and culinary organizations have their headquarters in the building at 349
West Forty-fourth Street.

The Seventh District Magistrates Court, better known as the Men's
Night Court, occupies the gray stone building at 314 West Fifty-fourth
Street. Petty offenders in Manhattan and the Bronx are brought before a
magistrate who presides here from eight o'clock in the evening to one in
the morning. Before rubbernecking was officially discouraged, Park Ave-
nue in evening dress used to drop in to gape at the tragic parade of
drunks, panhandlers, pickpockets, wife beaters, and brawlers.

The clubhouse of the American Women's Association, 353 West
Fifty-seventh Street, was completed in 1929 from designs by Benjamin
Wistar Morris at a cost of eight million dollars. This imposing twenty-
seven-story structure is open to transients and non-members. Miss Anne
Morgan heads the board of governors of the association, one of the most
influential women's organizations in the country.

Roosevelt Hospital, which occupies a group of red-brick buildings
along Ninth Avenue from Fifty-eighth to Fifty-ninth Street was founded
in 1871. Nationally known for its surgical work, the hospital has 387
beds, and treats in its clinics some fifty thousand patients a year. A monu-
ment stands on the grounds, erected to the memory of James Henry Roose-
velt (1800-1883), "the generous founder of the hospital."

A Negro community, west of Columbus Circle, has been popularly
known since the turn of the century as San Juan Hill, a folk tribute to
the exploits of Negro soldiers in the Spanish-American War.

Garment Center and Vicinity

Area: 25th St. (6th to 8th Ave.) and 30th St. (8th to 9th Ave.) on the south to
39th St. (6th to 7th Ave.) and 41st St. (7th to 9th Ave.) on the north. Map on
page 149.

New York's garment center, housing the city's foremost industry, and
America's fourth largest, crowds the middle of Manhattan between Sixth
and Ninth Avenues, from Thirtieth to Forty-second Street. Here are pro-
duced three out of four of the ready-made coats and dresses, and four out
of five of the fur garments worn by American women. Immediately north
of Twenty-fifth Street, between Sixth and Eighth Avenues, are the quarters
of the fur industry. The wholesale flower market borders Sixth Avenue
from Twenty-sixth to Twenty-eighth Street. In the mid-section of the dis-
trict are the Pennsylvania Station, hotels, and the city's most concentrated