APRIL
13, 2004 --
W New York (from
what LPR has learned the "W" stands for anything one
chooses -- herewith a nomination for Winsted) on Lexington Avenue,
between 50th and 49th streets, will be home to delegates from Arkansas
and Maine. Marriott East Side, across 49th Street on Lexington
will house the Colorado and Minnesota delegations.
Marquis Marriott,
on Broadway between 45 and 46th streets, rises above the Marquis
Theater, presently showing "Thoroughly Modern Millie." Home
to California, Ohio and Tennessee, who should note that the lobby
is on the eighth floor.
Millennium Broadway,
north side of 44th Street, between Seventh and Sixth Avenues, is
the building with the flags and is across from the "Good Morning
America" studio which draws street spectators as shown in
the accompanying photo. The Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin
delegations looking for this hotel might just look up, from Broadway/Seventh
Avenue, to see the sign shown in the second Millennium photo accompanying
this article (and then head east for those three flags).
The American
Samoa and Indiana delegates are staying at the Embassy Suites,
way downtown, diagonally across Ground Zero, on Vesey Street. The
twin towers of light that symbolized the World Trade towers for
a time, after 9/11, lifted into the sky in the space in front of
this side of the hotel.
The Ritz Carlton
is several blocks south of Embassy Suites and, at the southern
tip of Manhattan, is an appropriate hotel for the Georgia delegates.
The convention
venue, Madison Square Garden, is located between Seventh and Eighth
Avenues and between 31st and 33rd Streets. The accompanying photo
shows the Seventh Avenue entrance. Delegates must walk through
the office building to the Garden, which, as the second photo shows,
is round -- not square-- and is at the corner bounded by 31st Street
and Eighth Avenue. It will not necessarily be helpful to the image
of the G.O.P. if the Garden, during the convention, is surrounded
by a phalanx of steel-helmeted, heavily-armed officers of the New
York City Police Department -- even if two such outfitted officers
were seen in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Easter Sunday.
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"The
World’s Most Famous Arena” - Madison Square
(actually round) Garden.
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The
7th Avenue entrance to MSG.
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Those
aren’t Easter bonnets! Steel helmeted cops in front
of St. Patrick's on Easter Sunday.
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