Location, Location

As the song goes "The Bronx is up and the Battery's down!" Our office in Manhattan was at Number One Broadway - a classic address at the bottom of Broadway and adjacent to Battery Park. In 1976 the offices were not air conditioned and we opened the tall windows to take in the sounds and smells emanating from the park - the sweet smoke of "maryjane", the guitar player singing his rendition of Rhinestone Cowboy and a strange fellow who constantly yelled out "Cry Aloud!" for all to hear. In the fall if the Yankees won the World Series their parade up Broadway would begin outside our window and the phones went unanswered. On July 4, 1976, during the Bicentennial Celebration, the Tall Ships paraded up the harbor right past our windows. I didn't mind being excluded as I was on the water that day in a spectator boat topping off a fabulous weekend. (Apropos of the famous address a friend stationed in Japan told me that everyone in Tokyo wanted to be "Chome Number One" which must have driven the postman nuts. Not unlike everyone in New Jersey wanting a Princeton P.O.Box)
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