European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Artist s sketch of Lincoln Center on which work has ust begun. Up photos still building new York. Cont. From Page 11 hotels until a few years ago. Today the apartment houses Are being replaced by tall office buildings 30 new ones since world War , landscaped apartment buildings Are going up in clusters along the East River from the Brooklyn Bridge to 23d st., replacing old tenements that in Man cases lacked water heat and toilets. The East River farther Uptown now is flanked by glittering Cliff like luxury apartments. West Side the new Pride of new York is the Lin Coln Center for the performing arts a 250 million Dollar cultural project that earned National attention on May 14 when presi Dent Eisenhower arrived to turn Over a Spade Ful of soil and Start construct ongoing. The Lincoln Center part of a 45-acre development that replaces rundown Tene ments and stores will House an Art Center a new philharmonic concert Hall re placing Carnegie Hall which will give Way to an office building a new Home for the metropolitan opera the old opera houses coming Down too a new Juilliard school of music repertory theater dance Heater and museum Library. In addition Fordham University will build a new Midtown Campus and there will be eight blocks of apartment houses for 4,500 families. Eleven thousand people had to be relocated before the Lincoln Cen Ter project could Start. The Center is near the coliseum the City s new exposition Hall and office build ing that is rapidly becoming an International landmark. Office building on the West Side comparatively quiescent despite the pre world War ii razing of the sixth ave. Al now shows signs of booming. Not Only is Lin Coln Center expected to attract shiny new office buildings for neighbors but a 47-Story time life building is nearing completion on the West Side of sixth ave.,some experts believe this skyscraper 16th in the Rockefeller Center Complex will be a Magnet for other tall High class office structures in the coming years. Lending credence to this belief is the recently announced plan for a Mammoth 35-Story two Block Square office be built near Pennsylvania station and called Central City this Structure could double at least the Pentagon s three and a half million Square feet of office space. All around the postwar building Boom is adding at least 125 new office buildings to the Man Hattan Skyline and the real estate Board of new York Calls this the largest com Mercial building program of All time. While most of the offices Are going Upin the Midtown area the financial District in lower Manhattan most famous for wallst., is adding four million Square feet of office space. It is the District s greatest splurge since the 1927 Boom and leading the Way is a 60-Story Chase Manhattan Bank building with 1,600,000 Square feet. Hans also have been announced for a lock Square Federal office building in the City Hall area. This building would con Tain 1,500,000 Square feet of space and. Would be the largest Federal office build ing outside the nation s capital the Crystal Ball Gazer Tell us new York City s future is assured despite those who say the Era of the big City is Over. A recent Survey by the regional plan Assn. Reported that by 1975 the 22-county metropolitan area will increase in Popula Taion from 15 million people to 19,100,000. As the suburbs develop planners not that such development is intimately linked to accessibility to Manhattan s Core even though the trend to Suburbia has putdown on the number of people who rely on downtown Manhattan for their income or shopping. More than 3 million people enter Man Hattan each Day but this is 10 per cent fewer than in 1948. It is estimated that suburban shopping centers have led to a drop of 300,000 shoppers daily for Man Hattan stores. The major stores in response have opened suburban branches. More and More of those who do com mute daily to new York Are coming in by automobile rather than by subway bus rail or ferryboat. The shift to private transportation has created a greater need for new expressways and construction is proceeding to expand the City s already elaborate arterial Highway project will link the George Washington Bridge to the throws neck Bridge now under construction by Means of an expressway across Manhattan and the Bronx. The George Washington Bridge is getting a second level added to it to accommodate the Rush. The throws neck Bridge will empty onto Long Island s Broa network of highways. A additional expressways Are tying in j.\. To the Treborough Bridge which links Manhattan the Bronx and Queens an the new England thruway. Another Bridge is being built from Brooklyn to Staten Island linking the City s other boroughs while permitting Longisland bound traffic to bypass Manhattan further major assaults on the traffic problem involve a lower Manhattan expressway to link the Holland Tunnel wit the Bridges to Brooklyn and a mid Man Hattan expressway to connect the Lincoln Tunnel on the West Side with the Queens Midtown Tunnel on the East. In a tremendous task of slum clearance new York s housing authority and the slum clearance committee which work with the Federal sponsored title i pro Gram have created in the last decade 28projects for nearly 36,000 Low income or Middle income families. Tall a shaped red or yellow Brick apartment houses Are springing up in parts of Manhattan Brook Lyn and the Bronx that once were slum infested. But the Job is far from finished and new York still has Many blighted an overcrowded slum areas. Many neighbourhoods notably the West Side and Greenwich Village have organized renewal programs and Are sprucing up faded buildings. Some landlords Are converting old Brownstone buildings into modern air conditioned apartments an charging luxury apartment rents. As old buildings come Down and new ones go up it seems that now More than Ever it is appropriate to recall the remark first attributed to Jimmy Walker when hews mayor new York will be a Beautiful City if they Ever get her finished Cost a utilities Lack of bathtubs and landlord trouble often irk on the Economy housewives in Germany but a by Henry b. Kraft staff writer the Thomases daughter Terri go window shopping. The Buzolich work out their monthly budget Colleen Buzolich left and Wanda con Ley another on the Economy wife have a morning Chat Over Back Yard laundry line. Living on the Economy in German is a strange fascinating anti some Umes frustrating experience. That s what members of the Stuttgart Economy wives club have to say about it and they find living in German communities a sometime kind of thing. Thirty members of the club meet wednesdays at the Patch Barracks a club for among other things Swap Ping notes on their problems and sharing their Happy experiences. You says mrs. Max e. Thomas president of the club this gives us a Chance to get out of the House and to talk with our mrs. Thomas husband is a specialist four with the 97th signal in. They have an infant daughter Terri Lee and they live in a private Home in come from Tecumseh okla. The Thomases have two furnished rooms a Kitchen and bedroom and pay 145 Marks $34.50 Basic rent every month. Gas and electricity Are extra and sometimes push the monthly Tab to 220 Marks $52.50 they buy Coal and Wood in the wintertime and that Means another $10 a month. The Thomases like living on the Economy. She says she feels sorry for those who live in american housing areas. Sure it s rough on the Economy but the people who live in housing areas Don t get to know the German people. They Are All cooped up with hundreds of other americans and Don t get out much she and misunderstandings with them Are often a big problem to those of the on the Economy fraternity but thinks most of her club members have Nice landlords. One of the inconveniences the Thomas family has is Lack of a private Bath. They Are permitted to use the landlord s Bat Between 5 and 7 pm saturdays. Several american couples live in a Large apartment House in to Eslingen. One is thesp4 j. C. Cheek family from Burlington . He s with the 7th army he comp troller Section. They have no children and say their two room apartment with Bath is just what the doctor ordered. Gayle Thommi handing open a myth nil of the stat tart by enemy win Osifo of which who if or widest army photo Dori Trent prepare meal on a two Burner electric stove. Pay 15� Marks 36 a month and extra for . Cheek Points out. We have a Coal stove and this adds to the expense. I la Tell you this though. I certainly like living on the Acon omy. We meet More people and that Way learn the language better."sp4 Robert Williams and his wife who with their two youngsters Terri 2, and Robert r., jr., 6 months live in Rohr near Vaihinger Don t like living on the Economy. They come from Wellsville n.y., and their local Home is one room with Kitchen off the bathroom. For cooking there s a hot plate and they share the refrigerator and bathroom. Rent is 200 Marks $47.73 a month plus those extras for . Williams viewpoint is a bit Dif Ferent than mrs. Cheek s. She says maybe if i could speak German i might like it. I feel people Here stare at you and make you feel pfc David g. Trent and his wife live inthe same building with the Williamss. Trent is with 7th army he and comes from new Brunswick . We have a Nice room and Kitchen but no toilet mrs. Trent Points out. The share one with the Williams family. Rent costs them 220 Marks $52.50 i Don t know whether i la get to like living on the Economy she Anton c. Buzolich and his wife Are also neighbors of the Williamss in Rohr and they figure the key to living on the Economy is keeping close tabs on the family Cut costs Many of the on the Economy group Camp out when they re on have Only visited nearby places. Others have managed to see As Many As six the club does t limit its activities to discussing what it s like to live on the Economy and what to do about it mrs. Thomas Points out that the club helps the american red Cross make bandages As one of its Aiso collect magazines for sol Diers in hospitals and bake cakes once month for distribution to troops by the red Cross. They also help German orphan Ages making toys for them and even paying the orphanage milk Bills sometimes mrs. Thomas said. And even if they miss some of the com forts of Home they re Able to be with their husbands. That offsets any of the inconveniences of living on the Economy they agree. Thi Staw and stripes saturday Augait 22, 1959 Thi stars and stripes 19
