HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-11-29, Page 35Yellow taxi, cab are the main traffic on the
Bic
streets of New York. But don't try to ;get one at
rush hour!
Typical street signs in New York City: Keeping:
the streets clean in New York is a . major
problem with. a "population, of eight" million
people, As for the "Don't Walkil—ligniTlieaple
just keep walking unless they're.'. forced to, stop
by oncoming traffic.
Scene. outside of the 'United Nations building
iNhileCastro was speaking inside. Thousands of
policemen were visible for his entire May: One
bus driver said he :'hadn't seen so many
helmets since_ the war."
Wit SHEILA G.UNBY
New York City.
It's too big,
It's too dirty. There are too manypeople.
1 love it.
We arrived at Kennedy Airport, then
onto the bus to the east terminal (two,
,blocks from the Cuban Mission) smack into
the security for Fidel Castro's visit to the
United Nations. The bus driver said he
"hadn't seen so many helmets `since the
war," According to one policeman, there
were 15,000 police on duty, They were
everywhere -up and down 38th street and
up to the U.N. building. Masses of police
and masses of people; Two blocks over, the
protest march against Castro's visit had
3500, people singing, chanting and''.
shouting.
What an 'introduction to New York.
City -the "big apple". Everything ' was
happening here.
t �•• •-Manhatten teems with people. It hums
with activity. It was hard to believe people
lived like this all the time. Police sirens
were heard about every half hour. A real
disaster area.
The' city 'lis incredibly dirty -paper
swirling around., boxes and bags
overflowing with garbage -huge bins full of
packaging cars parked in the street.
' Demolition and reconstruction added to the
confusion as well as noise. :
1 ` Manhattan is built On solid rock. When
the Empire State building was constructed,.
`the builders had te.blast two stories in
depth to hold 102 storeys and the two
storeys 6f rock was heavier than the 102
stotsys of concrete and steel: A good place
• for a city of skyscrapers.
The best way to see Manhattan the
Empire State building, the U.N. the Trade
Center, Wall St, Central Park, the Statue of
Liberty, Broadway -is to walk. That' way you
can see the people, the shops; the
architecture -to get the real flavour of the
city.
`Broadway has all: ,he live theatrical
shows. After the shows are out the street is
like a big party; Everyone is, happy. A
youngnegro boy plays the kettle, drum on
one corner, people stopping and listening,
guitar players on another corner, another
man playing card tricks.
Restaurants .are plentiful. Ethnic
restaurants abottnd as New York is known
as "the melting pot" containing people of
all nationalities.
.
A tour upto . Harlem was an eye
opener -50 blocks where the black
comm `unity is concentrated, There, each
block averages two churches. After the
assassination of Martin Luther Icing Jr..
116th St, was literally destroyed by riots,
Sections were completely looted and burnt
out.and it remains that way today with
rubble on the streets, hulks of cars and
tumbled down buildings.
A lot of tenement houses, were built in
this area. There was a rule that buildings
seven stories and over had to have
elevators and consequently, a lot of six
storey apartments were built to save costs.
This gave rise to fire "escapes attached to
the sides of the buildings, the typical
"tenement" building sten in all those
pollee TV shows.
In eontrastwas Fifth Avenue, the street
of "high fashion" with ail the name brands
and the prices to gowith them -a simple
Cotton blouse for $80-a corduroy „jacket for
ig,
ific
S280'. On upper Fifth Ave nue: where had; A real
Robert Redford and Jackie Kennedy have
apartments, a typical five room apartment
with two bedroom, rerits for 51,000 to
51500 a month.
Four days in'New York "City -that's all I
irty
culture "shock but a real
education.
1 couldn't help but wonder how New
Yorkers would feel if they were flown to
rural Ont.*rio. I'd like to read what they had
to say about us.
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