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346 1939 FALL CONVENTION
offices. Trains directly to the Fair may be taken from the Pennsylvania Station, opposite the Hotel: time, 10 minutes; fare, lOjf. Among the exhibits at the Fair are a great many technical features of interest to motion picture engineers.
Points of Interest
Headquarters and branch offices of practically all the important firms engaged in producing, processing, and exhibiting motion pictures and in manufacturing equipment therefor, are located in metropolitan New York. Although no special trips or tours have been arranged to any of these plants, the Convention provides opportunity for delegates to visit those establishments to which they have entree. Among the points of interest to the general sightseer in New York may be listed the following:
Metropolitan Museum of Art. — Fifth Ave. at 82nd St.; open 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. One of the finest museums in the world, embracing practically all the arts.
New York Museum of Science and Industry. — RCA Building, Rockefeller Center; 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. Exhibits illustrate the development of basic industries, arranged in divisions under the headings food, industries, clothing, transportation, communications, etc.
Hayden Planetarium. — Central Park West at 77th St. Performances at 11 A. M., 2 P. M., 3 P. M., 4 P. M., 8 P. M., and 9 P. M. Each presentation lasts about 45 minutes and is accompanied by a lecture on astronomy.
Rockefeller Center. — 49th to 51st Sts., between 5th and 6th Aves. A group of buildings including Radio City Music Hall, the Center Theater, the RCA Building, and the headquarters of the National Broadcasting Company, in addition to other interesting general and architectural features.
Empire State Building. — The tallest building in the world, 102 stories or 1250 feet high. Fifth Ave. at 34th St. A visit to the tower at the top of the building affords a magnificent view of the entire metropolitan area.
Greenwich Village. — New York's Bohemia; a study in contrasts. Here are located artists and artisans, some of the finest homes and apartments, and some of the poorest tenements.
Foreign Districts. — Certain sections of the city are inhabited by large groups of foreign-born peoples. There is the Spanish section, north of Central Park; the Italian district near Greenwich Village; Harlem, practically a city in itself, numbering 300,000 negroes; Chinatown, in downtown Manhattan; the Ghetto, the j Jewish district; and several other such sections.
Miscellaneous. — Many other points of interest might be cited, but space permits only mentioning their names. Directions for visiting these places may be ob j tained at the Convention registration desk: Pennsylvania Station, Madison Square, Union Square, City Hall, Aquarium and Bowling Green, Battery Park, Washington Square, Riverside Drive, Park Avenue, Fifth Avenue shopping dis j trict, Grand Central Station, Bronx Zoo, St. Patrick's Cathedral, St. Paul's | Chapel, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Trinity Church, Little Church Around the Corner, Wall St. and the financial district, Museum of Natural History, \ Columbia University, New York University, George Washington Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, Triborough Bridge, Statue of Liberty, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Holland Tunnel.