Yea and that's where "23 skidoo" came from. The wind around the flat iron building caused womans dress to blow up in the air. The cops chased the voyeurs away with "skidoo" and the flat iron on 23rd street.
Ground Zero Memorial. I listened to a tour guide as he was standing in front of this memorial. He said that Manhattan had grown by an acre, since all the rubble from the Twin Towers could not be hauled away. So they made it into a landfill, showing pictures of before and after, it is true! Manhattan grew by about an acre! Strange...
Grand Central Station, which I was not planning to visit, but I needed a wired ethernet adapter for my MacBook Air, and the closest Apple store was in GCS You can sort of make it out (by seeing the army of blue shirted apple employees) all the way on the other side.
Boyaah and get this....how cool is that... Next time youâre stuck in traffic between 23rd Street and 34th Street on the FDR Drive, take a moment to consider where the land beneath you came from. It wasnât fill from digging the subways or skyscrapersâit was actually transported here all the way from England in the 1940s. âDuring World War II, the Luftwaffe savagely bombed the city of Bristol, England, a major port for American supply ships,â wrote Michael Pollack in his FYI column in The New York Times in June 2009. âAfter the supplies were unloaded, the American ships had no British goods to replace them on the return trip, and needed ballast for stability. So they loaded up rubble from Bristolâs bombed-out buildings.â âBack in New York, the ships dumped the ballast from 23rd to 34th Street as landfill for what would become the East River Drive, now Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive.â Though you wonât find it on any city road maps, the slight curve of the East River between these blocks is known as Bristol Basin (above).