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Reminiscing about NYC’s golden age — and some ideas to help Mamdani with his budget woes

Our golden city’s tarnished

Back maybe 75 years when NYC was 18-karat gold in the USA:

Stores had shoppers on all floors. Tiny TV sets presented “Juvenile Jury” followed by Steve Allen with Guy Lombardo. And Barbara Walters’ showbiz father Lou’s B’way nightclub the Latin Quarter opened his new Parisian revue, “The Loveliest Girls in the World.” Jackie Gleason was hustling Capitol Records’ “Music to Make You Misty.” Greta Garbo was moving into her East 52nd Street apartment. Yul Brynner did a stop-in at the Waldorf barber shop. Sutton Place’s Anne Baxter watched the boats and barges trafficking the East River. Rosalind Russell, after starring in B’way’s “Wonderful Town,” was shopping in Saks.

My own old notes turned up notes about Sonja Henie’s ice show at the Garden, Louis Prima and Keely Smith headlining the Paramount and thriving........

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