Klein's On The Square, Mays on 14th Street, Ripley's Believe it or Not (all on Union Square).
Macy's, Gimbels and A&S all in the same block.
The Central Park Zoo for free. The Playboy Club and its weak imitation The Gaslight Club. Central Park when you could play sandlot and pick-up football without getting a ticket.
Black and White shakes or Nedicks in the paper cup in the metal base from the hotdog stands actually on the subway platforms....
The Bronx and Zoo were clean, the Mets played at the Polo Grounds and the Giants at Yankee Stadium.
You could buy all kinds of schlock on 42th Street and never get panhandled or mugged.
How could we forget Horn & Hortacks(?)?
Broadway was entertaining and the big fancy movie houses.
A round trip student ticket to the city on the NY Central cost me all of $0.50.