooms, each equipped with every contrivance that contributes to the comfort of the guest. All the refinements of electrical development, such as public address systems, motion pictures and the radio are commonplace. Every loom has a telephone. Many have television. Meals may be taken in the rooms at any hour of the day or night. The visitor from abroad may obtain, instantly, interpreters in every one of the civilized languages. He may have the benefit of highly specialized information from an intelligent and well-organized central bureau. In every department, the most advenced methods of sanitation are observed. In the storage, handling and preparation of food, every conceivable precaution and provision for the preservation of health is utilized. In the larger hotels, hospitals with a staff of physicians, surgeons and nurses and all modern appliances are available to guests. Ample libraries are maintained. In some, private chapels are available to those who worship. Playrooms heavily stocked with toys are provided for children of guests.-----------««■§ -----------
