) 7) Castlegar News Janvory 21, 1987 MANHATTAN: Life compressed By CALVIN WOODWARD Canadian Prese NEW YORK — Take all of Manitoba's one million people and pack them into Brandon, a city of 38,000: Then take all the six million people of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan and park them just outside. Throw-eoektail parties and talk about the horrendous cost of apartments. Jam the streets with more than 30,000 taxis, driven mostly by demons, and carve out a hellish subway where trains scream and ooze drips from the walls. Then, grace the city with sculpted marble arches and ornate balconies. Infuse the air with the culinary aromas of an array of cultures and make music, day and night, in grand theatres, in hole-in-the-wall jazz clubs and on the sidewalks. Finally, have this city exhibit a swaggering self-confi- dence while exposing its despair for all to see. Tolerate everything except mediocrity. Now, you've begun to approximate Manhattan, the hub of one of civilization’s greatest cities, New York. . LIFE COMPRESSED Manhattan is life compressed, 1.4 million people living on an island slightly larger than Brandon's 45 square kilometres. Nearly 20 per cent of the land area is the great swath of Central Park and other parkland. What's left also has to make room for commuters pouring in daily from outside. Away from the burgeoning middle-class and blue-collar neighborhoods of New York City’s four other boroughs — Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and the Bronx Manhattan serves as a catalogue of society's best and worst, with not much apparent in between. “This is a city of constant churning, of constant contradictions,” says Jim Sleeper, a specialist in urban transition at New York University. 1.4 million people live on an island slightly larger than Brandon's 45 square kilometres’ New York has come a long way from its fiscal crisis in the second half of the 1970s, when it faced bankruptcy, industries closed, about one million people left and many of those who stayed thought the city was dead. Now, the population is edging back toward eight million, the service industries have boomed and most public services — yes, even the subways — have recovered at least to pre-crisis levels. BALANCE BUDGETS Moreover, the city has had six straight balanced budgets under Mayor Ed Koch (pronounced Kotch), the hurricane- force politician credited even by critics with scolding New York's spirit back to life. After four years of decline, crime rose five per cent last year. Fires dropped to a 20-year-low. When midtown Manhattan empties in the evening, crumpled paper still swirls down Fifth Avenue like tumbleweed. But the streets are cleaner than they've ever been. Older New Yorkers talk about times 40 years ago when the air was so dirty they couldn't see the tops of floats in Macy's Christmas parades. But the lack of smokestack industries these days and the imposition of some of the strictest clean air codes in the United States have brought more favorable winds into these urban canyons. Spermicide kills AIDS Except, that is, when one encounters a “hot spot,” a lung-wilting sauna of exhaust fumes-that hangs over the busiest intersections on days when the atmosphere stands ill. a Accounting ‘New York’s real estate market, bas been ranked fourth in the United States, trailing only Washington, Boston and Los Angeles, ALWAYS BUILDING From the gentrification projects in Harlem tothe $4-billion transformation of a landfill site into Battery Park City, there's scarcely a part of Manhattan that. does not shake with the brawny clatter of jackhammere, Some have accused urban planners of lacking a cohesive vision for New York. But Battery Park City, on Manhattan's southern tip, has been hailed as an example of private development being shaped to public ends. Its elegant office towers and apartments will house 60,000 residents and workers upon its completion, with two-bedroom apartments renting for $2,896 a month and two-bedroom condominiums selling for up to $500,000. MOROSO, MARKIN & BLAIN CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANTS 241 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-7287 But the project also features the first public park built in New York in more than 80 years and an enclosed winter garden the size of Grand Central Station's concourse. CANADIANS DO IT Toronto-based Olympia and York developed commercial portions of the project, enticed here with a tax-abatement scheme some thought too generous, But” the results, including lobbies decorated with elegant fabrics and a few dozen varieties of marble, have been praised as skillful and enlightened. New York’s urban renewal is hardly all-inclusive, however. On an elevated commuter train to Shea Stadium in the middle of Queens, the view is of a seamless succession of Archie Bunker neighborhoods, cluttered with dismal tenements. The only color in this grey suburbia comes from the cold glare of old neon, advertising Schlitz On Tap or Cold Miller Here. The pleasant surprises come in some of the areas most ~"‘noted for decay and menace. In Lower th t and run-down piers on the East River have been restored into the lively South Street Seaport, complete with tall ships, a maritime museum and upscale boutiques reminiscent of Historic Properties in Halifax or Boston's Quincy Market. HOMELESS WANDER For every thesis about New York, however, there is an antithesis — a stumbling derelict for every fashion plate strutting down Madison Avenue like one of the cocky city police horses with their twitching tails. A record number of homeless people wander amid the hum of the city, seemingly as swaybacked by life's burdens as the carriage horses that pull tourists tiredly around Central Park. An esti 10,000 of the h less are children. City officials, who guarantee that they will provide temporary shelter for all who seek it, say they don’t why Brian L. Brown CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANT 270 Columbia Ave. Costl, 14 Carpet Cleaning Ph. 365-2151 SOLIGO, KOIDE & JOHN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 615 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B.Sc. C.A. Resident Partner CLEAN-SCENE ENTERPRISES ROTARY-JET STEAM EXTRACTION (TRUCK POWERED) © UPHOLSTERY CLEANING WATER & FIRE DAMAGE CLEAN-UP SPECIALISTS 365-6969 = CHEM-DRY® . OF THE ‘orpets, ries & Upholstery Cleaning there are so many lost souls. “Not since the Depression has there been such a gap between rich and poor,” Sleeper said. Social workers speak of a “semi-permanently frozen-out underclass,” lacking skills and locked into the welfare cycle. DRAW IMMIGRANTS But they do not include in that category today's generation of immigrants. PUBLISHER The Castlegar published by Castle N. td Mail subscriptions rate to the CASTLEGAR is $33 per PARIS (AP) — A compon- ent of a French spermicide kills an AIDS virus in labor- atory tests, the Pasteur In. stitute says. The research work was carried out at the institute by a leading AIDS researcher, Dr. Jean-Claude Chermann.* The French Pharmelac company, the maker of Phar- matex spermicide, regfighted the tests be do : A’member of ann's team, Dr. Francoise Barre- Sinoussi, said the result “must be taken very cau- tiously. We have not shown Wedding jitters VICENZA, ITALY (AP) — Last-minute jitters have been known to make bride- grooms do some strange things, but Elio Brazzale takes the cake. The 20-year-old felt he couldn't go through with the wedding, so he committed a crime on his way to church, Brazzale testified at his trial in this northern town. The bridegroom was ar. rested at the church by police who charged him with at tempted robbery at a house, the news agency ANSA re ported Brazzale was sitting in the barber's chair two hours be- fore the wedding when the idea came to him, ANSA re- ported. Hastily borrowing a car, the man rushed to the nearby town of Thiene, where he made his brief debut as a cat burglar. He fled when detected by the house’s owner but he left behind a trail of clues that led police to him, ANSA said. The groom was convicted of attempted robbery but the judges set him free. that the product, at the mo- ment, prevents the trans- mission of AIDS in man.” Scientists say, the active ingredient against the AIDS virus is benzalkonium chlor- ide. “What we have shown,” said Barre-Sinoussi, “is sim- ply that when the HIV virus was mixed ina test tube with the Pharmatex product, the virus was killed, was inac- tivated — that it was then unable to infect white cells, lymphocytes, in vitro, in a test tube.” Answer to Sunday Crossword Puzzle No. 244 L I re a KK 1 I Answer to Sunday, Jan. 18 Cryptoquip: GRADUATION AT SCHOOL FOR HELPFUL GAS STATION ATTENDANTS FEATURED “PUMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE.” WANTED CLEAN COTTON RAGS Sys Castlegar News 197 Columbia Ave., Castlegar year. in _ communities where the post office has let- ter carrier serv on newsstands edition. The price delivered by newspaper carrier for both editions is only 70¢ a week (collected monthly). 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