Sailors Bound for Manhattan guide-history-buffs he earned more than $100

he earned more than $100

was first constructed in 1858 as a five-story building by Thomas R

then Senate majority leader

Higher floors also come with more privacy

Sailors Bound for Manhattan guide-history-buffs he earned more than $100In a scene seemingly right out of "On the Town," sailors on leave head for good times in Manhattan in October 1941. After being cooped up in giant rolling tin cans for weeks, sailors were known to visit strip clubs, bars, tattoo parlors and girls, with Times Square one of their first ports of call. This photo appeared on the cover of The Times Magazine with the headline, "Men of our first line of defense" and the caption, "Shore party for Manhattan,"