19 May
2017
19 May
'17
6:48 p.m.
On May 19, 2017, at 5:20 PM, Gareth McCaughan <gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com> wrote:
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(For what it's worth, Mosteller ends up going for the top of the Empire State Building, precisely because Times Square is big.) . . .
I happen to believe that, of all the obvious places, the Empire State Bldg. is the most obvious. Especially if you consider the New York City of the 1960s, when it actually still was the tallest building in the city — for that matter, in the world. The top of the building is, or at least was, the unique highest place you could go in the city. Which imho supersedes a debate about which is the most famous. —Dan