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Yes, but some of the people I've known in that area have had a concern for . . . (cross talk)
No, none of them has done anything except in one block - one end of a block and planted with trees, one end, that's all.
Now there are some people called Kabler, who I understand are going to do 12 blocks, which is a benefaction, it's simply marvelous, and I hope it starts to happen. I must invite them here, because maybe they'll really do it.
They'll do 12 blocks of what?
Plant flowers three times a year. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
Yes.
Wonderful. But it's so little money for the City, and it's our face to the world, really, isn't it, Park Avenue? It has the heaviest traffic of New York City.
Uh uh.
It's what people can drive on if they come from Amsterdam to see what it's like in another world, you know.
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