entire Times Square area along with 42nd street.
Cheers,
Erika
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-----Original Message-----
From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 11:14 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: CF-Community: Digest every 8 hours
I was raised in Texas, but there is a very strong memory that has stayed
with me
of a 5 day business trip to NYC a little over 20 years ago.
I stayed in a hotel (sorry, I don't remember the name) that overlooked
Grand
Central Station, and the place Where I was attending a conference was on
42nd
Street, in the Mobil Building.
Little things of note, was the double dead-bolt locks on the hotel room
door,
and a separate key being issued for a dead bolt lock on the room closet
door,
where we were admonished to lock up all our belongings any time we left
the
room. The seated security guard on each floor, just outside the
elevator.
When we arrived at the conference, note was made of an armed security
guard on
each floor of the Mobil building and a double ID check once one got off
the
elevator before entry was granted to the offices on that floor. The
first order
of business at the conference was an admonishment to never, never go
anywhere
outside alone, but move about in a minimum of pairs, preferably more.
One morning while 4 of us were walking through Grand Central Station as
a short
cut to the conference center, we saw first hand a person being mugged
right in
the middle of the crowd, within ten feet of a uniformed policeman, and
no one
seemed to pay any attention. After that most of us did not even dare to
go
anywhere after dark, although the stories of the ones that did, told us
that
they had no problems visiting Times Square, etc. although their
observations of
what took place in that area raised goose bumps on this country boy.
Another thing was the seemingly rudeness of natives toward visitors. I,
of
course was outed as a Texan any time I spoke.
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