Anybody who wants to have a quiet chat in a beautiful place, free, in mid-town Manhattan can use the lobby of the Galleria on 57th Street. It has Mendy’s, a kosher sandwhich and soda place, and a Mendy’s white-tablecloth place, right there. It is an artily designed, airconditioned, little-used lobby, with greenery and a little waterfall, and places to sit. Free. You don’t have to buy anything to sit. The Galleria also has a little, out-door, waterfall vestpocket park. Free. The Galleria is not far from the Borders bookstore on 57th and Park, but the Borders coffee shop is not kosher. You can have the kosher sandwich at the Galleria, and then wander West to Borders, and talk about the books. If you feel like chatting under the trees, free, in the enclosed, public, street level Bamboo Forest at the IBM building at 56th and Madison, nobody is going to stop you either. If you can manage to go there before 12 noon or after 2, it will not be crowded. All these things are near every possible subway and bus, if you need to end the conversation, and go on your way. You can get a job near there too, to pay for the sandwich. $1600 a month or so will get you a small studio apartment nearby, if it works out.
Let us see a whole lot of dark-eyed beauties whispering to nice young men in the shadows of the palms inside the Galleria on 57th between, I think, Lexington and Park, on the uptown side of the street. Wear some black and put your hair up, honey. Wear a nice sandal, no track shoes allowed.
